Alchemy - The Hermetic Gold-Making of Cleopatra the Alchemist - Ancient Alchemy in Theory & Practice

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[@MAGIAECORPUS]

Dude?! Alchemical experiments at 15 and crystal radios? You are so awesome.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yeah, my parents didn't think it was so awesome :)

[@MAGIAECORPUS]

@@TheEsotericaChannel sorry about that. I saw those glass cases in high schools and experiments being done and I said f that. I’m not doing metal alchemy unless I have one of those.

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I'm glad nothing permanently bad happened and you here to be our teacher.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

@@MAGIAECORPUS Me and you both, brother :)

[@smillstill]

My folks wouldn't even buy me a chemistry set because they thought it too dangerous. Maybe that's why I got a doctorate in chemistry. LOL! They did buy me the crystal radio kit, though.

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I always feel as if I'm listening to a friend whenever I watch. Thank you for your heart that you pour into this, and your personable approach. It helps me calm down and meditate, as I'm under quite a bit of stress in my life

[@Fiscacondaniel]

If my kid began practicing Alchemy on his own, I don't know if I'll be proud or scared, probably both. Great video doctor Sledge!

[@chrisa1555]

I started off with science kits as a kid and continued studying for Medical Doctor. 🤘with Picasso 😂

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[@TheEsotericaChannel]

"The past isn't dead - It isn't even past." - Faulkner

[@Nivloc317]

That pregnant pause after your quip about the rational users of the metric system was on point. ;-)

[@Jason-ms8bv]

Thanks once again for uncovering yet more hidden history! This was genuinely educational and moving.. women have been left out of human endeavour for far tooo long and they have sooo much to add to our development as a species.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yep, it's such a bro-show in history that highlighting important women is important.

[@LaAlquimista1111]

That’s true sweetie ❤️

[@darkartsbyadrienne]

Absolutely moving! Another fantastic, very well researched lecture. Thank you Dr. Sledge!

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Thanks so much - always glad to shine some light on lesser known women in the history of esotericism!

[@middleburyastrology]

Humbled as usual. Cleopatra was barely on my research radar. Big thanks. Great work.

[@tedhand6237]

Great stuff. Very much appreciating your emphasis on the neglected women's history of alchemy.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Thanks Ted - I really appreciate the kind words and it's great to be able to focus on these amazing women

[@veryaries_Awndreea]

The alchemical goal of finding the single divine and unifying thing reminds me of the scientific goal of finding the single theory that unites the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics

[@kevincrady2831]

Thank you for sharing knowledge about this amazing woman and her alchemical discoveries!

[@TheNorbles]

Love the videos! When my financial situation improves I will be happy to support your channel on patreon, but for now all I can offer is a massive thank you for showing me that the real stories of alchemy can be even more fascinating than what is shown in pop culture.

[@williamboisdenghien2849]

Funny how medieval and later texts both confuse Ptolemy the astronomer with Ptolemy I and Cleopatra the alchemist with (I guess) Cleopatra VII, the first and the last of the Ptolemies. Note that the knife found in Tutankhamun's tomb way have been a Hittite diplomatic gift.

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[@leftmusic7432]

Cheers Dr. Sledge! Getting stuck into this one now. Massive thanks for helping me along with my journey of Esoteric knowledge, it has influenced & helped me grow as a person so yeah can't say thanks enough (I have subbed to patreon ofc). Also your modern-lingo descriptions crack me up man 'Hermes the thrice-based' lol!

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Can I ask why your name is LEFTmusic? It ties synchronistically (idk if thats a word) to my life oddly enough.

[@leftmusic7432]

@@jessicapoepping I originally made this account with the intention of uploading new & old music with a leftfield nature I liked to go along with a blog called LEFT, however I had a change of plan & just use this to catalogue music & informative stuff. LEFT = Low End Frequency Transmissions.

[@jessicapoepping]

@@leftmusic7432 thank you for that!!

[@JQDS13]

This video -- much like the Chrysopoeia -- is packed with information! I'm really in awe at the wisdom in these texts -- so much great food for thought. Thanks so much for sharing this with us in such an accessible way. 😊

[@torianprettymuch999]

It makes sense for Alchemy to be a universal principle, subjected to the context of the culture identifying with it.

