"The presence of gold within these leaves, once merely a botanical observation, now emerges as a testament to the harmonious fusion of biology and precious metals. Let’s delve into the molecular intricacies that underpin this fascinating phenomenon, where nature’s greenery reveals its golden secret."


https://mast-producing-trees.org/unveili...us-leaves/

"The cultural transformations of the Enlightenment, or Early-Modern Era, involved the psychologicizing of alchemical mythologies in the secular poetics of Alexander Pope, whose Rape of the Lock acknowledges his debt to the French Rosicrucians. A century later, Goethe’s engagement with alchemy reflects the radical shift towards the Romantic era."

Alchemy shifting into the Enlightenment: Alexander Pope to Goethe - Prof Evans Lansing Smith

The cultural transformations of the Enlightenment, or Early-Modern Era, involved the psychologicizing of alchemical mythologies
Digital Events - Zoom Lecture
Jul 21st 2024 - 8.00 pm - 9:30 pm

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https://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/ev...ing-smith/

"In 1923 there was published the Arabic text of K. al-Muktasab an alchemical work of the thirteenth century written by al-'Iraqi, with a translation and introduction by Dr. E. J. Holmyard. Jildaki, an alchemist of the fourteenth. century, wrote his great work, Nihayat al-Talab as a voluminous commentary on K. al-Muktasab. The present thesis is an attempt to examine the contents of the Nihayat and determine its place and value in the history of Islamic chemistry."

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1350029/

"This volume contains an introduction to William Butler Yeats' early occult short stories "Rosa Alchemica," "The Tables of the Law," and "The Adoration of the Magi." Panned by critics over the last century, the three stories contained in this volume are both controversial and difficult. The introduction explains the language of occultists and alchemists in terms of Jungian psychology and describes how alchemical doctrine influenced Yeats' writing and the largely alchemical mythology contained in A Vision. Yeats' desire for apocalypse is identified as a desire for the general population to see the divine through symbol and to discover the psychological nature of the occult and of religion. Following this, all three stories are glossed and annotated with comments on their use of alchemical themes, symbols, and ideals"


Full text

https://dc.ewu.edu/theses/163/

"Glyn Parry’s masterful chapter ‘John Dee, Alchemy and Authority in Elizabethan England’, makes a persuasive case for the role played by pro- and anti-alchemical propaganda in the controversy over whether Queen Elizabeth should accept the sovereignty of the Protestant Low Countries in the 1570s and ’80s. Supporters of alchemy argued that Elizabeth should take the first step in assuming the role of an apocalyptic world-emperor, while opponents saw alchemy as a politically and socially destabilising influence."


https://historyofwomenreligious.org/marc...nham-2015/

"However we approach the subject of Alchemy, we are rewarded with a mystery, until the entire subject becomes an infinite regression of mirrored mysteries. And so, if we are not careful, we end up finding only the face of our own bias. The secret protects itself, even when it is displayed in plain sight. Fulcanelli serves as an example. The occult savants of Paris wanted to believe in the possibility of physical transmutation, therefore the suggestion that someone had actually done it grew into an obsession. A modern day Flamel, they thought, a renegade physical chemist who, like the Curies, had stumbled on a way to manipulate the radioactive “light” locked within matter. No matter that not a trace of such speculation could be found in Le Mystere; all alchemist wrote in code anyway. So the mystery focused on who was Fulcanelli? If his identity could be discovered, then the transmutation could be verified. Unfortunately, no one ever claimed the title and presented his proof."


http://www.vincentbridgeslegacy.com/the-...the-cross/

H. Stanley Redgrove

"THE problem of alchemy presents many aspects to our view, but, to my mind, the most fundamental of these is psychological, or, perhaps I should say, epistemological.  It has been said that the proper study of mankind is man; and to study man we must study the beliefs of man.  Now so long as we neglect great tracts of such beliefs, because they have been, or appear to have been, superseded, so long will our study be incomplete and ineffectual."

https://www.worldspirituality.org/phallic-element.html

The Dragon Gate—The Longmen Tradition at Mount Jingai and its Alchemical Practices

Monica Esposito

This PhD thesis was presented at Paris VII in 1993, under the direction of Isabelle Robinet. The original French typescript with handwritten emendations is available here in two volumes, with searchable text and English table of contents as per the editor’s preface.


En français.

https://www.themathesontrust.org/library...ragon-gate

"Ya'qub b. Ishaq al-Kindi was an early Arab scholar of the 9th century, one of the first great scientists... His works in philosophy, cosmology, mathematics, optics, music, cryptology and medicine had a tremendous influence on later centuries."

https://muslimheritage.com/al-kindi/

Nicely-illustrated general article.


https://www.royalartsociety.com/2018/04/...lchemists/