Akashic Record
(Yoga, Theosophy) A term invented and popularized by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The idea is that the Akasha is a thought substance which can be imprinted by experience, making it possible to retrieve otherwise inaccessible information from the past, such as a person’s past life. This is remarkably close idea to the concept of Jung’s [...]
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Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy
Robert Allen Bartlett
Ibis; 3rd edition (May 1, 2009)
ISBN: 978-0892541508
224 pages
Reviewer: Lupa
Most of the books you’re going to find on alchemy these days talk history, metaphor, or other theoretical concepts. This is one of the very few that goes into the actual practice of alchemy, step by step. Originally self-published [...]
Agnosia
(Gnosticism) The state of not having insight or Gnosis. This is the root for the word “agnostic,” also meaning a person who does not have Gnosis.
Barbelos
(Gnosticism) A very confusing concept due to plethora of ways it has been used. It is masculine gender, but is used to stand for Sophia as a woman who is [...]
June 5, 2009 by Gerald del Campo
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Air
(Alchemy) One of the Four Elements of alchemy believed to carry the archetypal properties of spirit into the visible world. It is linked to the process of Separation and corresponds to the metal Iron.
Cassock
(Ecclesiastic) A full-length gown with sleeves and collar worn priests, bishops and helpers.
Nephesh
(Qabalah) Hebrew The animal soul that corresponds to animal/ vegetable [...]
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From the middle of February through to the beginning of April, I involved myself in a working I designed around the seven steps of alchemy. I had been reading Dennis Hauck’s The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation, and in it he suggested that the seven steps of alchemy could be applied via visualization. [...]
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