If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, today you can celebrate the winter solstice, the longest and darkest night of the year and the shortest day of the year. Celebrations of this day are among the oldest in human history, as today represents the day from which you have more daylight and also the beginning…
Our growth, purpose, and awakening pass through setting ourselves free to choose, understand, echo the sound of the Universe resonating in our Energy.
Today's Book of the Day is Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul written by Titus Burckhardt and published in 1997 by Fons Vitae (the book was originally published in 1960, in German, under the title Alchemie, Sinn- und Weltbild). Eminent Swiss metaphysician and scholar Dr. Titus Burckhardt (1908 - 1984) was an…
Welcome happiness and acceptance, caring and awareness, compassion and commitment, love and gratitude. That is the alchemy of life.
Today's Book Of The Day is The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 by Jennifer M. Rampling, published in 2020 by The University of Chicago Press. The author, Jennifer M. Rampling, is an associate professor of history at Princeton University. The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 This book is an extremely detailed and rich…
As you know, I study Alchemy. Alchemy is not, as many think, an occult relic of the past ages. Alchemy is the path of personal holistic illumination, liberation from what is limiting us, awakening into higher levels of understanding. Following this definition, Alchemy is a multi-faceted, all-encompassing, and systematic approach to freedom, transformation, and change.…
Alchemy is a lifelong learning process. In alchemy, transformation is essential, as it is in our life. Azoth is considered the essential agent of transformation in alchemy. It is the ancient name given by alchemists to mercury, the animating spirit, the Universal Solvent, the Universal Cure, the elixir vitae (Elixir of Life). Azoth is a…
Trying to improve ourselves is not about spirituality. It represents a natural call to learning, trying, growing, repeating.
We often look far away to find happiness, fulfillment, and success when all it takes is growing them under our feet in our journey.
Life is an endless series of choices. We all can be either defeated by our reactions or improved by our actions. We are in control of our lives.
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