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“The Sephiroth are also imagined as ten shells or casings around the innermost core of En Soph, the formless and ineffable centre of all being.

The Cabbalists called meditation on this Nothing-in-Everything, extrapolating from a verse in the Song of Solomon (6, 11), "Going down into the garden of nuts".

Shakespeare refers to this when he has Hamlet say, "O God! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space".

And Joyce in Finnegans Wake:

"Mark Time's Finist Joke.

Putting Allspace in a Notshall".

Image: Sephiroth scroll, Poland, 19th century.

From “Alchemy & Mysticism” by Alexander Roob (2011).

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Verrdette's Lore of Lords/Reference hub (Carcosa AU)

|will be updated as I learn more|

Status: 8/21 I have learned the anatomical contents of each "bodily humour," these will be the source of each Lord's magic. Learned about the City of Carcosa and the King in Yellow. Rereading SCP 2264...

My Lords:

Albedo / Phlegmatic water 🜄 (praying mantis) phlegm

Nigredo / Melancholic earth 🜃 (locust) black bile

Citrinitas / Choleric fire 🜂 (giant hairy scorpion) yellow bile

Rubedo / Sanguine air 🜁 (dragonfly) blood

Long, long ago the four Lords lived in harmony, then everything changed when the Earth Lord attacked. For more lore of the Carcosa AU, read below

Disclaimer - you may use this lore yourself, just credit this post. None of this is canon to scp, just a fun little set of ideas in my brain. To make it simple, let's call it the Carcosa AU. Credits to Metaphysician for creating Alagadda! Alagadda (Human name: Carcosa) - An ancient city whisked away into a role of an interdimensional nexus, where its inhabitants are cursed to live and rot, but death is nonexistent.

The Tale of the Black Death - A prophecy foretold by Alagaddans, often in jest and mockery at death. There are two versions of the prophecy, one false and the other true: The tale depicts the god of Death vanquished by the ascension of the Hanged King and the City of Alagadda. With the philosopher's goblet, Death cannot take them.

(the rest is WIP) The Court - The Hanged King - The Ambassador - (will be researching the King in Yellow) The Four Lords of Alagadda - (trying to figure out how to organize their lore in tumblr) Death - The Black Lord -

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For a more general understanding of these four temperaments (without the mess of Wikipedia), refer to this small document.

p.s. to this document, I am Melancholic/Phlegmatic. How silly. Have a go if you wish.

I am currently studying this book - The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy & Mysticism by Alexander Roob - It's a collection of significant works concerning Opus Magnum. Beware: the information is as shallow as Rubedo, so if you're looking for long alchemy procedures, it's best to search it on your own if you are short on cash. Even then, I still highly recommend it. It's a great historical read.

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my self appointed reading list for my upcoming art and spiritualism class (aka very basic western occultism/neoplatonic philosophy/(art) history study guide)

Ordered in a very lose timeline based on subject matter if it is a scholarly work or date written if it is a primary source:

• Living Theurgy - Jeffery S. Kupperman

• Corpus Hermeticum - Translated by G. R. S. Mead

• The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels

• The Book of Enoch the Prophet - Translated by R. H. Charles

• The Picatrix - Translated by John Michael Greer

• Mystical Origins of the Tarot - Paul Huson (indulgently rereading lol)

• Three Books of Occult Philosophy - Cornelius Agrippa

• Alchemy and Mysticism - Alexander Roob

• The Key of the Mysteries - Eliphas Levi

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2 4 14 and 16 for the asks ily gay bitch

IL2 GAY BITCH!

2- Album of the year?

EEUUURRRGHHHHH Nile’s ‘Vile Nilotic Rites’ I’d say. Not my most listened to but it bops so who gaf honestly

4- Movie of the year?

Blade. Watched it for the first time this year! And I’m obsessed because that shit so corny

14- Favorite book you read this year?

Alchemy and mysticism by Alexander Roob! Still getting through it though LMAO

16- Post a picture from the beginning of the year.

Stack on himb

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Here's the rest of my luggage I've been carrying around. I hope it relieves me to share that. I surely can't talk to the police, or show my face, or reveal any other information. But I wish to not be all alone in this.

