Egyptian Alchemy : Decoding the Greek - Egyptian Alchemy - The Formula of the Crab / Scorpion

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[@boyscoutalchemist]

Seriously well researched and expertly delivered. Excellent watch. Looking forward to hearing your take on the stone, it is important for the next generation.

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Thanks for saying so - alchemy is a mainstay so I hope you stick around!

[@waltersobchak6012]

What do you mean ? Why is it important for the next generation ? And who is the next generation ?

[@peterbonucci9661]

I hadn't thought that they were trying to make different colors of metals. Having trade secrets for colored metal makes a lot of sense. It is amazing how many colors you can get out of copper, vinegar, ammonia, salt, and water.

[@benevolentessence8809]

it does make sense they probably sold a bunch of gold colored metal that wasnt gold lol

[@hedgehog3180]

@@benevolentessence8809 Gold specifically is really hard to fake actually, which is a large part of why it was used as currency.

[@benevolentessence8809]

@@hedgehog3180 i was thinking of the alchemists of those days of old where they claimed to turn lead into gold..did they really turn lead into gold, or did they just color it..

[@themagicianandthefool1878]

ooooohh I want to see the experiment. Very nice video. And I second the recommendation of Dr Grimes wonderful book. Its fantastic.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Hopefully I can connect with a chemist at the university I teach at and do a couple of alchemy things. I also have a set of Hessian crucibles, one of which was used - likely in an alchemical setting - and I would like to do some forensic chemistry to see what can be known about what happened in it. So, stay tuned if I can get that to happen. Great podcast by the way!

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My new favorite channel. Cheers my friend. Thank you

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Glad to hear it - hope you stick around!

[@andythedishwasher1117]

I've been really interested lately in the role metallurgy seems to play in linking the motives of scientific and religious thought. Certain metals seem to have properties that make them equally fascinating and valuable from both a spiritual and a materialistic perspective. Gold, for example, has physical properties that seem to elicit emotional and even spiritual reactions from people, inspiring awe and wonder. This awe and wonder, in turn, can be harnessed through social engineering to aggregate more gold until the Earth can't provide any more, at which point it would be necessary to create more by some means or risk losing the (financial) benefits of all that awe and wonder. Discovering the nature of how physical form correlates with emotional and spiritual experience seems to be at the core of the Great Work, but many leaders seem to have mistaken it for simply a way to obtain gold without extracting it from the Earth.

[@ArachneAnathema]

So hope that one day you will get together with a metallurgist and try this. Add to my regrets that I did not study chemistry in college.

[@francisdavid2771]

This video popped a question in my mind: let’s say these craftsmen produced the yellow metal (which chemically wouldn’t be gold) - were the people of the time aware that it wasn’t gold or for all intents and purposes it was seen as gold? I am an ignorant in the field so excuse my question if it is silly. Loving your videos - watching them in order from the first available (also already a Patron!)

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i know you get tired of hearint it....outsanding...well paced...very well done...thank you..

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Thanks for saying so, Paul!

[@necromancyteacher2481]

The whoever understands this shall be blessed part is interesting. I mean some people are a tad dismissive of the idea that alchemists were encoding mystical practices in chemical terminology, but for example if you read Cultivating the Tao by Liu Yiming and then read the modern Taoist Alchemy of Wang Liping on whom the biography Enter the Dragon Gate was also written and you can see just how these alchemists tend to refer to certain practices in very obscure and chemical terms which the inheritors of their tradition understand to be primarily mystical practices.

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Fantastic research

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[@TheMtheAtotheKIN]

I always thought the esoteric meaning of alchemy was more so related to “mental transmutation”, turning your thoughts into “gold”, rather than turning base metal into gold. Can you explain this?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

This is a much later reinterpretation of alchemy first made in the 19th century and then later expanded by the new age movement. I have an episode about misconceptions of alchemy that covers this if you are interested.

[@tallisharrill1671]

@@TheEsotericaChannel But even in Zosimus the two are entertwined. It's the *exclusively* mental/spiritual interpretation that is later and faulty. I look forward to hearing more of your wonderful episodes.

[@mdevilden]

Dr Sledge. Thank you for producing and posting scholarly educational videos. This is all so very new to me and so very interesting. I have much to catch up. Just wondering... do you have any knowledge/material about ancients finding and using fallen meteor rocks and stones? Have you discussed this in a previous episode?

[@yochanan770]

I would love to see a video discussing the Mutus Liber. It's always been a fascinating work. Thanks so much for the awesome suggested (required) reading list. I will be putting this in my cart soon.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yep, I'll be getting to most major alchemical texts as I build out the channel. Just takes time!

