Alchemy - Alchemy Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Overview of Alchemy 2 History of Alchemy 3 Alchemical Philosophy 4 Back to the Middle East 5 Back to Europe 6 Alchemy in the Renaissance Overview of Alchemy In a sense, alchemists, the practitioners of alchemy, can now be regarded as proto-scientistss applying a fusion of science, art, and religion to chemical physics, and alchemy can be regarded as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation of the scientific method. The word alchemy comes from the arabic language al-kimiya or "al-khimiya" (الكيمياء or الخيمياء), which is probably formed from the article al- and the greek word χυμεία (chymeia) meaning "cast together", "pour together", "weld" etc. The common perception of alchemists is that they were pseudo-scientists.
Venus - the second closest planet to the Sun in our solar system In alchemy, the name Venus was used for the metal copper (since its name derives from Cyprus, the island of Venus) Venus de Milo, an ancient sculpture symbolizing an ideal of female beauty Venus, Texas This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Kayaku-Jutsu - study of secret technicques was used when the ninja needed the fire for escape, distract or some other discipline. The secret of this was the alchemy, the ninjas had to expand their mind to get sucess. The used the nature, the earth (chi), for develop Ka (fire). He prepared black podwer and inserted it on eggs, or some other devices where to carry it and get it quickly when it was needeed. So, u have first to try about if u can adquired black power, after that insterted on small eggs and put some lighter little rocks or magnesium, so when its droped hardly it explored,. expanding by this way the smoke and u can hide, run, escape, or attack ur opponent (but remember: the ninja never attacked his enemy unles.
Jan Baptist van Helmont - ferments, and just as diseases are primarily caused by some affection (exorbitatio) of the archeus, so remedies act by bringing it back to the normal. At the same time chemical principles guided him in the choice of medicines--undue acidity of the digestive juices, for example, was to be corrected by alkalies and vice versa; he was thus a forerunner of the iatrochemical school, and did good service to the art of medicine by applying chemical methods to the preparation of drugs. Over and above the archeus he taught that there is the sensitive soul which is the husk or shell of the immortal mind. Before the Fall the archeus obeyed the immortal mind and was directly controlled by it, but at the Fall men received also the sensitive soul and with.
John Dee - mathematician, astronomer, geographer and consultant to Elizabeth I. He was also interested in alchemy, astrology, divination and Rosicrucianism. Born in London. He graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge aged eighteen. He lectured briefly at Cambridge before he left England to study in continental Europe and lecture in Paris and Louvain. He returned to England in the 1540s. In 1553, during the reign of Mary I, he faced a Star Chamber prosecution, accused of black magic, but he was only briefly jailed. When he was released, he became a scientific advisor to Elizabeth I, even deciding on the auspicious date for her coronation in 1558. Travelling widely abroad with a pension from Elizabeth I, and possibly acting as a spy, Dee strove to increase his knowledge and add to his library. His.
Illuminati - with an admonition. Others were not so fortunate. In 1529 a congregation of naive adherents at Toledo was subjected to whippings and imprisonment. Greater rigors followed, and for about a century the alumbrados sent many victims to the Inquisition, especially at Cordoba. The movement (under the name of Illuminés) seems to have reached France from Seville in 1623, and attained some following in Picardy when joined (1634) by Pierce Guerin, curé of Saint-Georges de Roye, whose followers, known as Gurinets, were suppressed in 1635. A century later, another, more obscure body of Illuminés came to light in the south of France in 1722, and appears to have lingered till 1794, having affinities with those known contemporaneously in Britain as 'French Prophets', an offshoot of the Camisards. Of different class were the.
