"Daoism is an eclectic school of thought (aren't they all?) and often borrows useful concepts from other philosophies, practices and religions in order to better explain its own ideas. Today I want to talk briefly about the Four Vehicles of Internal Alchemy, a concept borrowed from Buddhism but with a totally different interpretation."

https://immortalitystudy.substack.com/p/...al-alchemy

"It is difficult to overestimate how much of an impact Isaac Newton had on the world’s history. A nagging question shrouds his legacy: Did Isaac Newton, the mastermind behind the laws of motion, delve into the mysterious realm of alchemy and, intriguingly, drink mercury?"


https://www.leicestershirevillages.com/u...e-mercury/

"Rahere Esoteric is a gothic-flavoured, quasi-Roman display font with an eccentric persona and more quirks than a Tim Burton film. A member of the extended Rahere typeface family, it’s the enigmatic cousin of Rahere Roman Display & Rahere Sans. This is a niche display font that doesn’t try to please everyone. Rahere Esoteric revels in its mystical aura, using a bewildering array of ligatures to magically transmute itself as characters loop, curl, jerk and strut, randomly connecting and disconnecting into words like a retro-futuristic steam train clattering along a disused railway track, challenging and delighting the reader at the same time."


https://textfonts.net/rahere-esoteric-font-family.html

A good introductory survey:

https://gtrdw.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-e...cient.html

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil from Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, by 'Henricus Madathanus' (Adrian van Mynsicht?), from the 1919 edition

https://bildsuche.digitale-sammlungen.de...&lv=1&l=en

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

Full text of 1785-1788 edition (Altona: J.D.A. Eckhardt, in Commission in der Heroldschen Buchhandlung in Hamburg) available from:

https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/...KBFVFG3287 and https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k312865t.image

John Partridge's translation of van Mynsicht's medical text, including his recipe for Potable Gold, will be found here:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A51671...1?view=toc

   

Full-text download (public domain)

Hermes in the Academy: Ten Years’ Study of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam

Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Joyce Pijnenburg, eds.

https://www.amsterdamhermetica.nl/wp-con...cademy.pdf

"To celebrate the first birthday of this blog I have put together a mix of music inspired by John Dee. As scientist, cryptographer, cartographer, alchemist and magus Dr. Dee has always been of profound interest to me. To many he is still considered notorious for his conversations with angels, aided by various mediums or ‘scryers’ of dubious credibility. However, it is not his angel-bothering that most interests me, rather his works broadly in the domains of astrology and alchemy."

https://larkfall.wordpress.com/2013/04/0...-john-dee/

"In the Harleian manuscript collection in the British Museum there is a collection of alchemical and magickal texts copied between 1699 and 1714 by one Peter Smart, self described Master of Arts of London. Among these manuscripts are several relating directly to Dr, John Dee’s Enochian workings and angelic magic as well as a collection of alchemical and Rosicrucian material, also containing fragments of Dee’s work, entitled The Rosie Crucian Secrets."

http://vincentbridgeslegacy.com/angel-ma...h-century/


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

By György E Szönyi

" 'John Dee and alchemy' – this phrase, particularly in and around Bohemia, almost automatically triggers the qualification: “Dee was interested in alchemy, but the real adept in their tandem was his scryer, Edward Kelly.” Well, this is not necessarily true. Although it is indeed probable that Kelly was more accomplished and also more devoted to pursuing the way of transmut-ing base metals to gold, his master approached alchemy in a more subtle and complex way."


https://www.academia.edu/45634029/Layers...text_2015_

"At first glance, this appears to be a typical Catholic chapel. However, like the rest of the estate, it is replete with occult secrets. The chapel is made of three levels (underground, ground level, and above ground) which is meant to represent the three levels of the Axis Mundi  (the underworld, earth, and heaven). Atop the chapel is a tower-like sculpture that represents an “alchemical furnace”, also known as athanor."


https://luis46pr.wordpress.com/category/hexagram/

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