A dark laboratory.
A glowing alchemical potion.
And a legend that still unsettles historians.
The tale of Auriol’s cursed elixir is one of the strangest stories from the world of medieval alchemy.
Did he truly discover forbidden knowledge… or did his experiment unleash something far darker?
If you love mysterious history and strange legends, this story will keep you thinking.
The Renaissance believed reality was alive.
Natural Magic taught that hidden sympathies bind all things — stars to stones, mind to matter, symbol to substance.
Centuries later, quantum physics whispers: everything is connected.
Maybe magic wasn’t fantasy.
Maybe it was early science.
Failed Magnum Opus.
I took a break from MHST3 to make the most self indulgent sona art I could think of
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About not doing anything.
You are allowed to not doing.
We tend to mistake stillness for stagnation.
Not doing anything is part of the process,
It’s a moment required to let the energies reorganize and adapt, to let our system, our complex and intricate system to adopt a new way of being.
Having a realization about yourself or about anything else is not the final product.
When you finally find the answers about something give yourself the time to go through the process, you will most likely be unable to make a move or to adopt a new way of doing things immediately and that’s normal, it may look like inability to make moves but it’s an illusion, if you turn an eye on your inner self you will notice that a lot it’s happening.
It’s your entire system that is changing to adapt to the new truth you have found in order to give you back the tools to operate in a different way but we always fail to understand this process because we don’t see an immediate change in the tangible world and we sabotage this delicate process happening within and we inevitably find ourselves back to square.
We need to develop the ability to recognize inner movement and to give it the value it deserves because it’s where everything that we project in our 3D world starts… beliefs, biases, values ecc… We need to reconnect to our inner world.
We have to do it for ourselves and for the evolution of humanity.
Less absorbing and automatic responses
More observing and understanding of the process that is shaping us and our reality .
Blessings to everyone.⭐️
P.S I am a tarot and oracle reader, if you want to ask me a question in private I will be very happy to give you a mini reading for free.
I really love to use cards but I don’t find myself in a place where people understand the value of this tool for personal growth and introspection so I don’t have may opportunities to read card for people for personal development and growth, they are usually attached to very toxic people and patterns so I get always the same kind of questions “it’s my boyfriend cheating on me?” “it’s my ex going to contact me again?” , so if you are interested in asking a question for personal growth in whatever area of your life feel free to contact me!!
Thank you! ⭐️
-Lily xx
What if the walls of the cathedrals have been speaking to us for centuries?
The name Fulcanelli has fascinated seekers of mystery and spirituality for nearly a century. It is the enigmatic pen name of a supposed French alchemist and occult author who appeared in the early 20th century—and then seemed to vanish just as mysteriously. His true identity has never been conclusively proven, which is precisely why he remains one of the most intriguing figures in modern alchemy and esoteric history. ⚗️
In his remarkable book Le Mystère des Cathédrales (The Mystery of the Cathedrals), Fulcanelli invites readers to see the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe through entirely new eyes. According to him, these majestic structures are far more than religious monuments or architectural masterpieces. They are “books written in stone,” containing layers of hidden knowledge left behind by ancient masters. 📜
Fulcanelli believed that the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages were not merely craftsmen or architects. In his view, they were guardians of an ancient wisdom—one that they carefully encoded in sculptures, reliefs, and symbolic imagery. Instead of writing their teachings openly, they expressed them through what he called the “language of the birds,” a mysterious symbolic code understood only by initiates.
To the ordinary visitor, a cathedral may appear to be a place of prayer and beauty. But to those who know how to read its symbols, Fulcanelli suggested it becomes something much deeper: a map of spiritual transformation. 🌟 🔮
One of the central ideas of his work is that Gothic cathedrals are actually repositories of alchemical knowledge. The carvings that decorate their walls—gargoyles, saints, animals, and mythical creatures—are not random ornaments. In Fulcanelli’s interpretation, they represent stages of the Great Work, the alchemical process of transformation that symbolizes both the refinement of matter and the awakening of human consciousness.
Take Notre-Dame de Paris, for example. In Fulcanelli’s eyes, this iconic cathedral becomes something like a vast symbolic laboratory. Every arch, statue, and relief can be seen as a clue, forming a visual guide to the hidden science of spiritual rebirth.
He also proposed that medieval craftsmen belonged to secret traditions that preserved ancient knowledge inherited from lost civilizations. Because openly sharing this wisdom might have been dangerous in their time, they concealed it within art and architecture—leaving behind a puzzle meant for future generations to decode.🧩
What makes Fulcanelli’s vision so captivating is the possibility it raises: that the monuments we think we know may contain layers of meaning that most people never notice. Beneath the familiar surfaces of history, religion, and art could lie a forgotten message about transformation, wisdom, and humanity’s search for the divine.
