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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Alchemy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Alchemy is an early protoscientific practice combining elements of chemistry, physics, astrology, art, semiotics, metallurgy, medicine, and mysticism.
		Chinese alchemy was closely connected to Taoist forms of medicine, such as Acupuncture and Moxibustion, and to martial arts such as Tai Chi Chuan and Kung Fu (although some Tai Chi schools believe that their art derives from the Hygienic or Philosophical branches of Taoism, not the Alchemical).
		Alchemy was kept alive by men such as Nicolas Flamel, who was noteworthy only because he was one of the few alchemists writing in those troubled times.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Alchemy (7604 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Alchemy
		Alchemy in the Western World and other locations where it was widely practiced was (and in many cases still is) closely allied and intertwined with traditional Greek astrology; in numerous ways they were built to complement each other in the search for hidden knowledge.
		Chinese alchemy was closely connected to Taoist forms of traditional medicine, such as Acupuncture and Moxibustion, and to martial arts such as Tai Chi Chuan and Kung Fu (although some Tai Chi schools believe that their art derives from the Hygienic or Philosophical branches of Taoism, not the Alchemical).
		Alchemy was kept alive by men such as Nicholas Flamel, who was noteworthy only because he was one of the few alchemists writing in those troubled times.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Alchemy (4493 words)

	Talk:Alchemy/Deletion - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Alchemy is the integration of knowledge into the practice or art of living.
		Alchemy is the craft that combines the truth of science with the technology to enable that truth.
		Operative alchemy is partly based on paradox and multi leveled symbols - what you refer to as ambiguety and contradiction.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Talk:Alchemy/Deletion (889 words)

	Alchemy - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		The resurgence of alchemy is very much due to the failure and imbalance inherent in left-brain science.
		Alchemy as a holistic science values both intuition and artistic interpretation that is contrary to linear thought processes.
		The agenda of alchemy has always been the furtherance of human knowledge and the integration and improvement of society.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Alchemy (1398 words)

	Relevance of Alchemy
		The idea that alchemy, like operative qabala, is a means of creating a condition which permits access to different levels of energy has been stated by Jean Dubuis at nearly every lecture.
		Alchemy appears to me to be a bona-fide alternative path of western mystics to transform the human psyche.
		Alchemy as a yogic discipline is about discovering that "Point", or Soul within yourself and this is what the ancients meant by the attainment of the legendary "Philosopher's Stone", or Lapis Philosophorum.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/relevanc.html (2110 words)

	Alchemy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		See the main article at astrology and alchemy Alchemy in the Western World and Other locations where it was widely practiced was (and in many cases still is) closely allied and intertwined with traditional Babylonian-Greek style astrology; in numerous ways they were built to complement each Other in the search for hidden knowledge.
		Alchemy: Ancient and Modern, published in 1922 by H. Stanley Redgrove."A brief account of the alchemistic doctrines, and their relations, to mysticism on the one hand, and to recent discoveries in physical science on the Other hand; together with some particulars regarding the lives and teachings of the most noted alchemists."
		Alchemy: Aristotle and Alchemists: "...the chemical skills of ancient people and the elements that were known to them, the ancient Greeks' speculations on atoms and alchemy, its goals and its accomplishments,and its elements before comparing and contrasting Alchemy and chemistry."
	alchemy.iqnaut.net (5362 words)

	Newton's Alchemy, recreated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		There is also an operative and practical alchemy, which teaches how to make precious metals and pigments, and many other things better and more plentifully than they are made by nature." Roger Bacon, 13th century.
		Now in alchemy, "Venus" usually means "copper," "Mars" means "iron," and "Vulcan" means "fire." Hence "Venus" referred to the copper in the alloy, and "Vulcan" to the intense heat used in making it.
		Alchemy and the Art-Nature Debate: Modern society is increasingly apprehensive about the erosion of the boundary between the artificial and the natural.
	www.indiana.edu /~college/WilliamNewmanProject.shtml (1708 words)

