The ancient Greeks did not have a general word for “matter,” only words for specific types of matter. Aristotle took the word for lumber and adapted it to mean matter, in general. In alchemy it is also called the “First Matter,” is the source of the four elements, and is identical to the “Philosopher’s Stone.”
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...