Alchemy - Maria the Jewess & Prophet - Greco Egyptian Alchemy & Hermetic Philosophy 

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I'm am aspiring pastry chef and I love listening to your videos as I bake! I think its so neat that the Bain Marie (melting a mixture such as egg whites and sugar in a bowl placed above boiling water) has an alchemical history!!! So cool!

Thank you for making this and for elevating Maria Prophetissima. I've been seeking sources of information on her in particular for quite some time. It's helpful to provide peripheral historical context and inferences about her world. In a discipline so heavily dominated by the voices of men, it cannot be said enough that women alchemists exist.

Maria Hebrea said that nations perish out of the lack of alchemical knowledge. She was a great example for Jews seeking after a kosher alchemy.

The grafting together of divine feminine and masculine waa the ultimate goal of the early alchemists. The symbology cannot be denied.

Having been a lifetime scholar of early alchemy up to the 18th century, I have been excitedly waiting for this video! I can’t wait to watch it!!

Man, it's amazing how much my lab owes to Maria - we study the organic chemistry of wine and whiskey, so her tools and skills are invaluable for us

great topic Dr., glad to see there was mention of Jung's psychology and alchemy. I don't know how interested you might be in Jung's psychology, but for future study or a future episode, Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis is an entire volume based around the alchemical symbol of the hermaprhodite. Definitely interesting stuff. Keep up the good work, love the content!

Women everywhere say Thank you Dr Sledge 🙏

I am quite pleased that I found this wonderful scholar on such a chilly morning in Indiana. As I work on my own process of transmutation into music, I am certain his knowledge and history will be a wonderful accompaniment :)

Truly, who among us doesn't know more about Hellenistic alchemy than modern Chemistry? (At least after this video. Thanks!) One must have *priorities*.

Her axiom runs, " One becomes Two, Two becomes Three, and out of the Third, comes The One as the Fourth. " Jung used the same formula for his works on the integration of the personality .

I love how you get into many important figures in these studies and subject matter. All too often History tends to overlook at how eccentric and esoteric studies influences Historical events and daily life of the people in the past, especially European History. Also, all too often women and children aren't included in History. You get in there and pull out as much information as possible and share it with the world, like a true Historian should. Thank you.

Also I gotta say that I love your occasional jokes and personal comments, it adds a lot to the video.

Thank you doctor, quality once again. I’ll become a Patron whenever I find a job (unlikely in the current lockdown...)

Fantastic video. Absolutely surprised at some of the characters, or should I say people you mentioned here. I'm always learning something new which I love.

My name is Maria and I just found out about her. This is really exciting! Thank you for another amazing video.....handsome clone 😜😃♥️♥️♥️ Edit: I'm Greek by the way Hahaha 😁

Happy Woman's History Month

Fascinating video. Probably enjoyed this one the most. Early alchemy is so interesting compared to the goofy charlatan wizards of medieval times, although those are fun too. Had no idea one of the most influential alchemists was a Jewish woman. It’s baffling that no one ever brought that up, but then again alchemists aren’t exactly around these days to propagate their traditions.

I've been looking forward to this lecture. It turned out to exceed my best expectations. Well done sir!

Fascinating as always Dr Sledge.

Thank you Dr. J. Wonderful as always. 🌞👍🇨🇦

I had no idea about the Bain-Marie! I’ll fondly thank her next time I melt chocolate.

This is an amazing video. One becomes two, from the two comes three, and out of the three comes the fourth. Jung used this idea to describe the quaternity and the ideas of wholeness and individuation. And he used the image and idea of Ouroboros frequently in his Collected Works

I just keep listening to these videos. It's slowly sinking in. I'll have to watch a few times. Thanks for the great content

Wonderfully done again, sir! I appreciate your content and dedication. Thank you for continuing to impress. Blessings!

That was very insightful. Thank you

What a great intersection for me! I came across Becoming Gold 2 years ago and was so engrossed. I wondered if you had read it. Your work here is so fulfilling to take in! Thank you once again.

That just washed my week away wonderfully thanks. Ready for the weekend now.

Now this was very educational. Thank you.

It's interesting how a lot of her inventions and the basic principles behind them are still used in chemistry, sorta like an Archimedes of chemistry.

Zosimust be Friday again.

Excellent, truly awesome

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Good show!

I think the first time I heard about Maria the Jewess was in Andy Collin's "The Black Alchemist". Which was a great account of two guys psychic investigation into some weird stuff going on in the English countryside.

Thank Dr. for helping me better understand the influence of esotericism and its history on the production of Western culture.

Love thy humor brother

This is great stuff. Thanks for posting! I didn't know she predated Jabir

Thank you!

Thank you sir 🙏

Hey Justin! I love your channel, have been bingewatching for like two weeks now. I study philosophy and I do know the dream of walking through Alexandria, especially the library. I saw a video recently, where an archeologist reviewed the Assasins Creed version of Alexandria (and Athens) and said, it would be suprisingly accurate from what we know. Maybe consider playing it or watching a walkthrough! My philologist husband played it and said the accents are somewhat goofy, considering they weren’t even speaking English and it does not make sense, but we love the game. ❤

Thanks!

Engagement metric +1 thank you for your ‘Work’

Man. My algorithms are really tryin to tell me something, lately. I have chill bumps. These things come up just as I'm needing them to. Like breadcrumbs of manna in heaven.

Fascinating!!!!!!

we also use her name in spanish: baño maria

Great! At last we have an alchemist that did some real alchemy and developed useful chemicals such as acids. It begs the question though, dont you think that they would have tried to keep their formulas and methods secret? We do the same thing today and commercialism was no different in ancient times in fact if anything it was more brutal! How do you think they did that and what evidence do we have?

