"The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians by Magus Incognito (a pseudonym of William Walker Atkinson—author of The Kybalion) presents an illuminating guide to the esoteric wisdom of the Rosicrucian tradition, revealing how spiritual alchemy and cosmic principles can aid one’s inner transformation. Through exploration of soul planes, occult symbolism, and the cosmic forces at play, this concise volume offers seekers a path to enlightenment and personal evolution."

https://archive.org/details/incognito191...e/mode/2up

"Italian researchers have transformed light into a supersolid, a quantum state that acts simultaneously as a solid crystal and a fluid without viscosity, upending classical physics."

https://makerfairerome.eu/en/blog/cnr-tr...m-physics/

"Bologna is a unique city that harbours countless secrets and mysteries. It is not always easy to penetrate this shadowy realm, as its welcoming and pleasure-seeking nature entertains and distracts the visitor. Bologna requires a deeper look to discern the traces of a glorious past in which extraordinary figures have left their mark. Even its urban layout conceals a magical profile that hints at a celestial language. The city is, in fact, enclosed by 12 gates, each linked to one of the signs of the zodiac. It was here that Europe’s most important chair of astrology was established. We shall also encounter the mysterious tales of the Templars and the legendary quest for the Holy Grail, as well as studies related to Kabbalah and alchemy. This topic also brings to mind the figure of the witches, women who were the custodians of ancient natural knowledge. Every street holds a story and a secret that stimulates not only the imagination, but also the desire to deepen one’s understanding through careful observation of certain buildings – veritable ‘books of stone’ waiting to be interpreted."

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)


https://tinyurl.com/yfm4e8ke

"The Tarot of Leonora Carrington is the first book dedicated to this important aspect of the artist’s work. It includes a full-size facsimile of her newly discovered Major Arcana; an introduction from her son, Gabriel Weisz Carrington; and a richly illustrated essay from Tere Arcq and Susan Aberth that offers new insights ­—­­­ exploring the significance of tarot imagery within Carrington’s wider work, her many inspirations and mysterious occult sources."

https://www.fulgur.co.uk/books/the-tarot...arrington/

Musaeum Hermeticum ("Hermetic library") is a compendium of alchemical texts first published in German, in Frankfurt, 1625 by Lucas Jennis. Additional material was added for the 1678 Latin edition, which in turn was reprinted in 1749. Its purpose was apparently to supply in a compact form a representative collection of relatively brief and less ancient alchemical writings; it could be regarded as a supplement to those large storehouses of Hermetic learning such as the Theatrum Chemicum, or Jean-Jacques Manget's Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa. It seemed to represent a distinctive school in Alchemy, less committed to the past and less obscure than the works of older and more traditional alchemical masters.

Reel from the Ritman Library showing the 1749 edition:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1126146517032832

1678 edition downloadable here:

https://archive.org/details/musaeumherme...7/mode/2up

and here:

https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/5t34sk63f

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/