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23 ESOTERICA Another take on Alchemy
There is one YouTube channel which stands out for good alchemy discussion: ESOTERICA by Dr. Justi...
22 Alchemy and Greek Medicine
The four-element theory combined with transmutation from Aristotle was adopted wholesale into med...
21 Indian Alchemy
Alchemy on the India subcontinent was largely about health, medicine and longevity. It was tied i...
20 Chinese Alchemy
Chinese alchemy is the first documented, but they always had their own version of alchemy. I don'...
19 Roman Alchemy
What of Roman alchemy? Rome was the inheritor of Greek thinking, and Rome had a close interaction...
18 My Alchemy Journal
I keep an Alchemy Journal. It's like a Grail Diary but more notes and less exploration. I use Liv...
17 Can We Copy the Alchemists?
The question is always asked in discussions of alchemy with students: given what the alchemists d...
16 Stephanos of Alexandria
Stephanos of Alexandria wasn't really from nor lived in Alexandria. He was from Constantinople, i...
15 Hermes Trismegistus
No name is better known in alchemy than Hermes Trismegistus. His name is Hermes. Trismegistus is ...
14 Gnosticism
Gnosticism was a religious way of life, originating in Israel and Egypt just after the time of Ch...
13 Visions of Alchemy
There were many types of alchemy. The most entertaining are the wildly-descriptive allegories, an...
12 The Earliest Chemistry
Two papyri were discovered in Thebes, in Egypt from about 300 A.D. They were part of a trove of p...
11 Cleopatra and the Philosophers
There were three women alchemists early on, all famous. Mary Prophetess (or Maria the Jewess, amo...
10 Translations from the Greek
After Alexander, all trade was done in Koine Greek ("common" or "shared" Greek, pronounced "coin-...
09 Pseudo-Democritus
The first writings we have on Alchemy are recipes. A little obscure philosophy, mostly instructio...
08 Democritus: What Might Have Been
Democritus around 350 B.C. had a nice theory of atoms. He said any bit of matter can be divided u...
07 Astrology and Magic: Status Quo
Alchemy, astrology and Magic always seem to go together. They were combined in the early renaissa...
06 Alexander: Spreading Ideas
Alexander III, son of Philip of Macedon, was at the age of 16 a pupil of Aristotle. As his pupil ...
05 Diogenes: Challenging Philosophy
Diogenes tried hard to challenge the ideas underpinning alchemy. He was a troll, attending lectur...
04 Aristotle
Aristotle, the pupil of Plato, is considered one of the best minds the world has every produc...