You're not the only one who dreams about The walking tour in Alexandria in about 200 CE. . .

7:13 tbf Hebrew letters are constantly used in modern math and physics as variables and so on, similar to how Greek letters are used so there might be something similar going on there.

Great video. To be honest I was hoping you were going to find some cool obscure book somewhere that spoke more about Maria the great.

"Maria The Jewess" sounds like an intense title, much more than "Maria the female Jew".

Are you a professor? I have not watched all of your videos, but I would be interested to know more about how you got to this point in your life. What educational path did you take? What is your profession? What drew you to all of these topics?

Another day and wonder ful exposition. I have long been intrigued by Alexandrian alchemy and don't subscribe to the view alchemy largely came out of a Roman context. I think the link from ancient Egyptian via Alexandria and thence through Arabia is obvious.

Hello Dr. Sledge. Can you please cover some of the texts written by Paracelsus?

Could you cover Hildegard van Bingen?

Very interesting video and channel. I subscribed. The Surah Maryam, Quran 19, refers to Mary the mother of Jesus as the sister of Aaron. 19:28. Islam also refers to Maryam as the daughter of Imran (Amran), the father of Moses and Aaron. Quran 3; Ex 6:20. Modern scholarly consensus rejects the identity of Miriam the Prophetess, Maria the Prophetess, and the Virgin Mary but I think the idea has validity. In logic one calls reasoning by consensus the bandwagon fallacy. The most difficult of all fallacies to overcome because of human nature and our desire to belong to the group, particularly groups we spent years trying to join, like academia. Thomas Kuhn discusses this phenomenon in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The Cathar text called The Secret Supper or the Interrogatio Iohannis, a conversation with Jesus, says: "But when Satan learned that I had come down to this world, he sent his angel to take Three pieces of wood. These he gave to the prophet Moses for my crucifixion. This wood they have kept for me until the present." In this version Moses has his sister's child crucified (or his followers; I think followers). It shortens history by a couple thousand years also. The alchemist Isaac Newton spent most of his life trying to prove historical time needed massive shortening. The Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko argues that our historical records go back no more than a thousand years. Who knows? Not me. I have made a few videos trying to sort it out. Strange that Abraham's son Isaac went blind and Abraham ben David of Posquieres, the great Kabbalist, had a son named Isaac the Blind, another major Kabbalist.

I heard u mention a alchemist named Cleopatra do you have any videos on her ?

What is the name of the movie about Maria? You mentioned that one exists but not the title. Thank you!

The pic at bottom left at 15:11 reminds me of a cross or ank or the symbol for antimony. Look at its top that T shape an the small circle above it. The bottom right one reminds me too of one of the pics in the riply scroll those holes are part of the sive of this furnace. Could she really been saint Germaine a woman poseing as a man at the time?

i've been conceptualizing sulphur and salt as "male" and "female," with the elastic mercury being the product of the conjunction :O interesting.

Damn girl was not a joke.

12:21 hell yeah!

The Sledge Hammer, smashing through obscurity

Gotta make sure you keep your eagle chained to that toad! The mysterious herb in question is likely manna (think Exodus), or as the Egyptians referred to it, mfkt. It's a bit of a rabbit hole, but the archeological findings of Sir Flinders Petrie at Serabit el-Khadim is a good starting point for anyone interested.

Looking at the smoke in the picture of maria the jewes looks like hands praying ?

I think she was a cook. Like me one day she might have seen some mold in a can. She imagined took her on a journey of studing it. What mole why can it heal the body. What other can nature produce Can we play with natural. It a through in my mind when I saw moled in a tin in my kitchen. I recycle. Egyptian has its right way to use this product. History is fascinating.

Would you ever consider a patreon stretch goal so we could buy you the rights to use Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" as your theme song?

May I ask a stupid question? What does the material transformation of matter have to do with Religion, philosophy and esoterica. Pardon my ignorance but it feels like cooking recipes being provided in a church service...what am I missing plz? Thankyou in advance.

wonder if turning lead into gold could also be a metaphor for giving things value, or selling something, perception of value, marketing, pet rock anyone?

16:56 I wonder if she believed this for purely religious reasons or if there was maybe some climate explanation. Like in a pre-industrial world where you don't have ACs or fumehoods the weather would certainly play a key role in any attempted chemistry. Reminds me of how Extractions & Ire had to deal with humidity adding a ton of water to his unpurified cubane since he was working out of a shed.

'Now we're talkin' alchemy.'

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Who is Saint Issa.... Very Little information. 🙏🙏🙏

Was there any reason given for why alchemy only worked in March or April?

You wouldn’t happen to know if any experiments have been done while using the glass container/boiling method while also applying different concentrated sound frequencies? Just curious 😂

Calling Hero the inventor of the steam engine is a bit misleading since the Aereopile was unable to perform useful work.

Being a bit broken to do the work, like the "wounded healer" shaman.

Common era?

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Bitcoin wallet? Wonderful work 🔺

I knew they had atomic knowledge back then but I had no idea they knew about ionic bonds! There just had to be a more ancient source they were developing upon, maybe something long lost from ancient Africa

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Citation needed on the claim that alchemy was about spiritual transformation.I don't see much in any of the alchemists you mention that supports Atwood.

The name Maria has a kinship to music and sound. Its all a vibration.

becoming gold is a 50 dollar book.

I imagine you get push back from conservative religious groups for dealing with such facsinating material...✋

Thank you!