Alchemie

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The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library
86 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 1300 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 1700 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material on alchemy. Introduction to alchemy - Reading list, historical survey, various ways of looking at alchemy. Alchemical Imagery, symbolism and music - paintings, images from manuscripts, alchemical apparatus and symbols, database of alchemical emblems. Practical alchemy - lists of substances and processes, John Reid's Course in Plant alchemy. Present day resources - Magazines, societies, publishers, related web sites. Extensive bibliography of alchemical texts, printed books and manuscripts. E-mail discussion group for scholars and serious students of alchemy. Reference library of alchemical texts. Articles on alchemy.
Specialist sections   Islamic alchemy   Indian Alchemy   Chinese alchemy    Latin translation program. Material in languages other than English:  French, German , Italian,  Russian and Spanish
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Alchemy German Section

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Writings about Alchemy by Adam McLean
Linksammlung zu sehr interessanten Artikeln von Adam McLean.
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An Alchemist's Treasure
Alchemy is a Science of Soul that results from an understanding of God, Nature, and Man. A perfect knowledge of any of one them cannot be obtained without the knowledge of the other two, for these three are one and inseparable. Alchemy is not merely an intellectual but a spiritual science, because that which belongs to the spirit can only be spiritually known. Nevertheless, it is also a science dealing with material things, for spirit and matter are only two opposite manifestations or poles of the eternal One.
Alchemy is also an art, and as every art requires an artist to exercise it, likewise this divine science and art can be practiced only by those who are in possession of the divine power necessary for that purpose. It is true that the external manipulations required for the production of certain alchemical preparations may, like an ordinary chemical process, be taught to anybody capable of reasoning. However, the results that such a person would accomplish would be without life, for only he in whom the true life has awakened can awaken it from its sleep in matter and cause visible forms to grow from the primordial Chaos of nature.
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Alchemy Lab Web Ring
The Alchemy Lab Web Ring consists of a variety of independent websites devoted to alchemy and the Great Work. The Great Work of the alchemists was nothing less than the perfection of all three levels of reality (the Material, the Mental, and the Spiritual) and anyone operating a website devoted to transformation in any of these areas is invited to join the Alchemy Lab Web Ring.
The ring is made up of member sites dedicated to such diverse transformational topics as the Hermetic sciences, practical alchemy, spiritual gnosis, mythology, pagan studies, the Emerald Tablet, healing, personal development, mystical and paranormal experiences, quantum reality, and parapsychology. 
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Georg von Welling - Opus Mago-Cabalisticum et Theosophicum
Arthur Versluis
The Opus Mago-Cabalisticum et Theosophicum is an important and influential esoteric work that has never been translated into English. Included here are its table of contents, and selections from the first chapter, on salt, and an excerpt from "A Little Tractate on Eternal Wisdom," which was appended to the Opus. The entire Tractate may be found in the forthcoming Wisdom's Book: The Sophia Anthology, edited by Arthur Versluis. The table of contents and the selections from the first chapter were translated chiefly by Thomas Achternkamp, but were edited by Arthur Versluis.Born in Schwaben, Bavaria, in 1652, Georg von Welling worked as director of the Baden-Durlacher Office of Building and Mines until 1723, and died in 1727 in Frankfurt. Welling was primarily known for his book whose short title is Opus Mago-Cabalisticum, [1735] and which influenced numerous subsequent authors, including Goethe, who perused it during his alchemical studies. The title suggests a great deal about the contents, which certainly have as much to do with magic as theosophy, as much to do with Agrippa, elemental spirits, alchemy, and arcane diagrams as with Böhmean cosmology.
http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/Archive/Welling.html

ALCHEMY
The initial goal of alchemical endeavours is to reconcile the opposites in the "quaternio",exempified by the four elements or by the four seasons of the son in the circle of the Zodiac (Aries,Cancer,Libra,Capricorn).The unifying central agent is conceived of as the spirit Mercurius.The infinitely more challenging second stage involves the opposing duality symbolised by the relationship between male and female.This idea is contrary to the facile assumption that the normal male/female relationship is a cosy complementarity,and that the conflict between the sexes we see all around us is mere aberration.The powerful forces attracting male and female together are needed only because there is such a strong resistance keeping them apart.The opposition between male and female is reflected in the relationship between the spiritual and the physical,the spiritual being traditionally equated with masculinity and the physical with femininity.

The alchemical quaternio has its Eastern equivalent in the emblem of the mandala,which is basically a design that combines the circle with the square. 

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Alchemie im Mittelalter
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Alchemisten waren früher wissenschaftlich interessierte Männer, die Laborgeräte und chemische Verfahren entwickelten. Ihr damals wichtigstes Ziel war die Herstellung von Gold, was sie jedoch nie erreichten.
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