Transcript of the first page: This is Fayolah's second mail I had access to. She talked about her collegue scanning two pages for her and she attached that to the mail. The two pages contain one head that looks...kinda evil or at least mean spirited with three knives(?) surrounding it, and the other image is the symbol I've seen- in Vasiley's faxes to Werner von Croy. I also see Lux Veritatis next to it. So- does Vasiley skinwalk an ancient Templar club now? Or is it just an aesthetic choice to pick their symbol? Or, tinfoil: is he related to them in any way?

Transcript of the second and third page: Here's the list I found with books on alchemy and magic by another friend of Margot, Alessia. None of the books is available in my library and I hope to get to read them online. If you want to support my research and help me, you're welcome to look for clues there, too.

Leah DeVun: Prophecy, Alchemy and the End of Time, John of Rupecissa in the late Middle Ages

Richard Kieckhefer: Magic in the Middle Ages

Stepfen A Mitchell: Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages

Michael David Bailey: Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Consise History from Antiquity to the Present

Arthur Versluis: Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esotericism

Mark Stavish: The Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing & the World of Natural Magic

Robert Allen Bartlett: Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy

Stanislas Klossowski De Pola: Alchemy: The secret Art

Alexander Roob: Alchemy & Mysticism

Transcript of the fourth and fifth page: Here I start the introduction to alchemy before I get more into detail. Alchemy is an Arabic name, coming from the word al-kimiya and the Greek word khumeia. It's a branch of natural philosophy with parts of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, mysticism, spiritualism and art. The idea is not to only purify materials and perfect them but to also cleanse the body, soul and mind. Most commonly alchemy is associated with the search for immortality, a panaceas (cure for all diseases) and to create gold out of base, cheaper metals. The first ever known alchemist was a woman: Mary the Jewess. She had a lot of other names like Maria Hebrea (meaning the same as Jewess), Mariya the Sage (Mariya is the Arabic spelling of Maria) and Miriam the Prophetess. A guy named Zosios of Panapolis wrote abouther in a text called "On Furnuces and Apparatuses". She described different metals like sexes in mammals as female or male. By melting they would eventually receive gold.

Transcript of the sixth and seventh page: Her apparent slogan was "Join the male and the female and you will find what is sought" and she also invented tools for alchemy:

the Tribikos, an alembic with three arms used for destillation, still used today

the Kerotakis, a device to collect vapors and heat substances

Mary's bath, a container that limits maximum temperature.

Arab people also called her "Daughter of Plato", used in alchemic texts to describe white sulfur. Her main goal was to create gold, the process is called Chrysopoeia, trying to get gold out of non-noble metals.

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Nice counter point to this is the “ideal” alchemical being containing both masculine and feminine attributes so therefore HRT actually creates magic. What’s more, the concept of both trans people and transitioning is ancient and almost always magical. Early Christians conceptualized Adam as what we today would class as intersex or non-binary, and after the fall have been looking for a way back ever since. Looking at the historic evidence, the argument isn’t that the transition took anything away from magic, but rather is the realization of it.

Idk about anyone else but listening to a trans person get to talk about their transition does make me believe in magic again so I could certainly believe it.

sources:

books: Practical Alchemy by Brian Cotnoir (don’t terribly recommend), Alchemy and Mysticism by Alexander Roob, and The Shape of Sex by Leah Devun (highly recommend)

podcasts: Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! by Liv Albert queer compilation episodes

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La divina agua mercurial, Baro Urbigerus, Besondere Chymishe Schriften, Hamburgo, 1975.

Empédocles enseñó también que toda vida es el producto del movimiento nacido de la tensión entre las dos fuerzas polares del amor y la disputa. En el opus magnum, esas fuerzas corresponden a las dos operaciones sucesivas de disolución y coagulación, dispersión y fijación, destilación y condensación, sístole y diástole, <<sí>> y <<no>> en todas las cosas (J. Boheme). A su vez corresponden con los dos agentes bipolares de la alquimia árabe: el mercurio filosófico y el azufre, el sol y la luna, la esposa blanca y el esposo rojo. Pero el punto culminante de la obra es la conjunción, es decir, la unión de los principios masculino y femenino en los desposorios del cielo y la tierra, del espíritu ígneo y la materia acuosa (el término latino mater, madre). El producto de este coito cósmico es el lapis, el <<hijo rojo del sol>>.

Alquimia & Mística, Alexander Roob.