[@genghisgalahad8465]

The journey is breathtaking, deeply encompassing and is pretty transcendent, in my first and primary impression. The video is an elegant distillation of the history of alchemy, and its journey through history and the immense work of Cleopatra the Alchemist. And not to overly hype it but it’s an impressive arc and a rare treasure trove in learning esoteric history.

[@carenguerreroa]

This is my favorite channel by far. Thanks for the knowledge❤️

[@grahammontague8344]

Thanks!

[@colossalcollin]

9:45 *SHOTS FIRED* Keep up the good work Doc!

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I'm so happy you're doing this stuff - the channel and all

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What a great addition to my Friday!!!! 🙏🏽🖤

[@1amjapan]

I love how much you're enjoying saying 'Cleopatra' in this.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Her friends call her Patty

[@1amjapan]

@@TheEsotericaChannel haha, well I've only just been introduced... wouldn't want to come across as being too forward.

[@roberthubbard3302]

That was brilliant. It is a shame that more of her work has not survived.

[@jasonmorello1374]

There is a couple other notes about modern chemistry versus this overall set up. The gaseous SO2 will mostly bubble out of the water, as you said, but a measuarble amount will react with water forming sulfuric acid, which will probably make the surface of the mercury golden/yellowish.

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Your work rate is crazy doc If possible could you do a video on the influence of Egyptian magical practices on magical traditions such as the golden dawn

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Spitting out bangers I see.

[@jcortese3300]

10:10 -- Honestly, that little collection of symbols near what looks to be a serpent's tail reminds me of the catholic mass. It looks like a figure standing next to an altar with a monstrance on it calling down the spirit of Christ -- the P with the line through it (or a P with an X through it) is sometimes used to denote Christ. I think that symbol is trying to refer to transubstantiation of the eucharist. Maybe it's trying to imply that following the instructions on the page will result in a similar change in substance -- turning something into gold.

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[@greenlionalchemy2425]

I am going to bookmark this and watch it later.

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Thankyou Dr. Sledge! 🤩

[@NullStaticVoid]

Leonara Carrington! I only just found out about her art recently. Amazing stuff

[@hedgehog3180]

7:55 One of the weird things about modern depictions of Cleopatra is that she's depicted as incredibly sexy when ancient sources make it very clear that her looks were average but what was so attractive about her was her great intelligence and conversational skills.

[@kongjie74]

At least fifteen year old you was working with a real text. A friend of mine got carried away with mantak chiapet and ended up getting severe mercury poisoning which took him years to get over.

[@MikkellTheImmortal]

I just laughed so hard and loud at your comment about the use of the metric system, and the really long pause afterward that my neighbours dog started barking. Yes the metric system is the official unit of measurement in the USA and has been for almost 100+ years

[@ramkitty]

Props for attempting a primitive cinibar lambic at 15 though, hell at more than double I still have to watch for that inner rascal

[@glendanison3064]

Thank you for distinguishing the Cleopatras before I embarrassed myself with my ignorance in a comment. Though it seems it's what I just did.

[@daveanctil1209]

Thank you so much for the pun metric system!

[@EphemeralTao]

Dr. Sledge: "Which has won universal acceptance everywhere people are _rational_ about such things". Me: cries in American...

[@phillipbernhardt-house6907]

Thanks very much for this excellent discussion! :) It looks like the reproduction by Ouroboros Press has a lot of mistakes in the inner ring of the upper left ouroboros, at least...!?! Is the Greek text of those two rings written out somewhere that can be accessed? I am having some issues with understanding how the start of the inner ring in particular is being parsed, and I am not finding a complete transcription of it anywhere online.

[@ktkatte6791]

Thank you as always!

[@Thelkter13]

There's a french translation of some of the Zosimos' texts made by Michelle Mertens, and she says that the title of "Cleopatra's chrysopoeia" might be a copyist error, based on the fact that this exact page comes after a Zosimos' text and that some of the diagrams (specially the stylized ouroboros) correspond with the diagrams found right after Zosimos' texts on other alchemical manuscripts. If that's true, I think it's really sad because that means the chrysopoeia of Cleopatra has not been transmitted to us. By the way, thank you for your amazing content. I've been learning a lot with your videos in the last few months.

[@catoelder4696]

That's pretty interesting.

