In alchemical and Hermetic traditions, suns () are used to symbolize a variety of concepts, much like the Sun in astrology. Suns can correspond to gold...
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Graphical symbols used in astrology and astronomyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Suns in alchemy – Sun symbols have a variety...
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practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts written in Greco-Roman...
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Projection Solution Sublimation Alchemical symbol – 1. Glyphs AGLA Monas Hieroglyphica 2. Imagery Suns in alchemy Undine (alchemy) 3. Visual Symbolism Porta...
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In alchemy, the Magnum Opus or Great Work is a term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone. It has been used...
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Chinese alchemy (煉丹術 liàndānshù "method for refining cinnabar") is a historical Chinese approach to alchemy. According to original texts such as the Cantong...
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Paracelsianism (redirect from Plant alchemy)
mineral components from the ash of the plant. These processes were in use in medieval alchemy generally for the separation and purification of metals from ores...
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Alchemy of Souls (Korean: 환혼) is a South Korean television series starring Lee Jae-wook, Jung So-min, Go Youn-jung, and Hwang Min-hyun. Written by the...
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Alchemy has had a long-standing relationship with art, seen both in alchemical texts and in mainstream entertainment. Literary alchemy appears throughout...
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Hennig Brand (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2021)
substantial, allowing him to pursue alchemy on leaving the army. He was one of the many searchers for the philosopher's stone. In the process, he accidentally...
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Alembic (category Alchemical tools)
originating from Ancient Greek: ἄμβιξ, romanized: ambix, 'cup, beaker') is an alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distillation...
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the alchemical works Splendor Solis and Aureum Vellus. Little is known about Trismosin's life beyond the legendary tales of his journeys found in works...
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Andreas Libavius (section Alchemy)
physician at the Gymnasium in Rothenburg and later founded the Gymnasium at Coburg. Libavius was most known for practicing alchemy and writing a book called...
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Mary the Jewess (section Alchemical philosophy)
other authors in the Greek alchemical tradition. On the basis of Zosimos's comments, she lived between the first and third centuries A.D. in Alexandria....
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Greek alchemist, writer, and philosopher. She experimented with practical alchemy but is also credited as one of the four female alchemists who could produce...
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Philosopher's stone (category Alchemical substances)
The philosopher's stone is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver; it was also known as "the...
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Paracelsus (category 16th-century writers in Latin)
functioned alchemically, that is, they separated pure from impure. The dominant medical treatments in Paracelsus's time were specific diets to help in the "cleansing...
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2021 "Black Hole Sun", by Soundgarden from Superunknown, 1994 Black Sun (alchemy), the sun in alchemical and Hermetic study Black Sun (sculpture), a sculpture...
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Chrysopoeia (category Alchemical concepts)
In alchemy, the term chrysopoeia (from Ancient Greek χρυσοποιία (khrusopoiía) 'gold-making') refers to the artificial production of gold, most commonly...
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Michael Sendivogius (section Sendivogius in fiction)
Patronage: Michael Sendivogius and the Meanings of Success in Alchemy” In Chymia: Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by Miguel López...
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Alchemical Studies produced a number of substances, which were later classified as particular Chemical Compounds or mixture of compounds. Many of these...
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Neidan (redirect from Internal alchemy)
Neidan, or internal alchemy (traditional Chinese: 內丹術; simplified Chinese: 內丹术; pinyin: nèidān shù), is an array of esoteric doctrines and physical, mental...
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alchemists. His alchemical writings attracted attention not only when they were published in the fifteenth century, but also later in the sixteenth and...
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Splendor Solis (category Alchemical documents)
Splendor Solis (English: "The Splendour of the Sun") is a version of the illuminated alchemical text attributed to Salomon Trismosin. This version dates...
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Emerald Tablet (category Alchemical documents)
earliest known versions are four Arabic recensions preserved in mystical and alchemical treatises between the 8th and 10th centuries CE—chiefly the Secret...
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charged with preventing the potentially destructive power of alchemy from being released as it was in the past. Players navigate characters through the game's...
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publications in Analytical Psychology (Jungian Psychology) and Archetypal Psychology. Three of his more well-known publications are The Black Sun. The Alchemy and...
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Ouroboros (category Greek alchemy)
magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and, most notably, in alchemy. Some snakes, such as rat snakes, have been known...
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authorities in alchemy" and "much medieval alchemical material circulated under his name." This "authority" continued in Arabic and Persian alchemical literature...
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Guido di Montanor (section Alchemy)
Philosophorum, is referenced in quotations and extracts in subsequent sources. Di Montanor was a follower of the alchemy of the elixir and mercury alone...
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