[@hedgehog3180]

11:13 Kinda reminds me of gold nanoparticles, by controlling the size of gold particles you can produce different colors and it turns out that you can find them in the stained glass of European cathedrals.

[@jaredfarney675]

Thanks! I'm interested in Egyptian Alchemy.

[@shemuelthesabbatian1254]

Really informative video! Love your channel! :)

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Thanks for saying so, friend!

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Dear Dr. Sledge, your lectures are not only the truth as best as anyone could make them, extremely informative and entertaining. When I can afford to send you support I give you my word I will send you a support payment showing my appreciation. I learn more about the truth in one lecture than I would in entire semester college books with their high percentage of misinformation put in and most of the true pertenant facts taken out. Keep up the great work. NimoysDogSpock a.k.a. John Fryer

[@benedictbotchey1654]

I read loved this video and how you flowed with the story with reason and history. I wonder if you already did the metal work to make it ✨

[@anon_lightworker6618]

I enjoy your videos friend, thankyou for the insights into the esoteric in history, philosophy and religion ;p

[@jasminenwhitaker9717]

Great job brother

[@MrKago1]

part of me is waiting for you to say when you do the book plugs, "These books might interest you, but you don't have to take my word for it..." dammit, now I have that song stuck in my head. also, thanks for the book tips and the links. I've already begun reading the Sefer HaRazim. You're right, this stuff is endlessly fascinating.

[@yochanan770]

I didn't pay close enough attention to the opening in other videos. Now I know that you also enjoy Le Fee Vert.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yep! I'll probably be doing an episode on the lait du Jura at some point as well!

[@hedgehog3180]

6:11 Looks a bit like Eurypterid to me so you could call it “The Formula of the Sea Scorpion”. Also does have some Cambrian vibes, like the long lost brother of Anomalocaris so you could also call it “The Formula of the Weirder Shrimp”.

[@georgemokbel5844]

What is the difference between zosimos of Panopolis gold manufacturing and Jabir ibn Hayyan gold manufacturing?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Great question - I'll be making a video on the Summa Perfectionis in the coming weeks!

[@JDG602]

I wonder if you are still going to make a video on Zosimos? I did a search but did not see one but I could be mistaken. I really hope so I have been reading a bit and he sounds like a fascinating person and I am very curious about some of the connections with some of the esoteric teachings and his visions and a lot more! Amazing work by the way very interesting as always.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yep, at some point!

[@alexandriaorcld6365]

Was the video specifically about Zosimos ever made? I'd be very curious to see, as I have been studying him.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Going to happen eventually!

[@alexandriaorcld6365]

@@TheEsotericaChannel Thank you for the response!

[@Everythingallthetime666]

6 means to allow to separate from solution and 7 to seperate, then each section is to be produced through the same process then recombined.

[@JBoss44]

What do you mean when you say Greeco Egyptian?

[@hedgehog3180]

Hell yeah time for my favourite late classical and medieval empire, the Eastern Roomans baby!

[@jasminenwhitaker9717]

Thank you

[@helenbostock2350]

Amazing so long ago the science Wow

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yep, ancient people were smarter than we them give credit for

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[@magusalbus5146]

Lawrence Principe is doing this work.

[@jhnndrs8832]

The fifth symbol looks very much like an Horseshoe crab!

[@shanevioletflame2211]

I enjoy your videos very much Dr.Sledge and look forward to grabbing a beer with you sometime soon my good sir.#Gooniesneversaydie....

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boy im glad ik french

[@jeffd7976]

Ok. Yeah. yer good.

[@melvinbrumski1446]

Is it a coincidence that the first symbol (pay attention) looks like an ear? As in “listen up!”

[@tijean93]

Maybe it's Cthulhu.

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Hi justin

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[@smellycow6]

they used it to make nice art work? is this where the Lead into Gold concept came from? the formula of the Crab is it? Maybe they even put them in these "hidden" formulas to stop people making fake Gold and other things

[@vazak11]

(OO)

[@vazak11]

Also seeing a practical application would be so cool

[@eldraque4556]

the new theory about the pryamids being poured is an intresting take on the philosophers stone

[@joshbarnett2189]

So know one knows what they are saying , it’s obvious point blank what they are doing the formula , I’ll give a hints one the Crab an the Scorpion look up at the stars and ready about the signs briefly, 2 it is the Basis For life on this planet an that’s nonnegotiable because we are surrounded by it everyday it’s likely right beneath your feat depending on where you live , what era your home was built an how good or slack the builders where , you can live without electricity this you can not live without every life form on the planet needs it , so yeah I can’t believe the EGYPTIANS where doing this but the the Romans had it the person empire had it just not this close to as modern as today