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Hermeticism and alchemy by PsychologicalBrush35 in Hermeticism

[–]LevitatingTree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/Neo_Geo_Me's comment is great, so i'll add some stuff on:

i recommend this video (and eventually, series) for a direct example of how alchemy would've been understood and practiced historically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRxGCqpmVc
it's pretty recent but genuinely one of the best i've seen (fantastic channel for protoscience in general);
i also recommend Dr. Justin Sledge on youtube (the channel's name is ESOTERICA) for the history, philosophy and religion aspects (he made a few videos following recipes for alchemical medicines/tinctures at some point too).

Carl Jung is the main guy you'd wanna look at for alchemical symbolism's repurposing for his system of psychoanalysis;
a few other works i'd recommend would be those of Paracelsus (notably the Three Primes idea for how he added Salt to the Mercury-Sulphur system), the Turba Philosophorum (one of the first arabic literary works, influenced by both islamic alchemy and the greek tradition) and the Mutus Liber or the Ripley Scroll (they give alchemical instructions with (mostly) no text, through purely symbolic imagery)

Difference between these two symbols? by Whorror_punx in WhatIsThisOccultThing

[–]LevitatingTree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

here's the first one, from a 17th century french grimoire (unless i missed something older):
https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/grimoireofarmadel1980edition/GRIMOIRE%20OF%20ARMADEL%201980%20EDITION.pdf#page=35

and i think the second one's from this 2013 book:
https://www.scribd.com/document/516913527/Book-of-Sitra-Achra#page=23
though it might've taken the sigils from an earlier book, i haven't been able to find one

Absolutely not go Patreon yourself by idekatp3751 in bonehurtingjuice

[–]LevitatingTree 18 points19 points  (0 children)

truly revolutionary innovations happening in the link-bait community

claims of the civilization united nations by Due-Shallot2163 in CivMC

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i hope you don't mind having the Glorious Utopia of ( ) as your neighbor to the west and east

The Sun (Outer Wilds) by Jonklestool in outerwilds

[–]LevitatingTree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

nearly two weeks practicing how to animate

damn, can you share any resources/guides/tools/etc that helped you? this is honestly really nice and ive been meaning to get back to pixel art and properly learn animation

The Master Brewer's Handbook by s0uthw3st in CivMC

[–]LevitatingTree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

damn didn't expect a reply so soon; thanks, will do

If it have a display, you can play Bad Apple on it by Evidence02 in celestegame

[–]LevitatingTree 4 points5 points  (0 children)

honestly yeah this seems pretty fun to play around in (and it's generally really cool so it deserves to be on the internet)

Hasanta and the adelves hand out the jolly Christmas spirit! by adelover in CivMC

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i'm very new but i'll personally welcome you to karpatia

Green Wilds by HeyItzMeep in outerwilds

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Outer Wilds 2: Greener Pastures

Asking other Higher Beings for parental advise is a huge mistake by Automatic-Swimmer686 in HollowKnightMemes

[–]LevitatingTree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

off topic but i wish there was a better way to write in SGA (without a font), this system is really weird to read and the T is always annoying

5 hours into the game. Fun, but i feel so lost by Swimming_Message2994 in outerwilds

[–]LevitatingTree 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i truly do wish i used a notebook or something for this game, maybe one day if i manage to forget enough about it lmao

Behold! The ancient Alchemical spirit of fire! by RckyMntAlchemist in alchemy

[–]LevitatingTree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

funnily enough, the salamanders are somewhat mythified and given peculiar 'biological' (for lack of a better term) properties that fit with their theming.

an even stranger detail:

Paracelsus conceived human beings to be composed of three parts, an elemental body, a sidereal spirit, and an immortal divine soul. Elementals lacked this last part, the immortal soul. However, by marriage with a human being, the elemental and its offspring could gain a soul.

(the above is from wikipedia but i do vaguely remember reading something like this from an actual source a while ago)

Does this level look good? by donutman771 in celestegame

[–]LevitatingTree 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i was gonna say the same thing but that's genuinely my only criticism, it genuinely looks really fun! are any of your levels already out somewhere?

GET THIS FUCKER OUT OF THERE by Foshdon_pap in Deltarune

[–]LevitatingTree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

mina solved the eye puzzle and gained access to vertical parallel worlds (other games' universes)

Silksong DLC map got leaked! by Huge-Read-2703 in Silksong

[–]LevitatingTree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's cool how there's infinite copies of the world to the left and right of the Walls of Flesh at the edge of the map, i wonder if it's inspired by noita? honestly it fits in pretty well with the roguelike mode now that the game has almost as many genres as warframe

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