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Alchemy

10 Sep

Posted at 14:27h in Alchemy, Backstory Maier Files, Culture, Grail, Legend, Maier Files, Otto Maier, philosophy, Runes, symbolism, the occult, witchcraft
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Otto Maier's secret texts. Is there more than meets the eye? Wali - Wili - Widi - Widar. In Eddic mythology Odihn is avenged on the Fenris wolf by Widar. Wili is named alongside We as Odhin's or Wotan's brother. According to the third poem in the Poetic Edda, the vafthrudnismal (Vafþrúðnismál). Widar and Wali (who avenges Baldur and Hödur)...

23 Jul

Posted at 08:03h in Alchemy, Backstory Maier Files, Culture, info, jung, Maier Files, Otto Maier, paradox, philosophy
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When following Maier's path one will meet somewhere on his/her road, Böhme. Like the contemporary student of the inner world, alchemists were concerned about differentiating imagination from fantasy. They were aware that true imagination possesses a power and depth that fantasy does not possess. Jakob Boehme was one of those who warned against the delusions of fantasy. [vc_row][vc_column width='3/4']Although not a...

18 Jul

Posted at 10:39h in Alchemy, Books, Culture, info, philosophy, Poetry, Quote, symbolism
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[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4']In the Tower at Bollingen it is as if one lived many centuries simultaneously. The place will outlive me, and in its location and style it points backward to things of long ago. There is very little about it to suggest the present. If a man of the sixteenth century were to move into the house, only the kerosene...

23 Feb

Posted at 09:20h in Alchemy, Backstory Maier Files, banking, Banks, Books, Conspiracies, History, info, money, Politics, World wars
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The destruction of the worldwide economic order in the wake of World War II encouraged world leaders in 1944 to form a meeting to generate alternatives. This conference, referred to as Bretton Woods, resulted in the development of a new global fixed exchange rate regime with the U.S. dollar playing a central role. Under the Bretton Woods system, an ounce of...

21 Feb

Posted at 13:40h in Alchemy, Backstory Maier Files, Culture, Grail, hyperborea, info, Legend, Mythology, symbolism
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In every varieties of the Arthurian legend, the traditional reality of Arthur (who supposedly was the Warrior King of the Nordic Cimres as they definitely battled against the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th and sixth century C.E.), is less important in comparison to the aspect according to which we are led to see in his kingdom a sense of the fundamental...

08 Feb

Posted at 09:51h in Alchemy, Books, Grail, Legend, Maier Files, Scotland, the occult, World War 2
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What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time? In the early stages of World War II a secret U-boat mission was set up to Scotland. Could it be that the untold story of "Unternehmen Kelch" has both a rational, political dimension and a "unworldly", esoteric one? [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and esoteric lore,...

13 Dec

Posted at 08:24h in Alchemy, Books, Culture, Grail, info, Mythology, nature, philosophy, symbolism, the occult
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That Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Germany's greatest poet, had an interest in the occult and alchemy is clear from Faust. Based on an historical character, the original Faust legend goes back to medieval times and prior to Goethe's there were earlier dramatic renditions of the tale, notably Christopher Marlowe's. Yet it is to Goethe's Faust (Part I 1808; Part...

06 Nov

Posted at 18:21h in Alchemy, Books, Culture, info, jung, labyrinth, Mythology, paradox
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Carl Jung, had written extensively on Abraxas. In his 1916 book called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, Jung called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil that combines all opposites into one Being. He said that Abraxas was a polymorphous world spirit which permeates — or even encompass — the very fabric of existence: "Abraxas is ...

21 Oct

Posted at 13:37h in Alchemy, Books, History, info, philosophy, the occult
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Philosophical esotericism—the practice of communicating one’s unorthodox thoughts “between the lines”—was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopédie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in over twenty different articles, but admits to employing it itself. The history of Western thought contains hundreds of such statements by major philosophers testifying to the...