Isaac Newton's occult studies - He worked extensively outside the strict bounds of science and mathematics, particularly on chronology, alchemy and Biblical interpretation (especially of the Apocalypse). It is, however, somewhat anachronistic to assume that the importance he attached to these is closely connected to contemporary attitudes. The work modern observers would call scientific, were perhaps to him of lesser importance. He was of his time, in still placing emphasis on rediscovering the occult wisdom of the ancients. It has been suggested that: Newton believed that Pythagoras must have known about gravity, and even toyed with the idea of including margin notes attesting it. That he for that reason did not use his "fluxions", but geometric proofs which he thought would have been accessible to geometers of Pythagoras's era. That he also believed that Hebrews before.
Voynich Manuscript - or to deduce words from the texts from the plants so illustrated, have failed. Many of the species cannot be recognised. Many seem to be composite: the roots of one species have been fastened to the leaves of another, with flowers from a third. Another series relates to astronomy or astrology. There are recognisable drawings of all the zodiacal constellations, except for Aquarius and Capricorn (January and February), which were apparently lost before the manuscript was discovered by Voynich. Other portions contain circles representing suns, stars, or starburst shapes; their meaning is unknown. Some have claimed that some of these circular drawings represent views through a telescope or microscope; if true, this would suggest an early modern, rather than a medieval, date for the manuscript's origin. Several pages contain small drawings.
Hermes Trismegistus - have been written at the dawn of time, but the classical scholar Isaac Casaubon in 1614 showed that the Greek texts betrayed a vocabulary too recent to be so old. Recent research suggests some of these texts may be of pharaonic Egyptian origin, although most of the "philosophical" Hermetica can be dated to around AD 300. During the Middle ages and the Renaissance, the hermetic scriptures enjoyed great credit and were popular among men of alchemy. The "hermetic tradition" therefore refers to alchemy, magic and the like. See Also Alchemy Hermetic Hermetica Hermeticism Occultism.
Hermeticism - "Thrice-Greatest Hermes," a syncretistic deity who combines aspects of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Hermeticism is also associated with alchemy. These beliefs were influential in European occult lore, especially from the Renaissance forward, when they were revived by people like Giordano Bruno and Marsilio Ficino. Hermetic magic underwent a 19th century revival in Western Europe, where it was practiced by people such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Eliphas Lévi. From the arcane language associated with these beliefs, comes the second meaning: The deliberate use of obscure, convoluted, or esoteric imagery in various arts. See also: Hermetica.
Hermetica - scriptures were rediscovered and repopularized in Italy during the Renaissance and have had profound influence over alchemy and modern magic. See also: Hermeticism References Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction by Brian P. Copenhaver (Editor) ISBN 0521425433 External Links Corpus Hermeticum online.
Hexagram - that the triangle pointing downwards represents female sexuality and the triangle pointing upwards represents male sexuality. The combination represents unity and harmony. In alchemy, the two triangles represent the reconciliation of the opposites of "fire" and "water". The hexagram, like the pentagram, was and is used in practices of the occult as well as Satanism. The G2 root system is in the form of a hexagram. A hexagram is any of the sixty-four sets of solid and broken lines used in the Chinese classic text I Ching. Each of these consists of two trigrams, and may be referred to either by its own name and number or as one trigram over another. The hexagram was a large silver coin of the Byzantine Empire issued primarily during 7th century AD during the.
History of physics - use of gear-trains that pre-dates any other known civilization's use of gears. Regrettably, this period of inquiry into the nature of the world was eventually stifled by a tendency to accept the ideas of eminent philosophers, rather than to question and test those ideas. New discoveries, such as Pythagoras's deduction of the existence of irrational numbers, were suppressed, and technical knowledge was turned increasingly to the development of advanced weapons, rather than experimental investigations of nature. For one thousand years following the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, Ptolemy's (not to be confused with the Egyptian Ptolemies) model of an Earth-centred universe with planets moving in perfect circular orbits was accepted as absolute truth. We should mention physics and astronomy outside Europe at this stage, especially Mesoamerican, Babylonian, Arabic and Chinese.
