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The nascence of the alchemical tradition in recorded history can be traced as far back as Egypt, beyond that lies the speculative shrouded mists of lost Cultures and starlore. The life stories of the Alchemists suggest that theirs was more of a quest for spiritual enlightenment, immortality, and ascendant transcendence than the quest for a specific linear formula for either a philosophers stone or the material riches of silver and gold. Thoth's Emerald Tablets that were written in Egypt before the great deluge, about the alchemical relationship between the Above and the Below, were passed to the Pharaoh Akhenaten to Moses to Alexander the Great to the sage and miracle worker, Apollonius of Tyana.
In China, the Taoist, Chang
Tao-Ling, was mystically given an alchemical treatise by Lao Tzu with
instructions for the Elixir of Life. Hermes Trismegistus, who lived around 1,
900 BCE, founded Egyptian alchemy. His work was furthered by the Arabian
alchemists Gerber (Abou Moussah Djfar-Al Sell), Rhasis, Alfarabi, and Avicenna
(Ebu Cinna). The Arabs brought Alchemy to Spain and from there it spread throughout Europe where it was the definitive
science for 1,700 years - many alchemical symbols and formulae grace the
cathedrals built during the Middle Ages.
Some other noteworthy alchemists are: Artephius, Alphonso, Peter d'Apona, Roger Bacon, Botticher, Roger Boyle, Cedrennus, Francesco Colonna, Nicolas Flamel, Fulcanelli, Edward Kelly, William de Loris, Raymond Lully, Jean de Meung, Steffan Michelspacher, Morienus, Arnold de Villeneuve, Isaacs Hollandus, Albertus Magnus, Paracelsus, Paykull, Plato, Pythagoras, Sir George Ripley, Christian Rosenkreutz, Michael Sendivogius, Alexander Seton, Comte St Germain, Thomas Vaughan, Jean Baptista Van Helmont, and Zosimus, the Panopolite. Much of Alchemy knowledge and many Alchemical Transformation principles were transcribed and encoded for transmission in the form of hieroglyphs, symbols, paintings, icons, poems, pictorial languages, ciphers, songs, coded alphabets, and sacred architecture.
This process of dissemination not only protected spiritual knowledge from being
profaned but also acted like a powerful impetus to push beyond the envelope, to
transcend the boundaries of normalcy and to truely reach for the starry heights
twinkling Above, beckoning the seeker of understanding Below to strive to become
the Sage Mage with the View from the Mountaintop... Continue on, Go
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