The Timeless Wisdom of the Turba Philosophorum: A Guide to Unlocking Hermetic Principles In a world increasingly thirsty for profound knowledge and spiritual development, the “Turba Philosophorum” offers a window into a bygone era of timeless wisdom. This text, one of the oldest known works of alchemy in both the Western and global esoteric traditions, […]
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THE AURORA OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. BY THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS. WHICH HE OTHERWISE CALLS HIS MONARCHIA. Theophrastus Paracelsus “The Aurora of the Philosophers” by Theophrastus Paracelsus is a key work of esoteric and spiritual development that opens the door to hermetic philosophy and the mysteries of alchemy. Paracelsus, a pioneer of the Renaissance, links the material transmutation
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BASIL VALENTINE HIS TRIUMPHANT CHARIOT OF ANTIMONY with Annotations of Theodore Kirkringus (1678) At the heart of the spiritual and esoteric traditions, Basil Valentine’s “Triumphal Chariot of Antimony” stands as a key text bridging the gap between the ancient art of alchemy and the modern quest for spiritual enlightenment. This monumental work, embedded in the
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SECTION I. Even thus saith Hermes: Through long years I have not ceased to experiment, neither have I have spared any labour of mind And this science and art I have obtained by the sole inspiration of the living God, who judged fit to open them to me His servant, who has given to rational
VI. THE ALCHEMICAL LABORATORY WE went through a beautiful and broad corridor, all along whose sides stood finely executed marble statues representing the gods and goddesses of antiquity, and busts of the heroes of olden times. “These statues,” my companion remarked, “represent the elemental principles and powers of nature, and they were thus personified by
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Chapter Eight ALCHEMY Quæ sunt in superis hac inferioribus insunt; Quod monstrat coelum, id terra frequenter habet. Ignis, Aqua et Fluitans, due sunt contraria; Felix talia si jungis, sit tibi scire satis. ALCHEMY is that science which results from a knowledge of God, Nature, and Man. A perfect knowledge of either of them cannot be
Vade retro satanas. Nunquam mihi suade vana. Sunt mala quæ libas. Ipse venena bibas. Chapter Six PSEUDO-ROSICRUCIANS—IMPOSTORS AND FOOLS The fool’s paradise is the world of self-created illusions, without the recognition of the underlying eternal truth. THE Devil is God inverted. Falsehood is truth perverted. The spirit produces the form to be its true image;
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Chapter Four AMONG THE “ADEPTS” A BELIEF in the existence of persons endowed with abnormal or extraordinary psychic faculties or magical powers, by which they can produce wonderful effects, such as are not to be explained by the commonly accepted theories of external science, is nothing new. The Bible and the “Acta Sanctorum” are full
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Freher’s Process in the Philosophical Work The Process in the Philosophical Work considered as thoroughly analogical with that in Man’s Redemption through Jesus Christ; and represented by positions given thereof, as to its principal points in Behmen’s Signatura Rerum, chapters, vii, x, xi, xii. 1. Adam’s primeval state in Paradise, and the manner of his
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PART I THE ROSICRUCIANS AND THEIR SECRET DOCTRINE The student of the history of occultism and the esoteric teachings, and even the average reader of current books and magazines, finds many references to “The Rosicrucians,” a supposed ancient secret society devoted to the study of occult doctrines and the manifestation of occult powers. But when
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