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Recreating 3,500-year-old Egyptian Perfume
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 03:00 PM
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The Ancient Egyptians cherished their fragrant scents, too, as perfume flacons from this period indicate. In its permanent exhibition, Bonn University's Egyptian Museum has a particularly well preserved example on display. Screening this 3,500-year-old flacon with a computer tomograph, scientists at the university detected the desiccated residues of a fluid, which they now want to submit to further analysis. They might even succeed in reconstructing this scent.
<snip> Hatshepsut's perfume is also presumably a demonstration of her power. "We think it probable that one constituent was frankincense – the scent of the gods," Michael Höveler-Müller declares. This idea is not so wide of the mark, as it is a known fact that in the course of her regency Haptshepsut undertook an expedition to Punt – the modern Eritrea, and the Egyptians had been importing precious goods such as ebony, ivory, gold, and just this frankincense, from there since the third millennium B.C. Apparently the expedition brought back whole frankincense plants, which Hatshepsut then had planted in the vicinity of her funerary temple.
Read the complete article: Science Daily
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What alchemists got right
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 03:00 PM
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 By Stephen Heuser
<snip>A new generation of scholars is taking a closer look at a discipline that captivated some of the greatest minds of the Renaissance. And in a field that modern thinkers had dismissed as a folly driven by superstition and greed, they now see something quite different.
Alchemists, they are finding, can take credit for a long roster of genuine chemical achievements, as well as the techniques that would prove essential to the birth of modern lab science. In alchemists' intricate notes and diagrams, they see the early attempt to codify and hand down experimental knowledge. In the practices of alchemical workshops, they find a masterly refinement of distillation, sublimation, and other techniques still important in modern laboratories. Alchemy had long been seen as a kind of shadowy forebear of real chemistry, all the gestures with none of the results. But it was an alchemist who discovered the secret that created the European porcelain industry. Another alchemist discovered phosphorus. The alchemist Paracelsus helped transform medicine by proposing that disease was caused not by an imbalance of bodily humors, but by distinct harmful entities that could be treated with chemicals.
Read the complete article: Boston Globe
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"Melencolia" the magic square
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 05:00 PM
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Early in the sixteenth century, the famous German artists and engravers, Albrecht Durer and Lucas Cranach, were influenced to some extent by alchemical ideas and symbolism, but they left no pictorial impression of an alchemist or his laboratory. Durer (1471-1528), one of the two greatest artists Germany has ever produced, was particularly skilled in drawing on the block for the wood-cutter and in engraving on copper with his own unsurpassed hand. In 1513 and 1514 he wrought three engravings on copper that will rank for all time among the world's select masterpieces of this form of art.
There is no evidence that Durer had an acquaintance with alchemy so intimate as, say, that of Chaucer in an earlier age; nevertheless, alchemy formed an essential ingredient of the cultural background of his times. To contemporary men of culture in general, as to the alchemist in particular, the "Melencolia" must have appeared as a rich repository of the pictorial symbolism of alchemy.
Read the complete article: The Alchemy Lab
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What is Prima Matra?
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 04:00 PM
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by Johannine Grove
Prima Matra is an ancient alchemical term that means prime unviolated first matter, and covers any form of matter that is resonant with the original first matter. According to Tehuti /Thoth, originally this planet was entirely a spiritual creation without a matter counterpart, in other words it was pure energy with Divine patternings. As it began to slow down its vibrational frequency, matter began to coalesce from the pure energy patternings. The first matter that did coalesce was absolutely pure, as yet untainted by negative intrusions of human thought or feeling as we know it today. This first matter was called Prima Matra by the ancients.
The forms of Prima Matra we have existent today are less in vibrational frequency than the original Prima Matra, but powerful nonetheless for spiritual transformation and physical healing. As an example you could see the Original Prima Matra as light just beyond the ultraviolet end of the visible spectrum of the rainbow (high frequency), and the forms of Prima Matra with us today as the visible colors of the rainbow (gradients less in frequency, but all still light). This is a very simplified analogy, but it will suffice to explain the main point here.
