What This Section Gathers

This section gathers matter and mind as esoteric and philosophical traditions have described them, apart from the sciences that now claim much of the same ground. Periodic Elements, Alchemical Substances and Alchemical Principles cover matter itself, mundane and esoteric; Alchemical Apparatus, Alchemical Operations and the Magnum Opus Stages cover the practice and sequence of the Great Work; Hermetic Principles and Metaphysical Positions cover the philosophical claims made about reality's structure; Subtle Energies and Psi Phenomena cover forces and effects claimed to lie outside ordinary physical description; Studies records the investigations, historical and modern, that have tested some of these claims, and Scholarly Disciplines names the academic fields that study this cluster rather than practice or claim it.