We live in an era rife with cultural conflict. The 21st century is by no means free of wars, terrorism, riots, famine, nor epidemics. We may attempt to solve the challenges of our times by uniting the humanistic disciplines of philosophy, science, and technology. Our modern reality requires a fundamental understanding of the problems beleaguering our existence. Science and literature are key tools for gaining this insight. The wisdom accumulated throughout the centuries by scientists, phil...

The anonymous treatise The Stone of the Philosophers, most likely dating from the 17th century, was included by Arthur Edward Waite - a British poet, writer, Freemason, esotericist and one of the greatest scholars of the Western Mystery Tradition - in his Collectanea Chemica, a collection of some curious Alchemical treatises which was published in London in 1893. According to the preface, Waite found these treatises in a manuscript belonging to a collector of occult books...

This short treatise was accounted by some of the Fathers as next to Holy Scripture. It was rediscovered in 1873 by a Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Nicomedia, in the codex from which, in 1875, he had published the full text of the Epistles of St. Clement. An old Latin translation was found in 1900. For convenience the contents may be divided into three parts: the first is the Two Ways, the Way of Life and the Way of Death; the second part is a rituale dealing with baptism, fasting, and Hol...