And it leaves us with a haunting question: What if the walls of the cathedrals have been speaking to us for centuries—and we are only now beginning to understand their language? 🔎✨📜
Anselm Kiefer. The Alchemists, 2026
A tribute to women alchemists often condemned to invisibility
I really fell for this. He looks so fatherly I just assumed he could do it 😔
The boundary between magic and science was never clear.
Alchemy laboratories were the prototypes of chemistry labs. Ritual magicians were obsessive experimenters. Astrology slowly evolved into astronomy.
In this Randomness Reloaded episode, we explore how the mystical became measurable.
Were magicians the first scientists?
I was looking for material about the technology and equipment available during the Victorian era and discovered this catalogue from 1840 is accessible in its entirety on The Science History Institute (Museum and Library). Something about the engravings really stirs my imagination. It’s also quite amusing that the entire thing is really an advertisement for Palmer’s instruments, and so the accompanying text is not always unbiased.
We live in this world in fragments and have been made from fragments. Therefore, grasp one thing after another, and you will see the whole. The first piece of advice is the eyes, which are infected by everything they look at. Thus, the eyes work in the thing they look at, and the thing works in turn in the eyes.
But darkness is hidden in the center of light. O man, why does the world feel too confining to you?
You want to possess it alone, and even if you had it, you still wouldn’t have enough room.
For God does not look at the exalted, for He alone is exalted, but He sees how to help the lowly.
No one is apart from another; only such a birth exists within, and thus one gives birth to another in and through himself. And this birth lasts from eternity to eternity. You cannot know of any place, neither in heaven nor in this world, where the divine birth is not thus present, everywhere and in all things. You must know here that the Godhead does not stand still, but works and ascends without ceasing, like a sweet wrestling, moving, and struggling, like two creatures playing together in great love, embracing or strangling each other. Now one is on top, now the other. And when one has overcome, it yields and lets the other stand again. In God, nearness and distance are one. Now God is in one place as in another. For everything that lives and floats is in God. Now, however, the Godhead is not separate from outward birth, but rather the Godhead is hidden in outward birth. For every human being is like the whole house of this world. Every human being is free and is like their own god, whether they transform themselves in this life into anger or into light. For you must not say: Where is God? Listen, you blind person, you live in God and God is in you; and if you live a holy life, then you yourself are God. Wherever you look, there is God.
The gates of divinity in the heavens above are nothing other, nothing brighter, than in this world. When all of divinity moved toward creation in this world, not only did one part move while another remained at rest, but everything was simultaneously in motion, the entire depth. Therefore, consider that the birth of nature still stands today and is thus born as it first began. I do not see such knowledge with physical eyes, but with the eyes where life is born within me.
Human flesh is and signifies nature in the body of God. The body is the mother of the spirit. Where this entire being is not God, you are not God’s image; where any foreign god exists, you have no part in him. For you were created from this God, and when you die, you will be buried in this God. And these same births have no beginning (…) and according to this depth, God himself does not know what he is.
It is a dark abyss.
Excerpts from Aurora by
Jakob Böhme (1612)
“Within burning embers, the remnants of burning passion reigns; kindling in the depths of soot, transitioning like an apparition which engulfs the air of its elusive nature, for it rules unnoticed and invisible— to the trained eye, however; it is a sight to behold, to watch as it dances in pure ecstacy in the freedom of its own rite. Swirling above like a beast in sumpter. The veil begins to draw thin..
..a new dimension appears.”
~Mise-n-abyme
|Artwork: ‘Separation’ –Splendor Solis, Salomon Trismosin, 1532
You can’t be sovereign or steady in your self-knowing & agency if you are still self-betraying, investing in something or someone else, siding with what people say or want for acceptance, validation or approval.
Only in your svatantra, knowing what you know beyond all doubt can you live a life that is free & also sets the people around you free of having to be something for you, & having to carry your gold.
Taking your projections back is not easy, but is the way to mature self agency.
In any relation or conversation you will feel when you’ve misplaced yourself, your substance, your power, or gold & given it away to someone else.
Now that person has become a condition for your happiness.
Projection is also not entirely wrong, we must initially project, to foresee if someone coming into our space is safe or dangerous for us.
But a time comes we must claim ourselves & stand in our own god-likeness, our true will, & live from the voice of the soul.
just some sketches I did on a road trip and hunters hair through out the series