Read the complete article: Biblioteca Pleyades
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Cordial Waters from the Stillroom
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 03:00 PM
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 by Ivan Day
On their first arrival in England in the late 1400s, distilled cordial waters had been strictly used as alcoholic medicines, prescribed in small doses to invigorate the heart and revitalise the spirits. By 1700, these forerunners of modern liqueurs were being imbibed for their intoxicating effects as well as their medicinal virtues, and most eventually became recreational drinks. Cordials containing precious ingredients like gold and pearls were thought “to renew the natural heat, recreate and revive the Spirits, and free the whole Body from the malignity of diseases”. Such were the now forgotten stillroom preparations like Royal Usquebaugh, a spicy liqueur fortified with flecks of gold leaf, descended from the Aureum potabile (drinkable gold) of the alchemists. Other early varieties of alcoholic cordials were flavoured with spices and herbal ingredients which were thought to settle the stomach after excessive eating, leading to the collective name of ‘surfeit waters’.
Read the complete article: Historic Food
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Crafting a Conjurer's Garden
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Posted by: Ladyhawke4 on Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 09:00 AM
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By: Stephanie Rose Bird
Sacred (sā'krĭd)
adj.
1. Set apart for worship or veneration.
2. Space devoted entirely to a specific purpose.
3. Regarding religious objects, rites, or spiritual practice.
I am a sacred gardener. Through this activity I have gained pleasure, sensual delight, and metaphysical insights, and witnessed a miracle or two. My garden draws energy from daily spiritual practices as a yogini, Green Witchery, and modern day Hoodoo. To assist others who may want to engage in sacred gardening for conjuration I have developed some ideas and items useful for crafting a conjurer’s garden. Naturally, these garden designs ideas share my spiritual grounding and creativity in a single vision, inviting you to utilize your background as well when it comes time for your garden’s actual layout.
Conjure (kŏn'jər, kən-jŏŏr')
1. To summon using supernatural power.
2. To influence or effect by metaphysical means
A sacred garden is typically imbued with animals, spiritual objects, flowers, and trees designed to conjure or invoke energy of specific deities, nature spirits, elementals, deva, ancestors, and varied other orders of beings. By conjuring deity and knowing the language of flowers, trees, certain deities, and elements, a magical garden is within your reach.
Read the complete article: llewellynjournal
Note: ...check out the "Magic and Ritual" album in the Activity books
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Alchemy, Magic, Incubation, Metatron, and Ancestors
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Posted by: Ladyhawke4 on Friday, July 04, 2008 - 09:00 PM
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. -- Albert Einstein
Esoteric, Geometric, and Symbolic writings, act as a "synapse" between the two polarities of intelligence. One finds that a clear logical exposition - be it architectural, scientific or mythological - will suddenly lift and expand into an immense interconnected thought field of an extra rational quality in which the multiple simultaneous meanings, while inwardly felt, may no longer be available to our rational mind.
Those unannounced fluctuations between our two primary nodes of knowing is at first disconcerting, but if one persists, sometimes without really grasping the idea, one can obtain glimpses of a new relationship between inner knowing and sensory based external analysis. ..... Robert Lawler ..Introduction to Symbol and the Symbolique... Schwaller de Lubicz
Ratcheted Seed of Life
Nested Tube Torus
The first seven stages in the Flower of Life Geometries sets the stage for the image to the far left. It is a ratcheted seed of life and suggests the tube Torus [viewed from the side - the smaller center image].
Read the complete article: sangraal
Note: take a walk on the wild side of Sacred Geometry!
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Alchemy and the Alchemists
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 01:00 PM
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by Raymond Buckland
“The Mysteries” . . . we generally think of these in relation to the ancient initiatory rites of Greece and Rome; the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Orphic, the Phrygian, the Mithraic, plus the Egyptian, Tibetan, and others. Yet the term could as well be applied to the writings and diagrams of alchemy. Such have been referred to as “obscure idioms”. The Rosarium philosophorum (or, to give it its full name, Rosarium philosophorum. Secunda pars alchimiæ de lapide philosophico vero modo præparando, continens exactam eius scientiæ progressionem. Cum figures rei perfectionem ostendentibus), published in Frankfort in 1550, stated, “Whenever we have spoken openly we have [actually] said nothing. But where we have written something in code and in pictures we have concealed the truth.” (Weinheim edition, 1990)
It sounds like double-talk but it reflects exactly what the alchemists did. They presented nothing openly; nothing that could be simply and easily stated and understood. Anything that had that appearance should immediately be suspect. Alchemists kept their secrets locked away in a mish-mash of code names accompanied by illustrations that piled symbols on top of symbols. In Alchemy & Mysticism (Taschen, Köln 1997), Alexander Roob says “By imbuing them with a special hieroglyphic aura, the creators of these pictures sought to suggest the very great age of their art and to acknowledge the source of their wisdom: the patriarch of natural mysticism and alchemy, Hermes Trismegistus.”
Read the complete article: Llewellyn
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Alchemy and the Charmed Life
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 02:00 PM
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Lately I have been thinking a bit about alchemy. According to Wikipedia, “Alchemy was known as the spagyric art after Greek words meaning to separate and to join together. ” I even went out and bought a rather thick, wonderfully illustrated book on alchemy several years ago. A whopping impressive 711 colored pages. At the time I told myself I bought it more for the artwork than the knowledge inside it, and that may be so. I am a pretty metaphysically oriented person and the symbols and illustrations that people have used throughout the ages to try to depict the intangible, like the soul, fascinates me somewhat.
Depending on your background, you might picture a bunch of old men toiling over a make shift laboratory, working to make something out of nothing - namely gold or silver from something not as valuable. Or you might think of the search for some substance akin to the Fountain of Youth. But the truth of alchemy is far from these notions, not that I claim to be an expert. Alchemy is a mixture of metaphysics, philosophy, spirituality, metallurgy, chemistry, physics and a secret language of ever changing symbols.
Read the complete article: Softly Dreaming
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Abracadabra
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 11:00 AM
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by Jennifer Emick
The word abracadabra is known universally as the "magic word" of stage conjurers. What little is known is that it is a word of ancient origin, used by genuine magicians from about the third century. The word abracadabra is derived from a Aramaic phrase (Avarah K'Davarah) meaning, "I will create as I speak." (Harry Potter fans might recognize this spelling; however, it is not a curse.) It has appeared in Kabbalistic and Gnostic texts alike. Used in the second century in Talismans against illness, it was written in an inverted pyramid, removing a letter from each end until only one remained. Some, including mystic occultist Aleister Crowley, believed the word to be related to the Gnostic God Abraxas. Crowley "corrected" the spelling to Abrahadabra, in order to achieve a particular gematric value of 418.
Read the complete article: About
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Melusine (Alchemical Siren)
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Monday, February 25, 2008 - 09:00 AM
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 by Jennifer Emick
This creature is associated with numerous stories and legends, and is imbued with symbolic meaning in alchemy.
The most common iteration of the siren is as Melusine, a creature from medieval legend. Melusine (sometimes, melusina) was, according to legend, beautiful woman with a disturbing tendency to transform into a serpent from the waist down while bathing; it is the discovery of this nature that triggers calamity. As the story is most often told, the cursed maiden is discovered in the forest by Raymond, the Duke of Aquitaine, who begs her to marry him. She agrees, on condition that he never disturb her on a Saturday, when she bathes. Raymond later grows suspicious of his young wife, and spies on her- and his shocked reaction reveals his betrayal to Melusine, who transforms herself into a dragon and departs in a shrieking fury. This story can be viewed as a metaphor for sexuality, and the contradictory duality of the female nature as viewed through medieval eyes.
Read the complete article: About
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Splendor Solis
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 01:00 PM
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The Splendor Solis is one of the most beautiful of illuminated alchemical manuscripts. The earliest version, considered to be that now in the Kupferstichkabinett in the Prussian State Museum in Berlin, is dated 1532-35, and was made in the form of a medieval manuscript and illuminated on vellum, with decorative borders like a book of hours, beautifully painted and heightened with gold. The later copies in London, Kassel, Paris and Nuremberg are equally fine.
The work itself consists of a sequence of 22 elaborate images, set in ornamental borders and niches. The symbolic process shows the classical alchemical death and rebirth of the king, and incorporates a series of seven flasks, each associated with one of the planets. Within the flasks a process is shown involving the transformation of bird and animal symbols into the Queen and King, the white and the red tincture.
Read the complete article: Alchemical Texts
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The Ouroboros
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 01:00 PM
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 by Jennifer Emick
The Ouroboros is a greek word, and means "tail swallower." The ouroboros is usually depicted in the form of a snake swallowing its tail, and is usually circular, although it is sometimes depicted in a lemniscate shape. It originated in Egypt as a symbol of the sun, and represented the travels of the sun disk. In Gnosticism, it was related to the solar God Abraxas, and signified eternity and the soul of the world. In alchemy, it represents the spirit of Mercury (the substance that permeates all matter), and symbolizes continuous renewal (a snake is often a symbol of resurrection, as it appears to be continually reborn as it sheds its skin.), the cycle of life and death, and harmony of opposites.
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