Vulcan - race in Star Trek The Town of Vulcan, Alberta The City of Vulcan, Romania Vulcan Media, an educational software company from Poland Vulcan, a volcano in New Guinea Vulcan of the alchemists primary 'deity' associated with Paracelsian alchemy This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Vulcan of the alchemists - Paracelsus introduced the mythological figure of Vulcan as the patron deity of alchemy and as symbolic of the hermetic art. To Paracelsus Vulcan was synonymous with both the alchemist/physician’s manipulation of fire, heating and distilling of nature’s properties for medicine, and the transforming power and creative potential locked within Man , the greater invisible Man or anthropos, slumbering within . Alchemy is an art and Vulcan (the governor of fire) is the artist in it: he who is Vulcan has the power of the art…All things have been created in an unfinished state, nothing is finished, but Vulcan must bring all things to their completion. Everything is at first created in its prima material, its original stuff; whereupon Vulcan comes, and develops it into its final substance….God created iron but not.
History of Parapsychology - the time of Galileo (b 1564 - d 1642) to Newton (b 1642 - d 1727), and culmintating in the publication of Newton's Principia in 1687. The British Royal Society, chartered in 1662, was one of the first scientific academies, which began the distinction between "natural philosphers" (later to be termed "scientists" in 1834) and other philosphers. Many of the natural philosphers, including Newton, were adherents of Renaissance magic (alchemy and the like). The period known as the Enlightenment followed in its wake, with its apex in the 18th century, and featured the ideas that life should be lead by reason as opposed to dogma or tradition, and the universe as a mechanistic, deterministic system that could eventually be known accurately and fully through observation, calculation, and reason. As such, the.
High Magick - one may help the World advance spiritually. High magick is not specifically complex, difficult, or structured, although the majority of the individual systems used tend to be so. Thelema, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, and the initiatory and relevatory aspects of Wicca are some examples of high magick. Some people find the term "high magick" misleading, believing it means that this kind of magick is somehow better than "low magick". This is not true. They are merely different. High magick is the alteration of the self according to Will, while low magick is the alteration of one's environment. A self-purification ritual like a Native American sweat lodge is high magick, while a ritual done to bring a bountiful harvest is low magick..
Homeopathy - symptoms are actually the body's way of fighting "dis-ease" (verb not noun.) Homeopathy teaches that symptoms are to be encouraged, by prescribing a "remedy" in minuscule doses that in large doses would produce the same symptoms seen in the patient. These remedies are intended to stimulate the immune system, helping to cure the illness. Current acceptance status of homeopathy Homeopathy has attracted practitioners for more than a century and a half, many of whom have put forth claims of evidence for its efficacy. Homeopathy is rejected as pseudoscience (functioning to some extent through the placebo effect) by the majority of the scientific and medical establishment in the United States and Western Europe. Nevertheless, there is a large market for homeopathic treatments in parts of Europe and in some other nations like.
George Soros - police work, not military action." "An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others,” Soros said. “The Bush administration merely has a narrower definition of self-interest. It does not include the interests of others." Philanthropy Soros has been active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa. Soros' philanthropic funding in Eastern Europe mostly occurs through the Open Society Institute and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names, e.g. the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland. He also pledged an endowment of $250 million to the Central European University (CEU). He received honorary doctoral degrees from the.
Geomancy - was explained as divination (in the same sentence with pyromancy and hydromancy) in the best-selling Travels of Sir John Mandeville (1400), as "geomantie that superstitious arte" in a book of alchemy (1477), and defined in a book of Cornelius Agrippa's magic (1569) as a form of divination "which doth divine by certaine conjectures taken of similitudes of the cracking of the Earthe." In Africa the traditional form of geomancy consists of throwing handfuls of dirt in the air and observing how the dirt falls. In China, the diviner may enter a trance and make markings on the ground that are interpreted by an associate (often a young boy). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "geomancy" appeared in vernacular English in 1362 (vernacular English at this time was the language of the.