	Rosicrucian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The alchemy in the laboratory (the ancestor of modern chemistry), where the ultimate goal was understanding of the laws of Nature in order to aid the individual's quest for perfection, recalls another type of alchemy, the one called spiritual.
		In the point of view of the Spiritual Alchemy [4], the materia prima is the human soul, and about the athanor, it is constituted by the physical body and the subtle bodies.
		The para-Masonic groups may be defined as being late heirs of the alchemy and hermetic knowledge created in the 15th or 17th century and generally speak of a lineal descent from earlier branches of the ancient Rosicrucian Order in England, France, Egypt, or other countries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosecrucian (4857 words)

	Akashic gold and silver prophecy
		Alchemy shall reign in several chemical fields by means of the new catalytic concept.
		Through alchemy we shall have the key to the miracles of Jesus in walking on water, wine making, etc. Through alchemy we shall have rooms heated by a single wand of catalytic power.
		Alchemy becomes operative in the home by means of inventions resulting from it.
	home.earthlink.net /~pcss/akashic.htm (2647 words)

	Alchemy and medieval universities
		The fluid forms of institutionalisation in the teaching of alchemy, which for example may define a tradition of court alchemy, were of a later date, and are still subject to interpretation (although Frederick II's court should be considered as a case apart).
		A radical cause for the exclusion of alchemy from university curricula[1]is to be found in the very nature of alchemic knowledge, which was essentially operative, and for two reasons.
		This is clearly yet another proof that an interest in alchemy was widespread in these circles; a circumstance that helps to explain the frequent prohibitions, as well as the fact that the prohibitions (it would seem) must have been less than effective.
	cis.alma.unibo.it /NewsLetter/101997Nw/cresci.htm (1817 words)

	The Alchemist's Lab
		Alchemy was a protoscientific stew of chemistry, astrology, mysticism, metallurgy, physics, and religion.
		At that time alchemy was a widespread practice: archaeologists have found hundreds of artifacts from alchemical laboratories all over Europe, including England, Norway, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Germany, Austria, and Denmark (as well as Jamestown, Virginia).
		It was the operative and practical aspect of alchemy that Marcos Martinón-Torres, a Ph.D student in archaeological sciences at University College London's Institute of Archaeology, sought in his research.
	www.archaeology.org /0411/abstracts/alchemy.html (531 words)

	Energies in Alchemy and Qabala
		In fact the real work of alchemy or qabala and the real initiation is to go up the levels of the conscious of man, up one by one, so as to become conscious of these inner worlds.
		Subtle energy in alchemy will be the same way: you will make it come down in the same first way, and in no alchemical experiment can you jump a level.
		This may seem far from real alchemy but we will try to show you by experiment that it is possible to have the elements go up step by step.
	www.triad-publishing.com /PON-01.html (1862 words)

	Alchemy Journal Vol.4 No.3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Much of the discrediting of alchemy was related to the lack of serious publications because many of those publications were coarse reproductions made by puffers (false alchemists) from the true and old texts, in which there is a gathering of the preposterous and the ignorance.
		As a practical art, alchemy is based on a conjunction of different theories concerning the constitution of the matter, the formation of inanimate and alive substances, etc.
		Operative alchemy, the direct application of the theoretical alchemy, is the research of the philosophical stone.
	www.alchemylab.com /AJ4-3nf.htm (6254 words)

	Alchemist - SourceryForge
		Gold was one of the easiest metals for prehistoric hominids to work with but the magic or science came with the heating and beating.
		Western alchemy is suffused and diversifies into and influences astrology, tarot, kabbalah, freemasonry, wicca, architecture, art, advertising, NLP and semiotics.
		The whitening, purification is the first stage of alchemical practice in both speculative and operative operations.
	sourceryforge.org /index.php/Alchemist (725 words)

	ALCHEMY
		Amongst the occult sciences, alchemy is nowadays one of the most inspiring, not only because of the countless books that have been written since ancient times, but also due to a desire to know more about the truthfulness of the Philosopher’s Stone, also know as the Universal Medicine.
		Alchemy is the art of perfecting the bodies with the help of nature.
		The operative alchemy - a direct application of alchemical theories - is the search for the Philosopher’s Stone.
	pwp.netcabo.pt /r.petrinus/alchemy-e.htm (893 words)

