"Alchemy is a temporary, immersive installation at the Bank of England Museum created by Melek Zeynep Studio for the London Festival of Architecture. Rooted in the ancient ideas of alchemy, the work explores belonging as a process of transformation, connection, and shared presence rather than a fixed state."

When: 15 June to 3 July 2026

"Alchemy is often associated with the Philosopher’s Stone, a legendary substance believed to transform matter and reveal hidden knowledge. In this project, the Philosopher’s Stone is reimagined not as an object, but as an experience. The installation responds to the movements, voices, and bodies of visitors, turning individual presence into something collective. As people move through the space, reflections shift, sounds change, and the environment is subtly altered. Belonging emerges through participation, through being seen, heard, and reflected back by the space and by others within it."

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/w...stallation

A three part investigation of alchemical imagery by Adam McLean, the creator of the renowned alchemy website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9x-GmPs...T&index=40

Timothy Freke is the author of 35 books, translated into more than 15 languages, including a Sunday Times bestseller and Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Year’. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7hrzOCx...T&index=24

"The Hermetic Arcanum (Arcanum Hermeticum) was originally written in Latin and published in 1623 by Jean d'Espagnet, signed using the motto “Penes nos unda Tagi”. Espagnet was an Alchemist and Mystic, and the Arcanum describes the procedure of one school of Alchemists in the search for the secret of the Philosopher's Stone."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Ve_K6S...T&index=21

The Divine Pymander Of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus - Full Audiobook - Definitive Reference w/ Text
Hermetica is a category of literature dating from Late Antiquity that purports to contain secret wisdom, generally attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes", who is a syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian deity Thoth. A collection of several such Greek texts from the 2nd and 3rd centuries, remnants of a more extensive previous literature, were compiled into a Corpus Hermeticum by Italian scholars during the Renaissance, notably by Marsilio Ficino, whose Latin translation went through eight incunable editions before 1500, and a further twenty-two by 1641. [This is] John Everard's historically important 1650 translation into English of the Corpus Hermeticum, entitled The Divine Pymander."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7afy9fn...T&index=13

"Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities, Department of the History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University. His lecture, "Alchemy on the Cutting Edge, Theoretical Innovations and the Pursuit of Transmutation" was given as the 21st Annual Dibner Library Lecture on December 11, 2014."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gc2YYPo...hT&index=3

"There are over seventy Sanskrit words for alchemy, but the main word would be rasa or rasayana. Indian / Vedic alchemy was created by Nagarjuna, considered one of the world’s most important Buddhist philosophers. Nagarjuna’s “Rasaratnakara” became the main source of alchemical practice, leading to the development of consciousness-based Tantric practices & Ayurveda...Vedic Alchemy is an ancient science that aims to rejuvenate & elevate the mind, body, and spirit. It seeks to transmute the ordinary into the extraordinary, aligning with the fundamental principles of the universe. At its core, Vedic Alchemy is a journey of Self-discovery & Self-mastery."

Jess Marie.

https://themerakimethod.org/blog/alchemy

"Convinced that the antichrist was “at our gates,” the fourteenth-century Franciscan friar, alchemist, and prophet John of Rupescissa wrote The Book of the Light of the Great Magistery while imprisoned in papal Avignon. John’s goal was to provide a means for restoring a devastated post-antichrist Christendom using the philosophers’ stone, the substance able to transmute base metals into gold and silver. With this alchemical gold and silver, the true and faithful Franciscans, the “poor men of the Gospel,” could rebuild the Church and help usher in a millennium of peace and prosperity.

In this book launch seminar, Lawrence Principe will discuss the first critical edition, modern English translation, and focused study of John’s Book of the Light. The friar’s restored text, produced using both philological tools and laboratory reworkings, reveals John as an innovative thinker and practitioner whose ideas often oppose key features of Aristotelian natural philosophy, and requires a reassessment of the actual conditions of John’s long imprisonment."

https://www.youtube.com/live/559edYHk9sY

A New Light Kindled in Phosphors, or a Physico-Chemical Exercise, on the cause of light in phosphors, both natural and artificial

by Johann Heinrich Cohausen Translated by Mitko Janeski 1717

https://www.alchemy-texts.com/book/lumen...-accensum/

"Was the Emerald Tablet a lost Atlantean secret — or one of history’s most powerful occult misunderstandings. In this episode of Unexplained History, we follow a strange trail from a modern internet alchemy manual called The Book of Aquarius to the Philosopher’s Stone, medieval laboratories, Hermes Trismegistus, Thoth, Plato’s Atlantis, Isaac Newton’s alchemical studies, and the mysterious Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean."

https://www.unexplained.co/shows/unexpla...mmortality