The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
6 teachers
Alchemy
Western Alchemy Tradition
Material-spiritual transmutation (as above, so below)
c. 100 CE - 1700 CE (Hellenistic through early modern)
Alchemy
Zosimos of Panopolis
Inner transmutation of the soul revealed through dream
fl. c.300
Alchemy
Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim)
Imagination as a real causal agent in body and world
1493-1541
Alchemy
Heinrich Khunrath
The prayer-laboratory: ora et labora as a single path
c.1560-1605
Alchemy
Michael Maier
Alchemy as a sensory, multi-media meditation
1568-1622
Alchemy
Thomas Vaughan
The anima mundi as the living soul animating all things
1621-1666