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  Podcasts: Gerasimos Merianos on East Roman Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-01-2026, 11:33 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"In this episode we are guided by researcher Gerasimos Merianos through the labyrinth of pseudonyms, esoteric books, mysterious dates, and even more mysterious praxeis that make up the East Roman alchemical tradition. We have made it a two-parter, because there’s so much here."

https://shwep.net/podcast/gerasimos-meri...nd-part-i/

Part II here:

https://shwep.net/podcast/gerasimos-meri...d-part-ii/

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  Zodiac archetypes as somatic & alchemical architectures
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-01-2026, 11:25 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"A study of the 12 zodiac archetypes as somatic and alchemical architectures - patterns that exist fractally within the body and across all life. Each piece studies one sign as somatic and alchemical architecture - a pattern that lives in the body, moves through the nervous system, and expresses itself differently across time, context, and relationship."

https://www.alysshz.com/body12?fbclid=Iw...EbLDnUtiuQ

https://www.facebook.com/100006212535197...051599438/

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  Video: Esoterica on The Steganographia of Trithemius
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-01-2026, 11:21 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"Did Angel Magic give us the Internet?  In around 1499 Johann Trithemius began combining alchemical theory, astrology, the combatory arts and angel magic into a vast occult system by which to rapidly transmit information, acquire languages, induce prophecy and illuminate the soul.  He called this occult science the Ars Steganographia and he was condemned for it.  Despite rumors that he was a vile necromancer, Trithemius would continue his studies: founding arcane modern cryptology, tutoring Agrippa as he developed the Occult Philosophy, inspiring the development of the Lesser Key of Solomon, uncovering the astral cycles of history and much more.  Let's explore the Ars Steganographia!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq96NDOB0xs

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  Daoism: Li Xiyue’s Internal Alchemy Practice
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-01-2026, 11:17 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

An Inquiry into the Method of Penetrating the Chaotic Obscurity 鑽杳冥 in Li Xiyue’s Internal Alchemy Practice

by Rui Zhang

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17/4/429

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  Very Short Video: Principe performs an experiment
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-01-2026, 11:12 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Watch as Larry Principe (Johns Hopkins) recreates an ancient alchemical experiment. 

Links don't seem to be working.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/margot-wo...69858-XDZV

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  Video: What the Alchemists knew about depression
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-01-2026, 11:10 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Topics include:

? Why the film Groundhog Day is an unlikely lesson in psychological alchemy
? The ancient esoteric Egyptian texts that have inspired generations of artists, poets … and psychiatrists
? The alchemist’s three-stage journey to creating psychological gold
? A deep dive into the first stage, the Nigredo, in which everything has to die
? The temptation to use positive thinking to avoid difficult emotions, and why this is a trap


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77XmoKXKvA

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  Alchemy in English Literature
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-01-2026, 11:07 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The study of ‘Alchemy in English Literature’ is a well-established field in academia (see the works of Stanton Linden, Lyndy Abraham, and Charles Nicholl for excellent examples of work in this niche). John Granger in his Hidden Key to Harry Potter (2002) used the phrase “literary alchemy” both to distinguish hermetic imagery in drama, poetry, and story from the glyphs, colours, and sequences in metallurgical alchemy texts and simultaneously to explain how the esoteric lab work images became the stage setting stuff and substance of imaginative literature."

https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p...-for-those

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  Rethinking Medieval Science through Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-30-2026, 11:10 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Scientia and Transformation. Rethinking Medieval Science through Alchemy and Natural Philosophy."

Giuseppe Gimigliano

"This study introduces a new framework for understanding medieval science by recognizing alchemy as a central mode of rational inquiry."

https://www.academia.edu/164220492/Scien...63655bdf44

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  Alchemy and Music in the Middle Ages
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-30-2026, 10:57 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Antonella Sanino

"The author focuses on the alchemical song En pulcher lapis and gives a new transcription of its text according to the manuscripts. The paper also examines some other textstransmitted by alchemical manuscripts dealing with the elixir of philosophers, elixir of life or elixir of immortality as well as three drawings representing Hermes Trismegistus."

https://www.academia.edu/43425872/Alchem...24c89f70eb

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  An Interpretation of Stephan Michelspacher's Cabala
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-30-2026, 10:55 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

MA Thesis: Through the Alchemical Looking Glass. An Interpretation of Stephan Michelspacher's Cabala: Spiegel der Kunst und Natur, in Alchymia concerning the Tincture of the Alchemists

By Alinda van Ackooy

"Due to the richness of its illustrations, the details of the engravings in the Cabala are often discussed in works on the symbolism of alchemical emblems. This thesis aims at presenting evidence that the Cabala is not to be interpreted as a psychological, spiritual or Christological work, but as a practical guideline for the alchemical transmutation, particularly in relation to Paracelsus' The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists."

https://www.academia.edu/28524113/MA_The...92a252cd72

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