Category: Alchemy
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Sitting at the Feet of the Hogwarts Headmaster
Sgt. John Granger of the United States Marine Corps (stationed in Japan) was proud to say that he was perfectly normal, thank you very much. He was the last person you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious — especially invocational magic — and the last person you would expect to become a Hogwarts headmaster…
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Outtakes: My Alchemical Wedding
As promised last week, I’m putting up the best pictures from our wedding. Were I a photographer, it would frustrate me to take fantastic pictures only to watch a family order all the terrible ones. Here are Mark’s gems from our wedding:
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My Alchemical Wedding : Alchemy Symbols for a Wedding Planner
We crafted our wedding ceremony around alchemical imagery in order to change the audience from passive spectators into active participants in the drama unfolding onstage.
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Sitting at the feet of : a Medievalist
When he asked his Franciscan Father, “When did you become a Franciscan?” Alex Giltner’s Father answered, “When I was born.” Alex feels the same about medievalism—he can’t trace back the source. However, like most young boys, he drew close to stories and films of dragons and swords. Then at fourteen, he read The Lord of…
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Kingkiller Alchemy: Refining Kvothe
I read the opening lines of Wise Man’s Fear: “dawn was coming.” At first, seeing that WMF’s prologue read as a one-page metaphor of a three-part silence, I thought he actually copied and pasted the thing. I didn’t mind it, in fact it set the tone well for WMF. But then, halfway through the reading,…
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Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
Burckhardt’s Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul is the defining work on Esoteric Alchemy.