Meredith College Professor of Religious Studies Shannon Grimes and student Holden McLennan, ’26, are working together on a new book.

The book is tentatively titled One is the All: The Alchemical Writings of Cleopatra, and it grew from work they did together while McLennan was completing a contract major in Classical Studies.Shannon Grimes and Holden McLennan signing book contract

“[The book] is a translation of Greek and Latin alchemical and medical texts that are attributed to Cleopatra, who was a highly regarded alchemist and medical writer in Roman Egypt,” said Grimes. “Her identity remains a mystery – that’s one of many issues we’ll be addressing in our book – but she is important for our understanding of the history of women in science.”

Grimes will write the commentary, and McLennan will do much of the work on the translations. 


https://www.meredith.edu/news/meredith-p...rite-book/

The number Seven in alchemical symbolism: operations, transformations and the Spiritual Mirror 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXNLhaD1rAU

Yesterday, I introduced The Emerald Tablet as a record of Nature’s cycle.

https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/t...sm?r=iutjw

What follows is the next step in that sequence.

https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/t...a-portrait

"For Alchemists, the traditional Pilgrimage involves going within oneself on retreat. It is an opportunity to bring about a profound inner transformation, to experience the true meaning of resurrection. It can change our lives. This retreat provides an opportunity to share in a wonderful attunement, as well as to explore and discover the keys to your own unfoldment. At the end of the retreat the guide will work individually with each retreatant in giving practices and helping them to create an atmosphere in which profound change can occur."

A Silent Guided Retreat
with Nigel Hamilton & Noor-un-Nisa Jacobs
30 Jul – 4 August 2026
Poulstone Court, Herefordshire


https://inayatiyya.org.uk/events/summer-...reat-2026/

"A community of enthusiasts is actively seeking recommendations for alchemy PDFs, focusing on operant alchemy, historical periods like the Renaissance and Islamic Golden Age, and specialized topics such as spagyrics. The request has sparked interest among people eager to enhance their knowledge base.

The quest revolves around finding accessible resources, whether introductory or advanced, to explore foundational concepts in alchemy. Users are sharing their picks, highlighting various sources."


https://mysterylores.com/news/best-pdfs-...favorites/

From Esoteric Alchemical Canon to Publicly Circulating Book: A Study on Longmeizi 龍眉子 and The Textual Circulation History of the Jinye Huandan Yinzheng Tu 金液還丹印證圖

by Xuetao Liu

"Longmeizi 龍眉子 was an inheritor of the Southern Lineage of Daoism 道教南宗 under Weng Baoguang 翁葆光. By tracing the historical documentation of Longmeizi’s Daoist lineage, it becomes evident that the narrative details were continuously enriched through textual accumulation."

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17/5/538

Artists from Remedios Varo to Olga de Amaral have been inspired by alchemy. A new exhibition in Monterrey, Mexico, explores why.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alchem...on-2764126

by Hans De Clercq

"This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden wisdom of alchemy, not as a mere proto-science, but as a profound spiritual path to self-mastery and enlightenment."

https://books.brightlearn.ai/The-Alchemi...index.html

"The Tarot is not a toy for fortune-telling; it is the keyboard of a Supercomputer. Most people spend their lives playing Solitaire on a machine built to map the Universe.

This is a summons for those who are finished with the games.

We are entering the laboratory of the Great Work. We are using the architecture of The Alchemical Cabala to perform the deliberate transmutation of the self. This is the rigorous, scientific application of the Western Mystery Tradition—refined over 35 years of deep exploration.

I am looking for the serious practitioner. The one who understands that the blueprint is not the building, but without the blueprint, nothing stands.

Your seat at the Table of the Wise is waiting."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocBpyeGS-Y

Ontological Tensions in 16th and 17th Century Chemistry: Between Mechanism and Vitalism

by Marina P Banchetti (also: Banchetti-Robino)

Abstract: The 16th and 17th centuries mark a period of transition between the vitalistic ontology that had dominated Renaissance natural philosophy and the Early Modern mechanistic paradigm endorsed by, among others, the Cartesians and Newtonians. This paper will focus on how the tensions between vitalism and mechanism played themselves out in the context of 16th and 17th century chemistry and chemical philosophy, particularly in the works of Paracelsus, Jan Baptist Van Helmont, Robert Fludd, and Robert Boyle.


https://www.academia.edu/2087104/Ontolog...d_Vitalism