"This work takes a radically different approach to human history. It sees it in terms of human thought and of paradigms.
This is about the Third Paradigm – the third way in which humans have conceptualised the world. It is known here as Transcendent Dichotomism.
There have been two previous paradigms in human history: The Mysterial Paradigm and Deific Materialism."


Each volume is a PDF file that can be downloaded for $5. Click on any volume to go to its page and see its contents, a brief introduction, and the method of payment.

https://trd3p.com/

Fictional works which credibly or interestingly include alchemy, as picked by a practicing alchemist. YA and adult titles.

Patron-created list from BiblioCommons:

https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/lis...2/96503322

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LnAFJVN1z4

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ4_T712xBI

The Living Dead: An Interpretation of the Metaphor of Death in Daoist Inner Alchemy

"This article explores the metaphor of death in Qing 清 Dynasty Daoist inner alchemy (neidan 內丹) scriptures, which require practitioners to consider themselves dead or living dead, and argues that this metaphor of death can be traced back to the connotation of the “living dead” proposed by the founder of Complete Perfection (Quanzhen 全真), Wang Chongyang 王重陽, in the Jin 金 Dynasty, who demonstrated his desire for the return of Dao by digging a grave for himself and referring to himself as a living dead man."

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/12/1482

"Drawing on the teachings of the Egyptian, Greek, and Hebrew mystery schools and quoting extensively from important alchemical writers, Garstin details this process of purification. Students who are curious about alchemy but daunted by the body of its literature and its strange allegories will find this book to be an excellent introduction."

https://www.amazon.com/Theurgy-Hermetic-...187&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.fr/Theurgy-Hermetic-P...oks&sr=1-1

"The alchemical theory of the occult and manifest was radically different from the medical and scholastic literature on occult qualities."

Direct download:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=w...zTP3733wtO

Morigenes the Astrologer, Pseudo-Aristotle, Geber and others

A compendium of alchemical texts, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Italy, c.1400]

Estimate
GBP 12,000 – GBP 18,000


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For sale at Drouot:

https://drouot.com/en/l/27478712-marscho...-alchemist

   

"The sixteenth century witnessed the ‘alchemical opening’ due to changes brought about by the Reformation,in which alchemical knowledge left the clerical environment and established itself within the European courts. Alchemy be-came more‘public’ and settled in the princely courts of Europe. From Florence to Prague and Vienna, alchemy became a real fad, and an experienced and capable al-chemist was a sought-after resource among the high nobility. Alchemy was no longer the exclusive domain of clerics but was also increasingly used by university professors, pedagogues, merchants, physicians, goldsmiths, and mining scientists. Partly in connection with their practicing professions but partly also coming from distant professional fields, it was those groups of educated people who made alchemy so desirable at the European courts."

Open-source chapter from the book Privacy in Early Modern Saxony:


https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/1...6-004/html

Dissertation by Gerrit Tierie.

"In De Quinta Essentia Drebbel discusses in alchemistic terms, how the essence extracted from metals, minerals, plants and animals may be prepared and then used as medicine. From the directions he gives together with philosophical reflections on the subject, we gather, that by essence of metals he meant salts, such as for instance acetates, and by the essence of plants, alcoholic extracts and by the essence of animals, a kind of watery meat extract or bouillon."

Direct download:

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