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History of Press Graphics: The Golden Age of Graphic Journalism 1819 - 1921 by Alexander Roob

http://www.afnews.info segnala: Taschen ha pubblicato questo grande volume Press Graphics: The Golden Age of Graphic Journalism 1819 – 1921 di Alexander Roob. Copre l’esplosione dell’illustrazione di giornali in Europa e negli Stati Uniti nel XIX secolo e la sua influenza sull’arte moderna. È stato recensito da Olivia Ahmed per il Quentin Blake Center for Illustration qui… Vedi il resto su Mike…

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La Noche De Los Libros..Alquimia Y Mistica de Alexander Roob

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Alchemy is one of the most misrepresented and poorly understood aspects of Western Esotericism. This video takes a look at five misconceptions from both the scientific dismissal of alchemy to the purely spiritual/psychological interpretation of its processes and symbolism.

Recommended Reading:

Linden, Stanton J. (ed.) The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. 978-0521796620. Nicely edited collection of alchemical primary texts.

Principe, Lawrence. The Secrets of Alchemy. 978-0226103792. An up-to-date history of alchemy.

Newman, William. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire" 978-0691174877. Cutting edge research on alchemy in the 17th century. An amazing wok of scholarship.

Roob, Alexander(ed.) Alchemy & Mysticism. 978-3836549363. A collection of alchemical imagery and symbolism, also a nice coffee table book!

Spiritual / Psychology School of Interpretation

Atwood, Mary Anne. A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery….(many re-print editions). The first text to introduce the ‘spiritual interpretation” of alchemy.

Eliade, Mircea. The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy. 978-0226203904. Religious-philosophical interpretation of alchemy.

von Franz, Marie-Louise. Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology. 978-0919123045. An introduction to the Jungian psychological interpretation of alchemy.

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Liked on YouTube: Alchemy - Maria the Jewess & Prophet - Greco Egyptian Alchemy & Hermetic Philosophy || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRb9vwk14OA || Perhaps the longest refenced alchemist in history was Mary or Maria the Jewess who lived in Egypt around the year 200 ce. In this episode of Esoterica we explore the legends, inventions, and alchemical theories developed by this early female scientist and mystic. Recommended Readings: Patai - The Jewish Alchemists - 9780691006420 Berthelot - Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs - https://ift.tt/k8IjopL Maier - Atalanta Fugiens - https://ift.tt/a9cgTCE Artis Auriferae - https://ift.tt/wcOZN6C Linden, Stanton J. (ed.) The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. 978-0521796620. Nicely edited collection of alchemical primary texts. Principe, Lawrence. The Secrets of Alchemy. 978-0226103792. An up-to-date history of alchemy. Newman, William. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire" 978-0691174877. Cutting edge research on alchemy in the 17th century. Roob, Alexander(ed.) Alchemy & Mysticism. 978-3836549363. A collection of alchemical imagery and symbolism, also a nice coffee table book! Spiritual / Psychology School of Interpretation Atwood, Mary Anne. A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery….(many re-print editions). The first text to introduce the ‘spiritual interpretation” of alchemy. Eliade, Mircea. The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy. 978-0226203904. Religious-philosophical interpretation of alchemy. von Franz, Marie-Louise. Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology. 978-0919123045. An introduction to the Jungian psychological interpretation of alchemy. #alchemy #marythejewess #hermetic

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“A ladder appeared to Jacob in a dream, "and the top of it reached to heaven: and the angels of God were going up and down on it". (Genesis 28, 12)

For Blake, the image of Jacob's Ladder as a gate to heaven was closely allied to the anatomy of the ear, whose passages he calls “The endlessly twisting spiral ascending to the Heaven of Heavens.”

According to Swedenborg, with whose writings Blake was familiar, the "opening of the inner ear" is the precondition for making contact with the higher worlds.”

Image: “Jacob's Ladder” by William Blake c. 1800

From “Alchemy & Mysticism” by Alexander Roob (2011).

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Franciscus Aguilonius, Optica, 1611

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Aurora

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Flesh and Bone S01E03 (Reconnaissance)

Book title: Alchemy & Mysticism (2014) by Alexander Roob

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Alchemy & Mysticism by Alexander Roob 

This book will be a serious source of research for me concerning my planned research on symbolism within alchemy and how it is visually represented.