Other Forms of Divination & Western Esotericism

[bradford]

Hi all-
I just finished a major revision to a links page for Western Esotericism (or Western Mystery Tradition).
It's up to 8o pages now and has a pretty complete study syllabus for Tarot, Astrology, Qabalah, Runes, Enneagram, Alchemy, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, and all kinds of other goodies. There's a linked outline at the top. http://www.hermetica.info/TongLink.htm
Inquiring minds may wanna know.
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[anemos]

Wanted to ask you , from your research, have you notices any correlation between alchemy and hex 63-64 (fire and water ) ?

 

[bradford]

Wanted to ask you , from your research, have you notices any correlation between alchemy and hex 63-64 (fire and water ) ?

Not really. There are more than a hundred processes in Alchemy. Most can probably be related to one gua or another. Some of the better known are Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation and Coagulation. Some assignments of these to the gua are pretty obvious.
But if there was any one gua that really represented the soul of Alchemy it would have to be 50, the Cauldron.

 

[anemos]

Someone told me about the seal of solomon and also the union of fire and water and hieros gamos, when i was asking about the ways the elements of fire and water interact and the feel of the chaos-order of 63-64 .

from your comments, I regard as they are two totally different things.

Thanks for responding

 

[bradford]

Someone told me about the seal of solomon and also the union of fire and water and hieros gamos, when i was asking about the ways the elements of fire and water interact and the feel of the chaos-order of 63-64 .

That image fits well with 63 & 64, but those symbols weren't really part of alchemy as much as Western magic and later European Hermeticism. The Magen David (the Hexagram incorrectly called the Star of David and the Seal of Solomon) didn't really come into its own until a couple of centuries ago.

 

[anemos]

i thought it fitted too. not only that but other comments i heard , from different backgrounds and in different words , yet echoing some words I can read in hex 63-64. in essence the ways fire and water interrelate is the same .

thanks again.