	The Hermetic Garden
		Alchemy, if viewed as I think it should as a hieratic science, could not possibly share the erroneous dualistic (and rather neurotic) views of the Gnostics.
		Alchemy is evident in the bas-reliefs of Notre-Dame de Paris, in Amiens Cathedral, in Saint Thomas Aquinas Chapel, in the Sainte-Chapelle, only to name a few of the churches described by Fulcanelli in his first work.
		It is an open question whether in fact Hermetical Tradition later passed from operative to speculative masons, but contrary to the opinions of profane historians it is impossible to deny in good faith the not only corporative but profoundly esoteric character of the old Cathedral builders...
	www.ojardimhermetico.com /eng/04alquimia3.html (1903 words)

	Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Alchemy was a part of the curriculum studied by the members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; but, excepted some very concise definitions given in the "Knowledge Lectures" about several terms used in Alchemy, very little was really taught about Alchemy in the Outer Order.
		In fact, Garstin was not really involved with operative alchemy, but rather he practiced "spiritual alchemy" (I believe that a great part of this spiritual alchemy was given to B.O.T.A. through the Alpha Omega's American Temples).
		Another discrepancy of the Z. 2 document with other secret operative alchemical works concerns the exposure of the matter to sunlight and moonlight, the sequences which are not correct.
	www.golden-dawn.com /temple/index.jsp?s=articles&p=alchemy (6466 words)

	Rosicrucians - Crystalinks
		Soon afterwards he embarked to Fes, a center of philosophical and occultist studies, such as the alchemy of Abu-Abdallah, Gabir ben Hayan, and Imam Jafar al Sadiq, the astrology and magic of Ali-ash-Shabramallishi, and the esoteric science of Abdarrahman ben Abdallah al Iskari.
		In the point of view of the Spiritual Alchemy, the materia prima is the human soul, and about the athanor, it is constituted by the physical body and the subtle bodies.
		Para-Masonic groups may be defined as being late heirs of the alchemy and hermetic knowledge created by the original 15th or 17th century "College of Invisibles".
	www.crystalinks.com /rosicrucian.html (3384 words)

	Alchemy
		At this time, the physical man was not so dense and grasping for husks; hence the soul and spiritual part had greater control, and could impart the real, the alchemical side, of Nature to him; hence the Law of Correspondences was understood, and guided the educated in their considerations, researches, and conclusions.
		Alchemy and astrology-- twin sisters--were the parents of the modern offspring, known in chemistry and astronomy as exact science.
		There must be a something to account for this, and this something, ancient Alchemy alone can scientifically reveal and expound; and, this knowledge lies just beyond that line which calls a halt to material scientists, and says: "You can go no farther; this is beyond your purview.
	www.worldspirituality.org /alchemy.html (2907 words)

	Secret Teachings of All Ages: Alchemy and Its Exponents
		Alchemy was more than a speculative art: it was also an operative art.
		It has been said of him that he was "magnus in magia, major in philosophia, maximus in theologia." He was a member of the Dominican order and the mentor of St. Thomas Aquinas in alchemy and philosophy.
		Trismosin claimed to have lived to the age of 150 as the result of his knowledge of alchemy.
	www.sacred-texts.com /eso/sta/sta36.htm (4686 words)

	Isabella and Richard Ingalese by Tim Scot
		The complete library of credible personal experiences with operative alchemy would fit comfortably in a picnic cooler, with plenty of room for your lunch.
		I was originally led to the story of the Ingaleses by a sidebar in the "Alchemy" article of the (landmark) occult encyclopedia, Man, Myth and Magic, originally published in 1970.
		The two or three I've read contain no mention of alchemy at all and indeed are indistinguishable to me from countless other "metaphysical" books which authors seemed to crank out in the early 1900s: vaporous metaphysical theories with no practical application.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/ingalese.html (1950 words)

	taoism
		Here, for the first time, alchemy joins the complex of activities that were supposed to contribute to the prolongation of life.
		Short moral tracts for missionary purposes were yet another popular genre, and, finally, there are innumerable inscriptions from all periods that provide important data on Taoist establishments and their patrons over the centuries.
		Some progress over the ages (for example, in alchemy) can be seen, but the Taoist contribution to Chinese science might be smaller than it has been assumed.
	www.gaiaguys.net /taoismarticle.htm (13724 words)

