Sylvia Rose
Four Humors & Medical Stagnation
The theory of the four humors dominates medicine for two thousand years. Since the time of the ancient Greeks to the 19th century, humor...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 263 min read
Alkanet: Ancient Dye Magic & Medicine
Alkanet (Alkanna tinctoria) is a plant related to borage, also a popular medicinal herb. Alkanet is used in folk magic, alchemy, natural...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 253 min read
Catherine de' Medici & the Occult
Catherine de' Medici is the Queen of France 1547 - 1563 AD. She's been characterized as a "sinister Queen" with notable interest in the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 254 min read
Democritus - Atomic Theory 400 BCE
Democritus, an ancient Greek philosopher, makes a groundbreaking conclusion: matter is fundamentally indivisible. He introduces the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 244 min read
Alchemists & Formulas: Pseudo-Democritus
Pseudo-Democritus numbers among the Alexandrian alchemists and writers, with works appearing in the early centuries AD. Originally...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 236 min read
Hair Loss: 9 Natural Cures of Physician Dioscorides
Hair loss and baldness ( alopecia ) is a fear in ancient times, if hair is a sign of status, youth or virility. First century AD Greek...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 224 min read
Cupellation: Alchemy Process of Metals
Cupellation is an ancient alchemy process used in metal separation. Alchemy comes from metallurgy and early medicine. The processes of...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 224 min read
Agathodaemon: Fire, Silver & Alchemy
Agathodaemon (Agathodiamon) is an alchemist of ancient Alexandria. A snake god protector of the sparkling port city bears the same name....
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 213 min read
Mystique of Nous: Awareness & Perception
Nous is a concept from classical philosophy, equated to intellect or intelligence, and the area of the human mind necessary for...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 213 min read
Stephanus of Alexandria: the Last Intellectual
Stephanus of Alexandria (c. 580 - 640 AD) is a Christian philosopher bringing Alexandrian thought to Byzantine society. Despite moving to...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 214 min read
Olympiodorus Younger: the Last Neoplatonist
Olympiodorus the Younger, a prominent figure in late antiquity, is known as the last of the Neoplatonist pagans in Alexandria, Egypt. On...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 187 min read
Alchemy and the Art of Gold-Making
"Lead is the ancestor of all metals. For gold is not a metal, gold is light. Lead requires only four periods of two hundred years each,...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 174 min read
Hermeticism & Alchemy in Alexandria
Hermeticism and alchemy fall in love in ancient Alexandria , Egypt. Their relationship begins almost 2000 years ago and still prevails...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 175 min read
Alchemy & New Thought in Ancient Alexandria
Alexandria is a sparkling jewel on the Mediterranean Sea. Here, in the early centuries AD, alchemy ascends to a Golden Age. Influences...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 154 min read
Tria Prima: Birth & the Power of Three
In alchemy, triads, threes, triangles, trinities and trios have strong spiritual significance, often associated with mystical number...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 155 min read
Spiritual Alchemy: the Tria Prima
In spiritual alchemy the tria prima is a trio or triad of elements mercury (Hg), sulfur (S) and salt (NaCl). Each element has...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 143 min read
Alchemy Colors: Color Phase Therapy
In alchemy the four colors black, white, yellow and red define phases of psychological growth, enlightenment or physical process as the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 126 min read
Pure Form, Archetypes & Alchemy
Plato's Theory of Forms points to abstract, ideal forms or concepts more real than the world one perceives. Alchemy deconstructs the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 115 min read
Sacred Marriage: Hieros Gamos in Alchemy
The hieros gamos, a sacred or spiritual marriage, involves the union of archetypal figures in ancient rebirth cycle mysteries and in...
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Sylvia Rose
Jul 113 min read
Quintessence: Elemental Life Force
Quintessence relates to the cosmic life force or pure essence of an element, and is common to all living things. It's also compared to...
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