The Path of Alchemy, Mark Stavish
The Path of Alchemy, Mark Stavish
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The Path of Alchemy
Energetic Healing & the World of Natural Magic

Author: Mark Stavish

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/10/2020


Synopsis

Alchemy offers tremendous insight into alternative therapies, new medicines, and the depths of the human mind. Illuminating a truly esoteric practice, Mark Stavish reveals how to create and apply "medicines for the soul" in this remarkable guide to plant and mineral alchemy.

The Path of Alchemy introduces the history and basic laws of this ancient practice, and explains how it ties into Qabala, tarot, astrology, and the four elements. Safe, modern techniques—based on spagyrics (plant alchemy)—for producing distillations, stones, tinctures, and elixirs are given, along with their uses in physical healing, spiritual growth, psychic experiments, initiation, consecration, spellwork, and more. Each chapter includes meditations, projects, and suggested reading as aids to "inner transformation," an equally important aspect of alchemy. Tools, rituals, lunar and solar stones, and the elusive Philosopher's Stone are all covered in this comprehensive guide to alchemy.

About Mark Stavish

Mark Stavish is a respected authority on Western spiritual traditions. The author of twenty-six books, published in seven languages, including The Path of Alchemy and Kabbalah for Health and Wellness, he is the founder and director of the Institute for Hermetic Studies and the Louis Claude de St. Martin Fund. He has appeared on radio shows, television, and in major print media, including Coast to Coast AM, the History Channel, BBC, and the New York Times. The author of the blog VOXHERMES, he lives in Wyoming, Pennsylvania.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brett on October 01, 2022

This was a clear, informative, and a good starting point to someone interested in learning alchemy. This was my first time reading something about this so all of it was new. Mark Stavish explained the history and basic laws of alchemy (sulphur, salt, mercury), spagyrics and plant chemistry, distilla......more

Goodreads review by Layo on May 29, 2010

This is an engaging, entertaining book, very accessible and a pleasure to read. This, unfortunately, functions as a seductive allurement to misleading or incomplete laboratory alchemy instructions. I was willing to overlook certain odd techniques such as using sea salt as the basis for a plant stone......more

Goodreads review by Deena on December 16, 2007

Are you working the rites in the FOI Spiral of Alchemy? Do you wish you had a better understanding of alchemy, so that you could organize your studies appropriately as well as deepen your awareness of the message of each rite? This book can help bring you up to speed very quickly. I own some wonderfu......more

Goodreads review by Edric on February 20, 2019

A detailed and thorough guide to Alchemy. The Paths of Alchemy was very interesting and detailed as it covers most of what you’d need to know and study. If you are interested in Alchemy, this is most certainly a good book to begin your journey with.......more

Goodreads review by Araminta on September 12, 2024

This book has some relatively useful practical guidelines, but they are presented in that classic alchemical way where the author expects you to have a great deal of prior knowledge and does not offer any sense of explanation that gratifies the need to understand the distinct purpose behind anything......more