	THE TAOIST TRADITION IN CHINA:
		The discipline and spiritual focus involved in the laborious manufacture of an elixir was one method of elevating a practitioner’s spiritual state for eventual ascent.
		without the intended spiritual ascent, so few were allowed to practice alchemy, and all such undertakings were rigorously controlled by knowledgeable masters.
		A clear sense of common "Taoist identity" evolved in South China during the Liu-Sung Dynasty of the 5th century.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~kirkland/taoism_outline2005.html (5881 words)

	Ashram Vidya Order
		Their main purpose is to lead the individual being to the revelation of his own Essence, a process of realization that may be achieved through any one of them.
		The first path, expounded by Raphael in an admirable synthesis, presents the traditional stages of Alchemy: Nigredo (“rectification”), Albedo (“separation”), Rubedo (“unification”); a comparison, with the help of diagrams, is also made to Advaita Vedanta and Qabbalah.
		Along the text the subjects are looked at from different viewpoints; there is mention of Alchemy, Qabbalah, Vedanta, Yoga, Plato, etc. This in order to meet the readers’ different qualifications, education, mind structure and specific psychological conditions.
	www.vidya-ashramvidyaorder.org /unitytradition.2.html (1016 words)

	Alchemy and Spagyrics Books
		From our own experience of more than twenty years of practical work and study of alchemy we can tell you without fear of being deceptive that most of the time things in Alchemy are not as they seem.
		Aside from ALKAEST these are not books on operative alchemy, but rather focus generically on its history, which is a good starting point.
		Later on, as your knowledge of Alchemy basics increases after reading some of the principal classic and modern authors you will be ready for the more specific books on the paths of some of the known Adepts.
	pwp.netcabo.pt /r.petrinus/books-e.htm (918 words)

	The Arcane Schools - Part 3 of 7
		In its operations the Society held that as "all things proceed from the Will of one," so all were again resolveable to first principles, and that metals might be separated, refined, and reunited; and they claimed that Moses was an Adept because he possessed the difficult process of reducing the golden calf to a powder.
		The writings of Athenagoras have tracers of Alchemy and the Emperor Caligula is said to have experimented with red arsenick.
		It is stated in a Rosicrucian MS., lying at Cologne under the nom-de-plume of Omnis Moriar, that a Society termed the Magical Union was established at this city in the year 1115.
	www.hermetics.org /yarker3.html (11605 words)

	Masonic Forum Magazine No.6-7 April-May 6001 A.L.
		It is a matter of common knowledge that in the past, some Rozicrucians were engaged in material and operative alchemy in an attempt to obtain pure gold out of ordinary metals (like lead).
		As a matter of fact, there is no evidence according to which the Rozicrucians made a fortune out of these alchemy operations.
		Just like Masonry, which turned from operative to speculative, The Order of Rose Croix is now practising a spiritual alchemy: there is the attempt to transform all flaws into qualities, i.e.
	www.masonicforum.ro /en/nr67/amorc.html (526 words)

	taolit.html
		Further amplifications of this system, which coordinates the movements of the sexual partners with the intricate mechanisms of the cosmos, can be found in another work, the Tung-chen huang-shu (Yellow Writings of Cavern Perfection, TT 1031, HY 1332).
		During the third and early fourth centuries, scores of new scriptures were written dealing with alchemy, herbalism, and new forms of meditation.
		The materials bestowed on Yang concern themselves primarily with visionary med itation practice and forms of meditative alchemy, all imbued with a vision of the stars as the incorruptible gem-palaces and physical embodiments of the celestial hierarchy&emdash; the ultimate goals of man's spiritual quest.
	www.faculty.sbc.edu /goulde/taolit.html (6421 words)

	Thottbot World of Warcraft: Quest: Operative Bijou
		Alchemy Blacksmithing Enchanting Engineering Herbalism Leatherworking Mining Skinning Tailoring
		Bijou is her name - one of our slipperiest operatives.
		I found out she was working for some shady exotic pet dealer out of the Burning Steppes named Kibler, in essence, two timing us.
	www.thottbot.com /index.cgi?q=1734 (200 words)

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