Egyptosophy

Magic, Alchemy, and Hermeticism
“The now mythologized doctrines of Egypt, seem to have been the original source of others more ennobling and hieroglyphic discoveries have traced, and are tracing them far beyond the era of the pyramids, to an unknown limit, but to a pure, sacred, and divine source.… When the art of writing was unknown, the primeval Egyptians resorted to symbols and emblems to express their faith; and these, as correctly interpreted,... Read more »
Earlier Egyptian amuletic traditions reach a culmination in the Graeco-Egyptian...
The uroboros was resurrected in western iconography with the discovery of a...
Three Aramaic incantation bowls, also called “magic bowls.” Bowls such as these...
In Allegory of Life, Guido Cagnacci has depicted a semi-nude woman surrounded...
Kircher was a prolific but academically uneven Jesuit scholar whose work...
Athanasius Kircher was a prodigious Jesuit scholar who authored over forty...
The German Orientalist painter Karl Wilhelm Gentz here juxtaposes the...
A book illustrator and muralist, American artist Violet Oakley captures the...
Graeco-Roman religion equated the Egyptian god Thoth, patron of scribes and...
Dating to the Ptolemaic Period, this mummy mask juxtaposes the continuity of...
Koemer has captured the Temple of Karnak in all of its majesty, here painting...
Inés Ramírez de Asbaje, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51–1695...
The stela to the left shows the treasury official Sobekhotep who erected this...
Born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy on January 19, 1897, Natacha Rambova pursued...
Bull’s head amulets are the most common Predynastic type of pendant (Hendrickx...