posted January 05, 2012 08:22 PM            

http://www.thebookofaquarius.com/books/a_tract_of_great_price_concerning_the_philosophical_stone

posted January 07, 2012 11:35 AM            

During his time of isolation, Newton was greatly influenced by the Hermetic tradition with which he had been familiar since his undergraduate days. Newton, always somewhat interested in alchemy, now immersed himself in it, copying by hand treatise after treatise and collating them to interpret their arcane imagery. Under the influence of the Hermetic tradition, his conception of nature underwent a decisive change. Until that time, Newton had been a mechanical philosopher in the standard 17th-century style, explaining natural phenomena by the motions of particles of matter.

http://www.alchemylab.com/isaac_newton.htm

Sir Isaac Newton, the famous seventeenth-century mathematician and scientist, though not generally known as an alchemist, practiced the art with a passion. Though he wrote over a million words on the subject, after his death in 1727, the Royal Society deemed that they were "not fit to be printed." The papers were rediscovered in the middle of the twentieth century and most scholars now concede that Newton was first an foremost an alchemist. It is also becoming obvious that the inspiration for Newton's laws of light and theory of gravity came from his alchemical work.

Isaac Newton wrote fellow alchemist Robert Boyle a letter urging him to keep "high silence" in publicly discussing the principles of alchemy. "Because the way by the Mercurial principle may be impregnated has been thought fit to be concealed by others that have know it," Newton wrote, "and therefore may possibly be an inlet to something more noble that is not to be communicated without immense damage to the world if there be any verity in [the warning of the] Hermetic writers. There are other things besides the transmutation of metals which none but they understand." According to B.J.T. Dobbs in The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy (Cambridge University Press, 1984), "The fact that Newton never published a work on alchemy cannot be taken to mean that he knew he had failed [at the Great Work]. On the contrary, it probably means that he had enough success to think that he might be on the track of something of fundamental importance and so had good reason for keeping his 'high silence,' even though there is nothing to indicate that he himself was searching for that mysterious "inlet to something more noble."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wjQ1UmNNQE

*Stephen Colbert interviews Neil, one and a half hours long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

posted January 14, 2012 04:27 AM            

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posted January 14, 2012 09:02 AM            

My chart in alchemy.

Sol in Separation, in house Fixation.
Luna in Distillation, in house Projection.
Mercury in Separation, in house Congelation.
Venus in Fermentation, in house Dissolution.
Mars in Distillation, in house Projection.
Jupiter in Sublimation, in house Congelation.
Saturn in Sublimation, in house Congelation.
Uranus in Incineration, in house Fixation.
Neptune in Incineration, in house Dissolution.
Pluto in Sublimation, in house Congelation.

Scorpio- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_process

In chemistry and chemical engineering, a separation process, or simply a separation, is any mass transfer process used to convert a mixture of substances into two or more distinct product mixtures, at least one of which is enriched in one or more of the mixture's constituents.

Barring a few exceptions, almost every element or compound is naturally found in an impure state. Often these impure raw materials must be separated into their purified components before they can be put to productive use, making separation processes essential for the modern industrial economy.

Virgo- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation

Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in volatilities of components in a boiling liquid mixture. Distillation is a unit operation, or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction.

distillation has a number of applications. It is used to separate crude oil into more fractions for specific uses such as transport, power generation and heating. Water is distilled to remove impurities, such as salt from seawater.

posted January 15, 2012 07:09 AM            

Fermentation is the process of extracting energy from the oxidation of organic compounds, such as carbohydrates, using an endogenous electron acceptor, which is usually an organic compound.

Libra- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_%28chemistry%29

Sublimation is the process of transition of a substance from the solid phase to the gas phase without passing through an intermediate liquid phase. Sublimation is an endothermic phase transition that occurs at temperatures and pressures below a substance's triple point in its phase diagram.

Sagitarius- http://stephanieclement.com/calcinatio.htm

Alchemical fire or calcinatio is the stage of a change process in which refinement is accomplished through heating. Calcinatio is a heating and drying process. Carl Jung spoke of fire as libido or psychic energy.

Standing in the fire means staying with painful feelings until they are fully understood; it means developing the stamina to resist frustration as well as anxiety; it means going all the way through whatever process has gotten us into the fire. If we get too close to the psychic fire, we may back off, thereby failing to complete the lesson of calcinatio. Furthermore, each time we allow ourselves to back away, we create a psychic situation in which we avoid the very process that can make us whole.

Standing in the fire is a metaphor for the melting of illusions concerning the ego (or any other part of the being that has assumed greater importance than it rightfully deserves.) Alchemical firing involves the removal by melting, distillation, evaporation, drying, or burning, of gross impurities, leaving behind a purified metal or compound. Examples of such processes can be found in the smelting of ores into metallic form. Iron is purified and hardened through heating processes to form steels of far greater strength; the psyche is similarly strengthened and hardened through the process of calcinatio.

posted January 18, 2012 09:10 AM            

Congelation is the process by which something congeals, or thickens. This increase in viscosity can be achieved through a reduction in temperature or through chemical reactions. Sometimes the increase in viscosity is great enough to crystallize or solidify the substance in question.

House 3- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_%28alchemy%29

Fixation in alchemy refers to a process by which a previously volatile substance is "transformed" into a form (often solid) that is not affected by fire. It separates the substance or object and puts it back in the same or different shape at a subatomic level.

House 4- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_%28chemistry%29

Dissolution is the process by which a solid, liquid or gas forms a solution in a solvent. For the dissolution of solids, the process of dissolution can be explained as the breakdown of the crystal lattice into individual ions, atoms or molecules and their transport into the solvent.

House 12- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_%28alchemy%29

Projection was the ultimate goal of Western alchemy. Once the Philosopher's stone or powder of projection had been created, the process of Projection would be used to transmute a lesser substance into a higher form, often lead into gold.

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posted April 16, 2012 01:20 AM            

Al/El = Elohim/Jehovah/Yahweh/God Etc

http://www.blueletterbible.org/study/misc/name_god.cfm

Ki-mia = The (study of God's) science of perfecting nature and the (study of God's) art of transformation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_study

The nature study movement (alternatively, Nature Study or nature-study) was a popular education movement in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nature study attempted to reconcile scientific investigation with spiritual, personal experiences gained from interaction with the natural world. Led by progressive educators and naturalists such as Anna Botsford Comstock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Louis Agassiz and Wilbur S. Jackman, nature study changed the way science was taught in schools by emphasizing learning from tangible objects, something that was embodied by the movement's mantra "study nature, not books."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism

Taoism refers to a philosophy and/or religious tradition that emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao, the source and essence of everything that exists.

http://www.chymiabath.com/

Chymia is the subtle shifts in life, externally and internally, that create big change.

http://www.gomemphis.com/places/al-chymia-shrine-temple/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Architect_of_the_Universe

The Great Architect of the Universe (also Grand Architect of the Universe or Supreme Architect of the Universe) is a conception of God discussed by many Christian theologians and apologists. As a designation it is used within Freemasonry to neutrally represent Deity (in whatever form, and by whatever name each member may individually believes in). It is also a Rosicrucian conception of God, as expressed by Max Heindel. The concept of the Demiurge as a grand architect or a great architect also occurs in gnosticism and other religious and philosophical systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge