Hey dear Community, I would like to welcome you all to my new post and hope you had a positive weekend and a great start to the new week! In this post, I would like to talk a little about alchemy and hope you are able to expand your knowledge.
In alchemy, knowledge of certain characters was of great importance and thus the alchemists dealt a lot with the alphabets from ancient cultures and they thought that these writings could come from divine traditions. It was thought that this knowledge about the writings once became transmissions from communication with the spiritual world and they explored exactly old writings and assumed that these would contain secret messages that had to be deciphered to get answers. In all cultures in which alchemy was practiced, this understanding was very formative and so in ancient Egypt, China or Europe the origin of different characters was discussed and in addition, countless methods have emerged to decipher these writings and later they were also considered as a way to communicate with each other to record their recipes or other knowledge. It was also found that the characters from the different cultures have numerous parallels and also the geometry or composition of characters was extremely interesting and the alchemists tried to analyze them more precisely with mathematical formulas and noticed that there had to be higher messages behind certain letters. Everywhere they found hidden messages and it was thought that in this form the knowledge of humanity could be hidden and from the different components of old characters a separate alphabet was later developed which served to shorten alchemical processes and record their work more easily.
Thanks for the visit and I hope you could learn something new about alchemy! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens.