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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged alchemy.
An essay on alchemy as a symbolic language of ethical refinement, exploring the athanor, the operations of the Great Work, and the secret fire of the human will.
Read essay →An essay on the Book of Tobias, apocryphal among the Hebrews and deuterocanonical among Catholics, and on the angel Raphael as master of a spiritual pharmacopoeia where poison becomes remedy.
Read essay →An essay on the serpent as a universal symbol of healing and transformation, from the bronze Nachash in the Hebrew Bible to the staff of Asclepius, read in the light of Hermeticism and alchemy.
Read essay →An essay on salt as a symbol of alchemical fixation and the permanence of the pledged word, between Kabbalah, biblical tradition, and the ethics of covenant.
Read essay →An essay on how the alchemical axiom solve et coagula illuminates the processes of dissolution and ethical reconstruction that run through ordinary life, from work to mourning.
Read essay →An essay on the doctrine of the four elements in the Western hermetic and magical tradition, exploring its philosophical roots, its spiritual symbolism, and its meaning for the inner quest of the serious student of the occult.
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