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Image: The fall of Icarus - Peter Paul Rubbens My relationship with the divine is a path filled with quests and identity crises. Six years ago, I was an Umbanda practitioner conflicted by the religion's whitened origins; I asked Exu to reconnect me with my own ancestry, to move away from that feeling of cultural 'theft.' The answer came unexpectedly: a vivid dream of Apollo, confirmed by a Hellenist friend, which opened the doors to a dialogue with the Greek gods. What began

In antiquity, alchemy was a practice that brought together various fields of knowledge, such as chemistry, philosophy, spirituality, and mysticism. The alchemical process was full of symbolism and stages (calcination, dissolution, separation, and conjunction of opposites) to create something entirely new and superior. The ultimate goal of alchemy was the philosopher's stone, which turned lead into gold and could grant eternal life. Although times have changed, we preserve des