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  Video: AI decoding the Voynich
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10 hours ago - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"For over six centuries, the Voynich Manuscript has defied codebreakers, linguists, mathematicians, and mystics. Its pages are filled with strange symbols, impossible plants, and cosmic diagrams that no one has ever understood—until now. In this The Secret Bible investigation, artificial intelligence dives deep into the manuscript’s hidden patterns: linguistic fractals, sacred proportions, acoustic resonances, and celestial maps. Could this ancient book be a coded medical treatise, an alchemical map of the universe… or a message meant to be unlocked only by a non-human mind? Join us as AI reveals secrets that may change how we see history, consciousness, and the very nature of knowledge itself."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObeVLpCtdBk

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  Video: The Alchemist Who Discovered Immortality: Nicolas Flamel
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11 hours ago - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"In 1382, a Parisian scribe named Nicolas Flamel claimed he turned mercury into gold. He recorded the exact date and time: January 17th, at noon. Three months later, he did it again. And suddenly, this middle-class bookseller became mysteriously wealthy—so wealthy that he built hospitals, funded churches, and constructed houses that still stand in Paris today. His house at 51 Rue de Montmorency is the oldest in Paris, covered in alchemical symbols no one has decoded. His grave was found empty centuries after his death. And for over 600 years, people have reported seeing him alive—in Paris, in India, at the opera in 1761, always the same age."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LTD5QtLVHo

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  An 18th-century chemical laboratory in Paris
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11 hours ago - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"An 18th-century chemical laboratory in Paris, showing instruments, furnaces, chemical vessels, and chemists, c. 1760. Alchemical symbols are arranged below in a kind of proto-periodic table. From 'Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences' by Diderot."


https://tinyurl.com/muz699jv

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  The Book of Doors Divination Deck
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11 hours ago - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

An Alchemical Oracle from Ancient Egypt

"The Book of Doors presents an entirely new divination system that accesses the ancient knowledge of Egypt, enabling you to unlock your intuitive abilities and call upon the energy of the Egyptian deities, whose powers transform both matter and spirit"

https://www.deslegte.com/the-book-of-doo...k-4694922/

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  Conium maculatum (hemlock) in Ayurveda
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" In medieval Europe, alchemists occasionally referenced hemlock extracts for muscle spasms, though the line between remedy and poison was perilously thin. Curiously, despite its toxicity, some 16th-century Renaissance herbalists experimented with tiny seed infusions for tremor relief, believing that highly diluted doses might calm the nervous system. Such uses were often recorded in compendia like John Gerard’s "Herball" (1597), though warnings against oral ingestion were prominent. In Ayurvedic manuscripts from the 17th century, scribes in Bengal noted that Conium maculatum was not part of mainstream “Dhanvantari samhita” tradition but occasionally referenced in peripheral texts as a herb of last resort for severe rheumatic pain—used only after lengthy detox processes."

https://ask-ayurveda.com/hi/wiki/article...-maculatum

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  Video: The Alchemists and Their Cures: When Medicine Met Magic
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11 hours ago - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The alchemists of the Middle Ages searched for gold—but also for healing, purity, and the secret spark of life itself. Their laboratories glowed with strange colors, their notebooks mixed prayers with recipes, and every experiment blurred the line between faith and discovery."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5LJtRQZI7M

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  Alchemical Door of Rivodutri
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11 hours ago - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy. The small Sabine village of Rivodutri was largely destroyed by the earthquake of 1948, but one unusual architectural element survived, known locally as the Alchemical Door"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/alch...-rivodutri

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  Baroque Painting Revealed as Rare Alchemical Masterpiece
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Long-Lost Baroque Painting Revealed as Rare Alchemical Masterpiece

The Fedele Fischetti work was rediscovered by art dealer Christopher Bishop at a London auction.

"Contemporary art’s love affair with the occult has canonical precedent—and a newly resurfaced oil painting by Neapolitan artist Fedele Fischetti is proof. New York-based art dealer Christopher Bishop discovered Fischetti’s The Triumph of Night (ca. 1765) three years ago. After an extended period of study, he’s debuting the painting in an exhibition titled “Alchemy and the Painter” at his Upper East Side gallery through December 12."

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fedele...op-2706041

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedele_Fischetti

   

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  Soma siddhas and alchemical enlightenment
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-29-2025, 12:16 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Soma siddhas and alchemical enlightenment: psychedelic mushrooms in Buddhist tradition
S Hajicek-Dobberstein
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1995•Elsevier


"In the legendary biographies of some Buddhist adepts from the 2nd- and 9th-centuries there are some clues which can be interpreted to reveal that the adepts were consuming psychedelic Amanita muscaria, ‘fly agaric’, mushrooms to achieve enlightenment. This secret ingredient in the alchemical elixir they used to attain ‘realization’ was, of course, unnamed, in keeping with their vows to maintain the secrecy of their practices. Its identity was concealed behind a set of symbols, some of which appeared in the Soma symbol system of the Rg Veda, some other symbols possibly passed down from a time of earlier shamanic use of the mushroom in the forests of Northern Eurasia, and some symbols that may be unique to these Buddhist legends. The congruity of these sets of symbols from Northern and Southern Asian traditions will be shown to be reflected in the Germanic tradition in some characteristics of the Oldest God, Odin."

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?&q=Ha...%281995%29.

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  Course: Academy of Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-29-2025, 10:31 AM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

"This is not a simple history course, but an immersion in the art that unites science and mysticism. You will learn to decipher the arcane language of alchemical symbolism: the union of King and Queen, the dance of Sulfur and Mercury. From ancient alchemical laboratories to the practice of Spagyric Medicine, you will discover how the Adepts sought not only to transmute vile into gold (Fornello Alchemy), but also to distill the very essence of life for an elixir of long life. At the end of the journey, you will understand how the search for the Philosopher's Stone is, in fact, the most powerful metaphor for human enlightenment and spiritual transformation. Your crucible awaits you."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF1XoN5AL9c

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