"To the alchemists, water was represented through the process of Solutio. Dissolving. To reduce a substance to its particles and wash it clean. This was so fundamental to alchemy that the phrase Solve et Coagula was their main motto. Dissolve then reform. Surrender to the oceanic bliss of the unconscious, and then rebuild the self that is found there. There is no better metaphor for deep inner work."

https://archetypical.substack.com/p/alch...on-solutio

"To paraphrase Gurdjieff: without the Alchemical Crucible, transformation is impossible."

https://enneagramalchemy.substack.com/p/...l-crucible

"A city where chemistry lurks almost anywhere you look."

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/i...32.article

"This post is about the strange parallels between artists and alchemists—through history, through matter, through psyche. It’s also about pigments, poisons, metaphysics, light, rot, and transcendence. And at its core, maybe this path isn’t about being human at all—but about transcending it."

https://www.katerinamillerartist.com/pos...-alchemist

"In this podcast, Timothy Ryan explores a more mystical interpretation of L. Frank Baum’s classic book The Wizard of Oz, turning Dorothy’s adventures into an allegory for the mystic’s journey, utilizing traditional alchemical symbols and operations as Dorothy embarks on a quest toward reintegration and the discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone"


https://rosicrucian-podcasts.org/the-alc...hy-j-ryan/

With the Pophams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHmmha_xWu8

Includes Luther's famous comment on alchemy:


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"The science of alchemy I like well, and, indeed, `tis the philosophy of the ancients. I like it not only for the profits it brings in melting metals, in decocting preparing, extracting, and distilling herbs, roots; I like it also for the sake of the allegory and secret signification, which is exceedingly fine, touching the resurrection of the dead at the last day. For, as in a furnace the fire extracts and separates from a substance the other portions, and carries upward the spirit, the life, the sap, the strength, while the unclean matter, the dregs, remain at the bottom, like a dead and worthless carcass; even so God, at the day of judgment, will separate all things through fire, the righteous from the ungodly. The Christians and righteous shall ascend upward into heaven, and there live everlastingly, but the wicked and the ungodly, as the dross and filth, shall remain in hell, and there be damned."


http://www.lutherdansk.dk/Table-Talk/index.htm:

"In his admirable work The Great Chain of Being, Professor Lovejoy has shown the importance which the concept of the Scale of Being and its figurative expression, the chain, had for Western thought from the early Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century. In an introductory chapter he has outlined the genesis of the idea itself in Greek philosophy. Yet, not primarily concerned with the Greek development, he has refrained from inquiring how far back in ancient literature one can trace the metaphor, and by what process it became a phrase identified with the Neo-Platonic theory of emanation. These questions I propose to discuss here, taking as my point of departure the passage in Macrobius’ commentary on the Somnium Scipionis (I, 14, 15) through which, as Professor Lovejoy says, probably most medieval writers became acquainted with the simile of the chain."

Ludwig Edelstein.

Book chapter. Full access.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_edited_vol...er/2450975

Text translated and transcribed from Elias Zetzner - Teatrum Chemicum vol 3

https://www.alchemy-texts.com/book/book-...dly-glory/

"Spiritual alchemy is the art and process of transforming the self. It is the metaphysical path of purifying the soul, awakening divine potential, and achieving inner union with the sacred. While classical alchemy used symbols like mercury, sulfur, and salt to describe chemical transformations, spiritual alchemy uses those same symbols to illustrate the journey of the soul from shadow to light."

https://terraincognitacoven.com/terra-in...l-alchemy/