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Best channel on YT ✨

[@jeanfalconer6377]

9:56 That pause felt significant!!😂🤣

[@jmarz2600]

9:50 Hey, hey, hey. As an architect in the U.S. I welcome our continued use of historical and esoteric Units! Lol.

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I just found your channel this is truly a massive wealth of knowledge your laying out here, have you covered anything on esoteric music teachings or are there any old books your aware of?

[@LoudWaffle]

"...with the spread of the metric system, which has won universal acceptance everywhere people are... rational... about such things." *long pause* For some reason saucy comments and petty little jabs are a million times better when done in formal, academic contexts. Amazing video otherwise as well, as per usual.

[@wendykleeb2071]

In the crucible of stars and their novas, the lowly hydrogen atom becomes gold. Alchemist ideas were on to something, the ideas just needed to evolve.

[@helenbostock2350]

Great woman and thier words

[@hedgehog3180]

20:00 Noo not Mikeal Psellos I love that guy.

[@MrDowntemp0]

Would be a fun video watching you attempt that cinebar processing (in a proper lab, and with a chemist... maybe nilered?)

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This channel is v hype, opened many new hidden doors to alchemy #kerotakis 🧙‍♂️📈💰

[@lanetteupshaw7951]

What papers, texts, etc. are there related to Cleopatra? I have seen many things online that modern distillation is related to her. What proof do we have?

[@MrLumagu]

Great work!

[@Brainpasta]

Oh man. I really felt that jab at the non metric measurements. 😆

[@sketchportraitstudio6368]

Interesting, so did Cleopatra the alchemist precede the solomonic hermetic traditions? Of course I know that she did not preceded the historical figure but did the hermetical text and legend show up before the ones on solomon? Thanks for clarification on this!

[@Bildgesmythe]

But does the metric system have any measurement to beat a butload of wine?

[@catoelder4696]

Hermes the thrice-based kkkkkkkkk Great video!

[@Xeinoz]

cleopatra letter looks amazing my interpretation: put the elements und the earth, wait the perfect star position take it out, speak growing prayers, use them on fire in to one peace, put them back in the earth and belife it is a plant and use holy wather, do this again use holy wather and have to know it is a plant, and at the end it is a gold plant growing. WOOOO THIS TEXT IS AMAZING FANTASY ART I LOVE IT.

[@Xeinoz]

Much Thanks to you Dr. Sledge this Stream is amazing.

[@StevenSchoolAlchemy]

The ourobos represents fusion, as the wheel of alchemy is turned, the volatile and the fixed learn to abide the fire as they become one.

[@TheNorbles]

I am going to need some ice for that metric system burn!

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100% Excellent!!!

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Whats Your band called????

[@slmille4]

Very cool! Are there any historical alchemical artifacts that haven't been explained by modern chemistry, or is everything accounted for?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Nope, substantial transmutation - aside from modern nuclear technology - is impossible.

[@genghisgalahad8465]

@@TheEsotericaChannel and fusion is being developed as a safer source of clean atomic energy and even in theoretical and observational astrophysics, specifically heliophysics, the workings of the sun (why its coronal shell is counterintuitively hotter than its surface) remains a physics problem yet to be solved. I’m thinking it’s no surprise that one of the earliest recognized founders/fathers/geniuses of modern physics, Isaac Newton, was an alchemist.

[@slmille4]

@@TheEsotericaChannel Apparently there is some alchemical gold that as of 2017 Dr. Lawrence Principe was still waiting for permission to analyze (kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJrck5mvf8-bf6c) though it's impossible to validate the provenance of the sample.

[@Sehsanushah]

If someone finds a philosopher stone, how to use it to make gold?

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thank you ✨👍✨

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The things I want to learn about the most are all but wiped out: the spiritual ways of the Picts

[@HopefulHistorian]

Could you do one where you discuss what if anything we know about medera and taphnutia? The other two alchemist women?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Probably as a fragmenta episode - basically nothing is known about them

[@HopefulHistorian]

@@TheEsotericaChannel that sucks, it's so interesting that the oldest confirmable alchemists were women but Nicholas Flamel is the poster boy for mainstream media, and he most likely wasn't an alchemist. Thanks for the amazing videos I have been devouring them!

