"...to enable you to study this science of alchemy, I will lend you a book which you may read and study; and if you keep your intuitional faculties open and your mind unclouded, I will be invisibly near you and assist you to understand the meaning of the secret symbols contained therein." With these words Theodorus handed me a book containing a number of coloured plates with symbols and signs. It was an old book, and its title was "The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."

Relevant chapter:
https://archive.sacred-texts.com/sro/wta/wta08.htm

Whole text:
https://sacred-texts.com/sro/wta/index.htm

or

https://archive.org/details/withadeptsan...g/mode/2up

Hartmann's translation of the Secret Symbols:
https://www.academia.edu/10343442/Secret...sicrucians


   

""The Secret of the Golden Flower," known in its native Chinese as the T’ ai I Chin Hua Tsung Chih can be traced back to the seventeenth century when it was printed on wooden tablets. However, the oral tradition goes all the way back to the eighth century during the T’ang period where its teachings can be found within the Religion of the Golden Elixir of Life (Chin-tan-chiao). The text is attributed to the Taoist master Lü Dongbin, also known as Lü-tsu or Lü the Guest of the Cavern, who lived at the end of the eighth century and who would be later counted among the eight immortals of Chinese folklore."


Text and English translation:

http://thesecretofthegoldenflower.com/index.html

Video introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVVhOgBNp00

Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret...den_Flower

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https://martaorlowska.com/surreal-art
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Symbolism, Mysteries, and Origins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNqkHvm5gA4

"The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth is an ancient Hermetic treatise. It is one of the three short texts attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus that were discovered among the Nag Hammadi findings. References to the Egyptian city of Diospolis and to hieroglyphic characters, as well as certain affinities with the Middle Platonist philosopher Albinus (fl. c. 150 CE), point to a composition in Roman Egypt somewhere in the second century CE."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEUOEdUNuXU

"In the following pages are numerous sources cited in A.S. Geden’s Select Passages Illustrating Mithraism [pdf button], to help us understand the very important cult of the Mysteries of Mithras, attributed to the ancient Magi, well-known from the Bible as the wisemen of the East."

https://ordoabchao.ca/resources/chaldean-magi

https://old.bitchute.com/video/WIdHYkZNaTPM/

and/or read here:

https://www.alchemy-texts.com/book/azoth/

Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological and Spiritual Healing

Audiobook - unabridged

"The Five Spirits themselves can be understood as the Taoist version of the chakra system of Vedic India. Like the chakras, the spirits exist as centers of consciousness in the subtle body, rather than as structures in the physical body. Just as each chakra relates to a particular level of consciousness, each spirit relates to a particular aspect of human awareness, a particular vibration or frequency of psychic energy."

https://tinyurl.com/5x8ys4fx

"The alchemical masterpiece Splendor Solis reveals powerful illuminations that lyrically teach the Secrets of Alchemy. Pick up the Golden Treasure Box, and you hold a beautiful work of art distilling the glories of an entire mystery school of visionary imagination. Inside awaits the gilt-edged Tarot deck of 78 cards, and the lavishly illustrated book of splendors, a lyrically-written resource for readings, and a guide to the mystic journey."



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