"In R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis, the study of analytic philosophy is literally the study of magick. Alice Law, Kuang’s protagonist, is a postgraduate in Cambridge’s Department of Analytic Magick in the mid-1980s, and she studies everything from “alchemical scribblings of Samarkand to Wittgenstein’s lost notebooks."

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/cheap-trick...philosophy

https://www.amazon.com/Katabasis-Novel-R...0063442078

29-Jan-2026 at 10:40 am - 12:00 pm

By Rupert Dickens. 2027 is the 500th anniversary the birth of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, one of the strangest and most intriguing artists of all time. He captivated his contemporaries with his depictions of the human face composed of objects such as fruits, flowers, fish and books. After centuries of obscurity, he was rediscovered in the 19th century and then revered by the Surrealists who saw him as a pioneer for their mining of the subconscious. Arcimboldo worked at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II, one of the greatest collectors in history who acquired masterpieces by Bruegel, Titian and Durer. He also assembled hundreds of artists, wizards and alchemists at his castle in Prague.

An Arts Society Enfield Talk. Non members welcome for £10 each, payable at the door.


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

https://giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/

The Alchemists and the Art of Transmutation

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/1867/04-20/

https://www.etsy.com/fr/listing/14596000...o-alchimie

   

Chimerical Alchemical: Art Display by Sadia Fakih.
Come by the Brooks Public Library to view the colorful & intricately detailed collage drawings by this talented artist.
On display November 13th-December 9th.


https://www.facebook.com/BrooksPublicLib...406166882/

See also:

https://www.artsy.net/artist/sadia-fakih

Ukrainian alchemical death metallers Tria Prima to release debut album ‘The Mortificatio’

https://www.moshville.co.uk/news/video/2...tificatio/

Smith, Patrick J., eds.; JD Holmes.

Alchemical Press series [18 Volumes] [Alchemy].

Yours for 475 dollars.


https://www.luxmentis.com/pages/books/13...es-alchemy

Discover 866 high-quality, royalty-free alchemical symbols vectors, clipart, and graphics

https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free...ls-vectors

Grund, P. J., & Norja, S. (2025). Alchemy, the Vernacular, and Text Production in Late Medieval England: Presentation Strategies in Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37. Ambix, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2025.2555709

"The article studies the strategies that late-medieval scribes used to present alchemical texts to their audience. Investigating two late fifteenth-century alchemical codices – Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37, both almost exclusively written in English – we demonstrate that the copyists took considerable pains to present reader-friendly texts. They provided neatly separated textual units, furnishing them with headings, manicules (pointing hands), and even a table of contents. This organisation is supported by the use of various ink colours, letter sizes, and framing devices. The appearance suggests significant pre-planning, perhaps even in a commercial context. We argue that these manuscripts highlight how readers engaged with alchemical texts and, by extension, that they reveal the importance afforded to texts and the vernacular as a vehicle for disseminating alchemical knowledge. In other words, it is not only the number of surviving manuscripts and their alchemical contents that are good indicators of late-medieval valuations of alchemy. Our study underscores how the visual materiality of extant textual artefacts also constitutes crucial evidence for our understanding of how practitioners used alchemical texts. It also exposes the place of alchemical texts in the text production industry of the time and illustrates the status of fifteenth-century alchemy more widely."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...%200pubmed

Jungian.

"Alchemical separatio is the skill of sorting out your mind. You separate what belongs to you—your complexes, habitual triggers, and painful memories--from what is happening in the world around you. In the laboratory of your life, you separate present triggers from older wounds, and literal facts from symbolic meanings. This is part of your essential self-ordering instinct. As you bring more and more of yourself into conscious awareness, a delightful calm will tell you you’re on the right path. Join us and learn how to gain the profound clarity necessary on the path of Individuation."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxpGJXkow2Y