[@ReneeEmmaWade]

What if ive made more gold for my area and they are not paying me my share

[@cbaci]

I'm interested in your thoughts about Jung's exploration of Alchemy & Gnosticism from the psychological perspective. My 15 y/o self ended up following these same studies to Jung, a true #sexyhermetic #pleroma

[@White_Fox_of_the_Mists]

Alchemy at 15? You rock.

[@thatworksmedia]

We are all very glad you did not blow yourself up making liquid mercury when you were 15.

[@alchemistsanonymous6558]

9:50 YES

[@Lyndanet]

She did so much as a scientist! I am very glad she wasn’t a creepy goddess I never would believe something Bullwinkied like that..

[@delphinidin]

I was six minutes into this video before I realized that Cleopatra the Alchemist was probably not the same person as Cleopatra the Pharoah... lol

[@LadyCoyKoi]

Yeah, I made the same mistake and the professor kindly corrected me with added information. I blame World History classes for limiting and leaving out lots of women from History narrative. 😔😕

[@Dr.Iggulden_ND]

Nice chemistry knowledge, Brother. Who said philosophy wasn't a science? ;)

[@grandmasterglick5895]

Hermes Trisegmetus walks into a club and sees the most beautiful and ravishing red head he's ever seen before. He walks up to her and asks... "As above, so below?" #sexyhermetic

[@zenosAnalytic]

"...the Metric system, which has won universal acceptance everywhere people are... Rational... about such things *stares disapprovingly at camera uncomfortably long*" XD XD XD

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swirling red merc, up up and away

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Best. Hashtags. Ever.

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Man 80k people is like a Led Zepelim concert, not sure what is better but sure times are changing arent they?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Definitely a zeppelin show ;)

[@Neon-Shadowcaster]

I find it strange that she can draw perfect circles but still drew such a strange snake.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Being a good draftsperson doesn't make you a good artist, I guess.

[@Neon-Shadowcaster]

​@@TheEsotericaChannel It seriously reminds me of Henry Lincoln's 'Le tresor maudit' and the code he broke. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWLHoJaJaautb8U

[@anglerfish4161]

Perfect circles can be drawn with tools, an animal, not so much

[@billhasntbeenreal6143]

Omg the 6 seconds of contempt for the lack of metric in the States had me giggling.

[@tishainess9339]

Yaaaay!!

[@bonfireblu]

Did you have to get mercury chelated from your body at 15? Either way hurting yourself with mercury i would Bet that was a Wild experience....

[@Tinkering4Time]

Ah callout on Imperial/Freedom units. XD

[@helenbostock2350]

Wow head down

[@LaAlquimista1111]

❤️

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the all is in all

[@erniealvarado7548]

Hi from the occult TE TRA GRAM MA TON the pentagram

[@alexandriaorcld6365]

being a master alchemist even at the age of 15, lol

[@TinaML]

some of her work most likley disaperid in the burning of the libarerery in alexandria...... Sad

[@micahtdoggknight9728]

When the vatican library is opened and made completely available, some of these mysteries will be solved. Maybe as Aquarius moves forward this could happen, and the control be put asunder

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

It is opened and very accessible, actually.

[@LiveAtEs]

They are “solved” which is a crude word for how these mysteries are applied…) and practiced to this day brother.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

@@LiveAtEs So what do the glyphs on the top right of the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra mean?

[@LiveAtEs]

@@TheEsotericaChannel I assume it’s the same mystery transmutating the life energy into oneself. As most mysteries are, but specifically what it says I don’t know. it is my job to teach the application of all the mysteries from all philosophies, but I admit I do not know the answer brother. I was referring the mysteries in general, not precisely hers, but I would love a hint.. because I typically can detail most of them. Thank you for this content… all is atum!

[@micahtdoggknight9728]

@@TheEsotericaChannel a future topic on the true history of human kind would be great as it applies antediluvian civs

[@jpf338]

Who dislike this? XD

[@travelchannel304]

Those ga' gone Christians! And we wonder why its so difficult to attract members of The Body of Christ. " you said Transmutation!! The Transfiguration!! There's something there that the masses just don't get. Esp in our Puritanical west. Just a hunch. If i read Hebrew or Greek , maybe itd help.

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😏

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THE PAUSE

[@Tdtsnowflake]

I had an experience meeting Thoth in an astral travel.

[@Battlelord187]

Go deeper

[@Tdtsnowflake]

@@Battlelord187 you mean elaborate on experience ?

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That's nice dear.