RECOMMENDED ALCHEMY WEBSITES
The origin of the tablet is lost in legends that go back
more than 10,000 years. But its words have survived.
The roots of alchemy go back at least 3,500 years to
Egypt and Phoenicia.
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Richard
Hoagland's Enterprise
Mission Archaeological Investigation reviews the "curious"
activities of the Egyptian government to conceal the excavation of the Hall
of Records on the Giza Plateau.
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The Akhet
Hwt-Hrw Temple and School is a spiritual organization
dedicated to following the legacy of ancient Egypt. The website is devoted
to information about the goddess Hathor and Akhet philosophy.
The heyday of traditional alchemy in medieval Europe
spread seeds of enlightenment throughout the world.
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Adam
Maclean's Alchemy Web contains
original alchemy manuscripts, artwork, drawings, interpretations, and
history. This website is one of the best resources for alchemy on the
Internet and is highly recommended.
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Ages of Alchemy covers
the whole range of European alchemy, including its focus on the Elixir of
Health and practical laboratory methods. This is a wonderfully illustrated
site that really evokes the laboratory experience.
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Paracelsus College in
Adelaide, Australia, is dedicated to the "conscious evolution of the
individual within the context of his or her physical existence." Email the
group for more information.
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Giordana Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher by John Kessler
is an excellent summary of the life of the spiritual alchemist who was burnt
at the stake by the medieval Church.
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The Philosophical Research Society was
founded in 1934 by Manly P. Hall to preserve and disseminate ancient wisdom
and alchemical teachings. The website has a library, gallery, and bookstore.
From its origin in Egypt to the Kabbalah, Jewish
alchemists took a pivotal in the development of their Art.
Much of medieval alchemy was really a disguised form of
esoteric Christianity that flourishes to this day.
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The Bible Gateway contains
six searchable versions of the Bible in ten different languages. Searches
may be by word, phrase, or topic.
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Lion & Lamb is
Collins Hamblen' website, which features analysis of Biblical, Hopi, Cayce
and other prophecy to show where the world stands in its own spiritual
transformation.
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The Life and
Works of Hildegard von Bingen is a complete biography and
interpretation of this Christian mystic's profound visions and musical
compositions.
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Christian
Mysticism is a website devoted to the work of St. John of
the Cross, who was known as the Alchemist of the Soul. Also contains guides
to Christian prayer and contemplation.
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Of
True Repentance is a book written by German mystic Jacob
Boehme in 1622 that "shows the way to the internal Kingdom of God." You can
print out the entire translated text.
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Unraveling Wittgenstein's Net
- A Christian Think Tank is an intelligent and entertaining
center for all kinds of views on the meaning of Christianity in our time.
The Gnostics made the principles of alchemy part of their
religion, much to the anger of the Church.
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The Gnostic Friends Network is
a must-see, iconoclastic collection of modern and ancient Gnosis that will
blow your mind if you are not careful!
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The Gnostic
Renaissance Information Project documents the oppression of
Gnostic Christians as well providing links to modern Gnostic sites.
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The Gnostic
Order of Christ provides support and educational material
to those who seek to apprehend spiritual truth through intuitive as well as
rational means.
Islamic alchemists safeguarded and expanded the
alchemical teachings during the Dark Ages.
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Islamic Alchemy is
devoted to the history of Islamic alchemy and the Old Egyptian Science.
Sourced from the Alchemy Web through the Virtual Library for the History of
Science, Technology and Medicine.
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The Religion of Islam is
an in-depth introduction to the history and philosophy of Islam with
sections on alchemy and Islamic science.
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Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi,
the Sufi spiritual alchemist, is featured on links from this page that
include a biography and some of his original poems.
Taoists practice an inner alchemy in which the organs of
the body are vessels of transformation.
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Mountain Wind offers free
information on using breath exercises for personal transformation. They also
publish books on Taoist alchemy and Chi Kung, as well as the newsletter Inner
Alchemy.
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Tai Chi and Chi Kung is
an excellent introduction to these 6,000-year-old practices intended to
perfect body and mind through the alchemistic direction of life force (chi).
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Dhammapada:
Wisdom of Buddha is a translation of sections of the book
Harischandra Kaviratna that describe the principles of Buddhist alchemy.
Hindu alchemists gave the name "kundalini" to the
evolutionary alchemical energy in man.
