MS Reg.lat.1200 (Reginenses Latini 1200) in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana is an alchemical and philosophical manuscript containing a text concerning the philosopher's stone (De lapide philosophorum). It belongs to the Reginenses Latini (Reg. lat.) collection, which originates primarily from the personal library of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689). After her death in Rome, her collection passed through the hands of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (future Pope Alexander VIII) before being acquired by the Vatican Library in the mid-18th century. A comprehensive standalone translation of the text does not appear to be available.

See the MS here:

https://tinyurl.com/y8npjev5

The text begins with the words Opus Mulierum et Ludus Puerorum ("Women's work and children's play") often assigned to alchemical work.

Queen Christina of Sweden collected alchemical manuscripts through a mixture of massive military spoils and targeted agent purchases, driven by a lifelong obsession with universal knowledge and practical laboratory experimentation. Her pursuit of alchemical knowledge was not an unusual quirk for a 17th-century monarch, but rather a central pillar of her broader philosophical quest. 

Queen Christina built her world-class library through two primary methods:

1) The Looting of Prague (1648): At the end of the Thirty Years' War, Swedish troops sacked Prague Castle. They seized the legendary esoteric library of Emperor Rudolf II, Europe's premier patron of the occult, hermeticism, and alchemy. Christina personally ordered these manuscripts to be sent straight to Stockholm. Interestingly, because she found the Czech and German scripts of Rudolf's operational alchemical notebooks difficult to read, she later gifted a massive batch of them to her librarian Isaac Vossius. These survive today as the Codices Vossiani Chymici at Leiden University:

https://tinyurl.com/4rjaujt2

2) A Network of European Book Hunters: Christina used her immense wealth to employ agents, like Vossius and the French physician Jean Bourdelot, to scour Europe for rare materials. They purchased vast private libraries, such as the renowned French collection of Alexandre Petau, which was loaded with medieval texts on natural philosophy and the transmutation of metals.

"Austin Osman Spare is the definitive biography of the controversial occultist and artist, an enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world whose work was both hailed as genius and decried as immoral decadence. As George Bernard Shaw reportedly said, "Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man." Trained as a draughtsman, Spare enjoyed early acclaim when, at the age of seventeen, his work was shown at the Royal Academy in London. But his star soon declined; Spare went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity. After a brief association with Aleister Crowley, he became absorbed in occultism and sorcery, voyaging into inner dimensions, while developing his own magical philosophy of pleasure, obsession, and the subjective nature of reality. All the while, Spare continued to produce extraordinary art, and held his exhibitions outside of the conventional art world, in London pubs."

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Austin-Osman-Sp...1583947167

The Quest for the Grail: A Thousand Years of Vessels and Visions with Cultural Historian Jason Lahman, Begins November 1

"In this five-week course, we will trace the Grail through mythology, medieval literature, crusading culture, mysticism, alchemy, Romanticism, Jungian psychology, archaeology, conspiracy theory, fantasy literature, and film. Along the way we will encounter wounded kings, wandering knights, ruined chapels, other-worldly queens, Templars, alchemists, Wagnerian mystics, Symbolist artists, fascist occultists, and modern seekers pursuing transcendence through archetype. Rather than asking whether the Grail was objectively “real,” we will explore why it became one of the most enduring symbolic and visionary objects in European culture. The Grail continues to possess the imagination and act as a tool for puzzling out how the ineffable takes on form and calls out to human beings to be sought, found and held."

https://tinyurl.com/2wkkembs

By Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey)

An examination of the beliefs and history of the secretive Yezidi sect

• Explains how the Yezidis worship Melek Ta’us, the Peacock Angel, an enigmatic figure often identified as “the devil” or Satan, yet who has been redeemed by God to rule a world of beauty and spiritual realization

• Examines Yezidi antinomian doctrines of opposition, their cosmogony, their magical lore and taboos, the role of angels, ritual, and symbology, and how the Yezidi faith relates to other occult traditions such as alchemy

• Presents the first English translation of the poetry of Caliph Yazid ibn Muawiya, venerated by the Yezidis as Sultan Ezi 


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peacock-Angel-E...1644114127


Read this book in Russian here:

https://anlibrary.fun/books/xakim-bei-an...iia-ezidov

"In the further stage of inner alchemical transmutation the nafs al–lawwamah becomes transformed into the nafs al-mutma’innah (the soul at peace), attaining a state in which it can gain knowledge with certainty and repose in peace because it has discovered its own center, which is the Self. Finally, according to certain Sufis, the nafs al-mutma’innah becomes transmuted into the nafs al-radiyah (the satisfied soul), which has attained such perfection that it has now become worthy of being the perfect bride of the Spirit."

by Rama Poonambalam Coomaraswamy

https://www.sacredweb.com/psychology/psy...s-outlook/

"The Ayahuasca brew is not from a single plant. It’s a sophisticated alchemical recipe that combines two distinct Amazonian plants: the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub. If you were to consume either one on its own, you wouldn’t feel much. But when they are brewed together for hours on end, a powerful synergy is unlocked."

https://ayahuasca.com/resources/ceremoni...-ceremony/

"For a beginner seeking an explanatory framework, start with The Kybalion, then read the short Tablet of Hermes, and finish with the Emerald Tablets of Thoth. That is a practical study order, not a claim about historical sequence or spiritual rank. Readers mainly interested in textual history may prefer to start with the Tablet of Hermes and then examine the two modern works."

https://www.fifthestatepub.com/post/kyba...ding-order


Breandan Lumpkin's collection brings these writings together in one volume:

https://tinyurl.com/bddzmyhj

"In the winter of 1936-37, Regardie was bedridden in London for two weeks with a bad case of bronchitis. During this time he wrote most of what would be published as The Philosopher's Stone, a book about alchemy from a Jungian perspective. At the time Regardie was convinced that laboratory alchemy was fallacious, and that only theoretical, spiritual, or psychological alchemy was valid. By 1970, however, interaction with practical alchemists such as Frater Albertus of the Paracelsus Research Society caused him to change his opinion on this. He began his own alchemical experiments in a small laboratory setting. Unfortunately, one of his experiments went awry and he seriously burned his lungs when fumes of antimony escaped in the lab. Regardie gave his  alchemy equipment to a friend and for the rest of his life he suffered from the effects of the accident."

Contains other alchemical references.

Legal status unknown.

https://ia903103.us.archive.org/0/items/...%20%29.pdf

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By Peter Murray Jones.

Complete book online. Legal status unknown. Many alchemical references.

https://studfile.net/preview/22073718/

Index with alchemical references:
https://studfile.net/preview/22073718/page:30/