Alchemy traces its roots back to the Egyptian civilisation where it emerged as a practising art and science and an expression of the Egyptian religion. Thus it was that the Egyptian Thoth, the god of mathematics and science, became the inspirational source for the Hellenistic figure of Hermes Trismegistus, who in turn became the model for the medieval Mercurius. The Greeks learned their Alchemy...

77 T he individual biological organism is more than a mere aggregate of disparate body functions. Angyal (1941) remarked that there are no irrelevant properties to the component subunits of a biological organism. The feature is a definitive characteristic of systemic organizations. The idea of transformation of an aggregate of functions to a system was used by Sri Aurobindo in order to explicat...

This seems simple enough, but let’s play with this definition. The Pythagoreans, an ancient sect of mathematical mystics, said that a number is perfect if it equals the sum of its positive integral divisors, excluding itself. For example, 6 = 1 + 2 + 3and 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14are perfect numbers. On the other hand, 10 is not perfect because 1 + 2 + 5 = 8, and 12 is not perfect because 1+2+3+4...

in islam, the world and hereafter life, plurality and unity, and inner and outer part each has its own place. islamic spirituality as an inner knowledge finds connection with islamic social idea. the purpose of which is a kind of social education and human life edification in all aspects, because, in view of the gnostics, the outer and inner worlds have longitudinal relationship.the mystics in ...

How does the Third Solitude of Montreal Mystics engender a tearing self, at once, away from other and inscribing within Canadian landscape? The motif is used as comparative lens for investigating shroud two Jewish Mystics: Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) current Tosher rebbe, Rabbi Elimelech Halevi Segal-Loewy, well his late father, Meshulam Feish Segal-Loewy (1924–2015). This essay analyzes process ...