Perhaps the esoteric worldview is encapsulated best by a sixteenth-century alchemo-mystical didactic treatise entitled the Splendor Solis. According to an old legend, the mysterious author of this text, Solomon Trismosin, imparted the secrets of the Philosopher’s Stone and spagyrical methods to Paracelsus of Hohenheim (1493-1541ce), thus enabling him to pioneer the field of iatrochemistry. Comprised of seven individual tracts that … Continue reading Esoteric Symbol Five: The Sun or Gold