Good day dear community, I hope you all have a weekend that is full of positive experiences and you are otherwise doing well! In this post, I would like to devote myself to alchemy again and hope you can learn new things.
Alchemy was considered an occult science and was not popular with everyone and alchemists were often strongly suppressed or persecuted and especially female alchemists had a particularly difficult time and were strongly oppressed and led a life in the shadow of men. The best-known alchemists are all of male origin and this can be attributed to the fact that female alchemists had to be particularly careful because when they were discovered they often had to reckon with bad things such as burns and therefore in old writings, you will find only a few women who had specialized in alchemy and many writings can no longer be found or were destroyed and tracking the exact traces was very difficult, nevertheless, there are numerous traces of female figures that have been discovered. Records show that the female alchemists came from different social levels and there were also many rulers who promoted alchemy or practiced it themselves and the research was very similar to men and it was about understanding chemical processes, refining metals or preparing medicine. Also the inner alchemy where it was about the own transformation had an important meaning and it can be said that the way of working was very similar except that the women moved much more into the background and pursued this occult science from the shadow. According to my research, some female alchemists have used pseudonyms to be able to record their works in writings more safe and have worked extremely intelligently that one does not expose them and the Alchemists from higher societies probably dealt with it more openly and one of the best-known female alchemists was probably Cleopatra who is said to come from Egypt similar to the pharaoh and she is even said to have succeeded in creating the Philosopher's Stone and she has mainly dealt with practical alchemy. Some were even very revolutionary and fought against oppression in their lifetime, however, this was not easy because they were often defamed or wrongly called witches and certain constructs were particularly interested in destroying the work of them and therefore one can only guess how many more female alchemists existed who were completely ignored and their work has never been recognized. Other well-known female alchemists are Marie le Jars de Gourney, Christina of Sweden, Martine Bertereau, Marie Meudrac, Isabella Cortese, Blanche of Narvarra, Sophie Brahe and many more.
Thank you 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
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