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Serpentine Power in Greece and India compares the kundalini
experience as it was described in the Greek and Indian traditions. The
Caduceus of Hermes is one symbol common to both.
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Tantra Internet Links has
links to over a hundred websites devoted to Tantric alchemy and the
relationship between sexual energy and spiritual enlightenment.
Forced underground, the Hermetic teachings were
transmitted secretly in a variety of ways.
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The
Hermetic and Alchemical Works of Jason Wolf is a look at
the musings and drawings of an inspired spiritual alchemist and includes an
Alchemy FAQ and articles.
One Spirit Project
Facilitating personal growth and spiritual enlightenment through interaction
and discussion, we encourage new perspectives that will help you find
meaning and purpose in your life. Large resource directory.
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The Occult Glossary is an excellent resource that defines
many of the common terms of the Hermetic tradition from scores of different
spiritual traditions.
- The New
Age Web Works contains information on alchemy, Egyptology,
druidism, freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, shamanism, tarot, wicca, divination,
and other so-called Hermetic sciences.
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The
Hermetic Fellowship Resources Page is a collection of links
to New Age, pagan, Celtic, metaphysical, occult, and other Hermetic sites on
the Internet.
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The Pythagorean
Tarot is an insightful article on the Hermetic origins of
the tarot deck and proposes a Pythagorean deck more in keeping with its true
numerology and archetypal basis.
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TarotConsultant -
A free on-line Ezine for Tarot Consultants and readers, from beginner to
veteran, with articles, spreads, tips and more.
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Create
Your Own Truth is a Wiccan homepage with a collection of
original writings such as the "Chymical Jousting of Brother Persdua" and
articles such as an elaboration on the meaning of Tarot cards.
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Occult World
Ledger reviews and lists books on a number of paranormal
with links to various websites devoted to similar themes.
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Aeon Globe is
a practical spiritual site, developed to promote (self) healing,
self-mastery, inner growth and lust for life. The site includes courses and
information on spirituality, occult sciences, spiritual art, oracles, and
natural therapies.
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Rosicrucian Order (AMORC)
has a multilanguage website geared to seekers of ancient wisdom. The purpose
is "to further the evolution of humanity through the practical application
of spiritual laws."
Paranormal encounters are our personal initiations into
Hermetic reality.
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Haunted Places is
a guide to current paranormal activity, true life experiences, and ongoing
investigations from around the world that features a section on the Alchemy
of the Paranormal.
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The Exceptional
Human Experiences Network (EHEN) offer a platform for
experiencers of a variety of phenomena, including mystical, near-death,
out-of-body, apparitions, angels, and alien encounters.
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Shared Transformation features
personal stories of people experiencing visions, apparitions, religious
awakenings, and other spiritual emergencies.
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The American
Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is the oldest
parapsychological membership organization in the USA. Publishes the Journal
of Parapsychology.
Many altered states of consciousness are alchemical
breakthroughs to a higher reality.
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The About
Living website offers an excellent online guide to
meditation that you can download for free, as well as images of nature
designed to transport you to higher consciousness.
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Dreamgate focuses on
the spiritual meaning of dreams as ways of accessing deeper reality.
Includes an extensive guide to other dream resources on the internet.
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Alternate Realities in Art
and Thought is an unusual website devoted to esoteric
studies and metaphysical reality as expressed in a variety of venues
including art, literature, and the web.
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Astara is a membership
organization and modern day mystery school offering instruction in
metaphysics. Publishes monthly newsletter and provides telephone assistance
for members.
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The website
for Posthuman Philosophy offers
a solution to the mind-body problem as well as therapeutic applications and
sections on Dr. John Dee's Enochian magic and supernaturalism.
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The Council
on Spiritual Practices (CSP) is dedicated to "making direct
experience of the sacred more accessible to more people" through the use of
entheogens (shamanic plants and psychoactive drugs).
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The Violet Flame -
The Alchemist's Dream offers a visualization that
actualizes the inherent alchemy of light in consciousness, making violet not
just a color but an entry to the next higher octave of light.
Carl Gustav Jung spent his life studying alchemy. What he
discovered became a whole new discipline.
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The C.G.
Jung website offers a glossary of Jungian terms, articles
by Jungian analysts, lists of programs in Jungian training, and links to
other Jungian websites.
