Western Mysteries

Why Learn Real Alchemy on a Magical Path?

Real alchemy is the art of making quintessences, truly magical psycho-spiritual sacraments that expand consciousness into transcendent levels of experience. One point of distinction between true al...

Magic & Alchemy: Understanding the Link

Magic as a broad subject is far more widely studied, since reliable alchemical training is hard to find. The same is unfortunately true of magic, but there is so much more of it available in genera...

Practical Alchemy Training

Practical training in alchemy focuses initially on the process and obtainment of true quintessences from the plant kingdom through the Primum Ens process. Private instruction accelerates the proces...

True Initiatory Levels in Alchemy & Magic

True initiatory levels in alchemy and magic progress from Initiate, to Adept, to Master, through a process reflected in the stages of practical alchemy itself.

Plant Alchemy: Hollandus Pyrolytic Distillation

This was nearly an 18-hour process with setup and breakdown, and about 15 hours of process itself. The results seen at the end are what Hollandus called the White Fume and Red Fume. Raymond Lully c...

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes is the single most famous artifact of the entire Hermetic Tradition, though only translations are available to us today. Unfortunately, we cannot go to a museum to see ...

Alchemy 101 Lectures: Intro to High Alchemical Arts

As the first lecture/workshop in this series, Alchemy 101 lays solid groundwork to approach the subject, gives a path of practical understanding, and enables deeper levels of knowledge in the realm...