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From anonymous manifestos to modern esoteric orders, Rosicrucianism's promise of universal reformation through hidden wisdom continues to captivate seekers of spiritual knowledge.
How the number 108 and Golden Ratio (φ) appear across global traditions, from Buddhist malas to architectural proportions, revealing humanity's quest for cosmic harmony.
Was this the first great logo of alchemy? A 10th/11th-century copy of Cleopatra the Alchemist’s ‘Chrysopoeia’ shows an ouroboros, odd apparatus, and a three-word philosophy: the all is one.
How Greek number theory shaped harmony, why philosophers linked modes to character and politics, what ‘cosmic music’ meant, and how those ideas echo in science, architecture, and daily listening.
Mazdakism taught a dualism of Light and Darkness, urged charity over hoarding, and briefly reshaped politics in late antique Iran before ending in blood. Later remembered as heresy, it remains a case study in how religion and reform meet.
Tarot began as a fifteenth century Italian card game with a fifth suit of trumps. Divinatory use arrived much later in Enlightenment Paris. Learn the real history and a clean method for reading with Marseille, Rider Waite Smith, Thoth, or Lenormand.
A clear guide to what Bogomils believed, how they worshipped, why authorities feared them, and how their ideas traveled from Bulgaria across the medieval Balkans and beyond.
A concise, artifact-driven tour of the Roman mysteries of Mithras: cave-like temples, graded initiations, a cosmological bull-slaying image, communal meals, and what the cult was (and wasn't) in relation to Persia, Sol Invictus, and December 25.
What Zurvanism is, how it diverges from orthodox Zoroastrianism, its three schools (Materialist, Fatalistic, Classical), the implications for determinism and the problem of evil, and why it was branded heresy, plus a concise FAQ.
What the Orphic leaves told souls to say, what the Derveni Papyrus tried to explain, and how the Hymns sounded in ritual. Here is a careful tour of the evidence and the underworld script that chose Memory over Forgetfulness.
A volatile season of prophecy in Reformation St. Gallen: Verena Baumann's claims, the council's response, and what the episode tells us about women, lay Scripture, and radical religion in 1526.
Zosimos blended hands-on metallurgy with visionary teaching, defining alchemy as both material practice and spiritual ascent, an influence that echoed from Roman Egypt through Arabic science to medieval Europe.
Meet Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary fusion of Hermes and Thoth whose Hermetic writings bridged temple and laboratory, inspiring centuries of alchemists, mystics, and philosophers.
What alchemists meant by the Philosopher's Stone, where the idea came from, how the work was staged in vessels and images, why Boyle and Newton cared, and how the symbol still speaks to change.