Alchemy: The Hermetic Art

Maria the Jewess, a legendary alchemist of the first centuries ce, reputedly quoted that “One

  In hindsight, the external articulation and vibrant eccentricity of a vital essence for all

Sulphur first appears as a generative force in an eighth to tenth century tractate entitled

         Titus Burckhardt, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul (Shaftesbury, UK:

Saturn or lead represents the first rupture of the prima materia, the initial expression of

  Hephaestus was the Olympian god of fire and the artisanal crafts, particularly metallurgy which

The formative force of the cosmos actively expressed by the planet Jupiter and passively by

  Comprised of active planetary and passive metallic energies, the Martian formative force stands near

In contradistinction to the other four planetary forces and their metals which symbolise unique ruptures

Thus far we have discerned that the metal gold and the Sun represent the active,