Nigredo is the initial phase of the alchemical process, the abandonment of all old habits, relationships and dependencies of the material world outside.

Those who have not this Hand and do not understand its secret signs... they do not possess the philosophers' treasure.

We have arrived at the second stage of the Great Work: albedo, or whiteness. The alchemist has discovered within himself the source from which his life comes forth.

female national personification of the United States.

 In order to make it come alive it must have ‘blood’, it must have what the alchemists called the rubedo, the ‘redness’ of life. 

he duality of Angels vs. Demons lies within each of us on a daily basis.