By Clare Brown.

"History and description of the Medici grotto in the Boboli Gardens attached to the villa in Florence. I present a review of the available literature. I examine the stories of Ovid and various alchemical theories which I use in my interpretation of the grotto’s iconography."

https://www.academia.edu/19668766/Grotto...sformation

Guided Imagery For The First Stage of The Alchemical Process (1 of 7): Calcination (purifying fire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDkq0umQ2tc

"This essay delves into Antoni Tàpies’s profound engagement with non-dualism, a philosophical stance encapsulated in the aphorism “samsara is nirvana and nirvana is samsara.” Tàpies’s exploration of non-dualism, which integrates diverse spiritual and philosophical traditions, profoundly shaped his artistic practice and worldview. Drawing from Western hermeticism and Eastern philosophies such as Hindu Advaita and Zen Buddhism, Tàpies embraced non-dual consciousness as a guiding principle in his art."

Full text:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....=#abstract

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_T%C3%A0pies

"Jupiter having intended to marry Heaven and Earth, and to make them equal in virtue and in dignity, so that one became absolutely equal to the other, resolved to make use of a God, in order to operate astonishing things."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFvs1hGEXs

"As I have a title with cultural and historic relevance still invested with my powers as Seigneur, it allows me to even establish a Priory on the lands within my fief. So, I have decided that the Seigneurie should serve as an international platform, a high priory, for those who are deeply committed to the study and exploration of the inner Grail, Alchemy, and related traditions. In doing so, they will be able to connect directly with an institution that is rooted in the same ancient practices."

https://www.lordofanneville.com/mission

Anonymous, 1600.

"If we want to carry out the study of the secret philosophy usefully, we must strive to recognize and learn the light of nature, because it is it which opens our eyes and enables us to see the invisible and hidden nature. , as if it were perfectly visible and manifest."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oec-_ftJ__A

"Whoever will understand thoroughly these words of Genesis will see that, since the beginning of the world, there has been one substance which can be known only if a light is made to dissipate the darkness which hides it from our eyes."

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

"The Centre for Magic and Esotericism runs regular events with visiting speakers. Please see below for upcoming talks."

"We’ve just added some copies of De Natura Rerum from Aula Lucis Press which has previously been sold out at Miskatonic Books. De Natura Rerum, or Nine Books on the Nature of Things, was composed in order to assist the aspiring alchemist and hermetic philosopher in recognising what lies hidden in Nature, and how to induce Nature to be helpful in the Art of Alchemy. Comprising nine tracts on the Generation, Growth, Preservation, Life, Death, Resurrection, Transmutation, Separation, and Signature of all natural things, it is a veritable treasure house of natural lore for all diligent students of the Spagyric Art to draw upon, and to apply in their practice."

https://www.miskatonicbooks.com/2024/09/...cis-press/

“Paradoxes, Absurdities, and Madness”: Conflict over Alchemy, Magic and Medicine in the Works of Andreas Libavius and Heinrich Khunrath

Peter Forshaw

Both Andreas Libavius and Heinrich Khunrath graduated from Basel Medical Academy in 1588, though the theses they defended reveal antithetical approaches to medicine, despite their shared interests in iatrochemistry and transmutational alchemy. Libavius argued in favour of Galenic allopathy while Khunrath promoted the contrasting homeopathic approach of Paracelsus and the utility of the occult doctrine of Signatures for medical purposes. This article considers these differences in the two graduates' theses, both as intimations of their subsequent divergent notions of the boundaries of alchemy and its relations with medicine and magic, and also as evidence of the surprisingly unstable academic status of Paracelsian philosophy in Basel, its main publishing centre, at the end of the sixteenth century.

https://www.academia.edu/428646/_Paradox...h_Khunrath