Alchemy: The Hermetic Art

At the lowermost point of the ethereal cosmological ladder lies the passive, feminine pole. Anyone

Perhaps the esoteric worldview is encapsulated best by a sixteenth-century alchemo-mystical didactic treatise entitled the

For centuries, people in the ancient world believed that water could be transmuted into air

  The formulation of the four ethereal elements of fire, water, earth and air is

Fire is the most revered of the four ethereal elements. In ancient times, its inextricable

In the esoteric language, the four elements are not to be confused with the four

In contemporary times the word “alchemy” is most often connected with a transformation or change

Other than adding credibility to the Hermetic tenet of “what is above is like that

Much speculation surrounds the Minoan civilisation, especially when it comes to issues surrounding racial identity

To understand the motivation behind alchemy we must travel back to the second century ce,