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Michael
Daniel's Transpersonal
Links contains the most complete listing of hyperlinks to
websites devoted to the study of Transpersonal Psychology.
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The Institute
of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is membership organization
dedicated to studying the nature of consciousness as a gateway to
transformation. Publishes a newsletter and magazine.
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New Thought Movement Homepage contains
a wealth of resources related to the practice of bringing the presence of
the divine into our everyday lives.
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Spagyria and the Alchemist's Dream is
Greek psychiatrist Demys Kyriacou's website on personal transformation.
The alchemical Elixir, that heals and protects all living
things, is made in our own bodies.
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The Alchemical Hypnotherapy
Institute, also known as the Alchemy Institute of Healing Arts, explores
and attempts to awaken the transformative and healing powers of the
subsconscious mind.
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Rejuvenation Integratron is a paper by George Van Tassel,
who invented the mechanical dome (still standing in Mojave Desert) that he
hoped would reverse aging using the principles of the Emerald Tablet.
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Alchemilla Medical Journal is
a website devoted to alchemical healing and includes herbal and homeopathic
medicine, Ayurveda, Vedic astrology, and Chakra medicine.
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The Herbalist-Alchemist website
gives information about herbal extraction and the actions of various herbs
on symptoms of disease and chronic illnesses.
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The Soaps
of Smetana website works with formulations of solar and
lunar thinking in terms of reductionist and holistic approaches to health
issues. It also describes the alchemical process of biodynamic agriculture.
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The Dar'
Shem website is devoted to teaching and spreading knowledge
of a unique form of healing that involves an attunement between practitioner
and patient. It is part of the Sophia tradition and the alchemists at the
Temple of Solomon.
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The Sivasakti website
carries a wealth of information on bodily alchemy, including asanas, yantras
and tantra.
Many scientists acknowledge the universal truths of
alchemy in both the microcosm and macrocosm.
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The Quantum State in
Alchemy is Charles Higgins scientific article on the
alchemical derivation of the elements and ether using quantum mathematics.
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Quantum Physics
Spirituality is a website devoted to quantum healing and
spirituality that views the soul as the smallest unit of quantum physics.
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The Rotation of the
Elements by John Opsopaus describes this key alchemical
transformative process on on all the levels on which it occurs.
Full text versions of important alchemy and related books
and manuscripts.
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An Alchemist's
Treasure is a lucid and deeply meaningful presentation of
texts by Paracelsus, Joachim Tanckivs, and other Arabian and European
alchemists. The philosophical summary of alchemy is brilliant.
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Natural Magic is
a collection of alchemical principles that is an early expression of modern
science. Written by John Baptist Porta (1537-1615), all twenty original
texts are available for reading here.
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Alchemical Texts contains
over 80 original alchemy manuscripts dating from Egyptian writings to the
nineteenth century. The texts are divided into physical and spiritual
alchemy categories.
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John Dee by
Charlotte Fell Smith is a biographical sketch of the great English
mathematician and alchemist who was given a license to practice alchemy.
From the John Dee Society website.
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The Secret
Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky is the classic work that
synthesizes science, religion, philosophy, and the Hermetic tradition.
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Fundamentals
of the Esoteric Philosophy by G. de Purucker is a
wide-ranging history and interpretation of the Hermetic principles that have
become known as the Perennial Philosophy.
Some handy tools and useful avenues for the practicing
alchemist.
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Maranatha Puzzle is
a fascinating website devoted to solving an age-old alchemical mystery with
a 1 million pound reward for those who decipher it!
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Zerotime 1,000,000 Paranormal Links offers
a huge listing of occult, ghost, UFO, and other paranormal sites including
research organizations, magazines and programs, equipment, and breaking
news.
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Occult Search Engine is
an online search page that catalogs Hermetic websites. Included are psychic,
pagan, gnostic, tarot, meditation, Wiccan, herbal, astrology, and other
sources in the Hermetic underground tradition.
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The Open Directory is an
uncensored online search engine that is human-edited and maintained by real
people not computers. It contains many up-front Hermetic and alchemical
sites not listed on other search engines.
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The Symbols
Encyclopedia is the largest online guide to graphic symbols
and ideograms, including Hermetic and alchemical symbols down through the
ages.
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