March 25, 2019 – Page 3

Catalytic (Alchemical) Sulfur, Mercury and Salt in Western Occultism

Western occultism (and, without a doubt, pre-present-day Western science) is unequivocally centered around an arrangement of four of five components: fire, air, water, and earth, in addition to soul or ether. Be that as it may, chemists regularly talked about three more components: mercury, sulfur, and salt, with some concentrating on mercury and sulfur. Origins…

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As Above So Below Occult Expression and Origin

The Hermetic Rule Scarcely any expressions have become as interchangeable with occultism "as above, so below" and different adaptations of the expression. As a piece of elusive belief, there are numerous applications and explicit understandings of the expression, yet many general clarifications can be given for the expression. Hermetic Origin The expression originates from…

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Etymology

The soonest known use of the expression "occultism" is in the French Language as l'occultisme. In this form it shows up in A. de Lestrange's article on that was distributed in Jean-Baptiste Richard de Randonvilliers' Dictionnaire des witticisms nouveaux ("Dictionary of new words") in 1842. In any case, it was not related, now, to the…

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Illumination in Occult sciences.

"Occult sciences" created in the sixteenth century. The term ordinarily incorporated three practices, Astrology (crystal gazing), alchemy (speculative chemistry) and Natural magic (normal enchantment), albeit here and there different forms of divination were likewise included as opposed to being subsumed under common enchantment. These were assembled because, according to the historian of religion Wouter Hanegraaff,…