Philosophy Wire: Cellular alchemy. Old secrets...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-12-08]: Cellular alchemy turns skin cells into brain cells. Mature cells can be converted into stem cells by exposing them to a cocktail of chemicals that reverts them back to an embryonic-like state. Another set of chemicals is then used to turn the cells into the desired tissue type. [1] Old alchemists had a dream. We mocked them. Only to begin a quest to achieve whatever they were trying to achieve in a new more fancy way... No it is not a fairy tale. The Philosopher's Stone exists. It is as real as the alchemists' efforts to create it. Follow it.

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Philosophy Wire: Water alchemy...

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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-08-01]: Researchers at the University of Arkansas have identified that water, when chilled to a very low temperature, transforms into a new form of liquid. [1] Alchemy just changed its name...

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Alchemists. Enigma. Σιωπή.

Newton believed in the “prisca sapientia”. And so did other alchemists. But they also believed that this knowledge should not reach the unprepared mind. Only those who deserve such knowledge should be allowed to it. That is why alchemists used a complex system of references, codes and antiphases in order to record their knowledge. A knowledge now hidden in manuscripts and prints inside dark libraries.

Σιωπή.

Their skepticism against written language, which is subject to Babylonian corruption and which enslaves the Holy Spirit inside an unholy structure of grammatical bonds, made them use pictures to convey their message. These enigmatic pictures have no words and yet they speak everything.

As alchemists themselves said, “Whenever we have spoken openly we have (actually) said nothing. But where we have written something in code and in pictures we have concealed the truth”. (Rosarium philosophorum, Weinhein edition, 1990)

Below you can see some selected pictures from the Taschen "Alchemy and Mysticism" book. (buy the book if you want to see more)

Other pictures can be found at...

• Αλχημιστές. Αίνιγμα. Σιωπή.
• Alchemists. Enigma. Σιωπή. (Blogger)
• Alchemists. Enigma. Σιωπή. (Wordpress)

Philosophy Wire: Bi-butterfly, Alchemy and the Unity we miss…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-07-12]: A butterfly which is both male and female was born in UK [source: BBC News]. The unity which Philosophers see in the world and which Alchemy sought to find in the union of man and woman, is now embodied in a small flying insect. It may be true that we “see” opposites all around us, but it is in their unification that we realize the real potential of the cosmos… And Nature reminds us that unification is as simple as separation…

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