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The Way of the Golden Elixir
An Introduction to Taoist Alchemy
Fabrizio Pregadio
 
"Occasional Papers" Series, No. 3
Third edition, revised and expanded


https://www.goldenelixir.com/press/occ_0...story.html

Another Beat poet with an interest in alchemy.

"During the 1970s, the poet Diane di Prima found herself with burgeoning research needs for occult materials. For her poetry, she had recently “received” by poetic dictation the first few poems of what would become her mythological epic, Loba, and found herself delving deeply into premodern religious and spiritual practice, including goddess traditions and ancient civilizations. At this same time, spurred by a request to write the introduction to A.E. Waite’s new edition of works by Paracelsus, di Prima also became heavily invested in alchemy, devouring the hermetic texts associated with this early modern practice."

A catalogue of her library here:

https://www.granarybooks.com/pdfs/ddp_occultlib.pdf

Her poem "Paracelsus" here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54976/paracelsus

See also:

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemical-Tradit...1556431333

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3IHtTtPDJY

("Diane di Prima, on this Summer Solstice 1974 occasion, reads her poem "Dream: The Loba Reveals Herself," then turns to her notebook to read more from her continuing long poem Loba.")

   

"A golden medallion from the reign of Leopold I has been preserved which is supposed to have been transmuted from silver into gold using a tincture – in the presence of the Emperor. Another commemorative medallion has an inscription indicating that it was transmuted from lead into silver. They were apparently the result of experiments in alchemy carried out by Johann Joachim Becher, imperial counsellor and one of the three major economists of the seventeenth century – all of whom were, significantly, also alchemists. Becher was even made a kind of advisor in alchemical matters to the imperial Court under Leopold I. Among other things, he tried to transmute sand into gold."

https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/tu...rial-court


   

"The Golden Eagle Pharmacy Museum in Buda Castle is a tiny, but endearing museum, not only for medicinal people, but also recommended for those who like alchemy, the Middle Ages and pre-modern medicine as well as mystery and dark science."

https://budacastlebudapest.com/golden-ea...cy-museum/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gold...acy-museum

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_R...ngary.html

Explained here:

https://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan/japa...chart.html


   

"In 1990 (Year of publishing is not on the book) there appeared in the Danish language a small and modest, but quite remarkable if not extraordinary book on Alchemy, by the female Danish alchemist, Merelle. A pseudonym taken after Nicholas Flamel’s wife, Pernelle, and the French name for the ocean, La Mer, and the sea shell of the same name referred to by Fulcanelli. The book was published in an edition of 500 copies, and is now impossible to find. The author expresses herself in a plain and simple language void of sophistry and obscure phrasings. Merelle refers to various sources, Fulcanelli, J.R. Glauber, Grimm’s fairy tales, Jung, and others; her reasoning and Modus Operandi are laid out in a simple and easily understandable Way. And this is documented with color photographs in the book."

Full text, translated from the Danish:

https://archive.org/details/mysteries_alchemy/mode/2up

Lecture by G. Hedesan (Oxford).

"This lecture will revolve around a painting of an alchemical laboratory created by Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605), a Flemish-born artist settled in Florence. In 1570, Stradanus, who was at the time part of the workshop of Giorgio Vasari, was commissioned for two paintings meant to adorn the Studiolo of Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-1587)."

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

"This article provides a first in-depth look at the La fonderia dell’Illmo et Ecc.mo Signor Don Antonio de’ Medici, a publication that was issued at the Casino di San Marco in Florence in 1604. This work has been deemed to be lost by many scholars on the Casino, but in fact a copy of it is found in the British Library."

Full text.

https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/37/1...anguage=en

"In the Segreti della signora Isabella Cortese (1561), one of the most popular "books of secrets" published in early modern Italy, the author—who presents herself as an itinerant female alchemist, addressing a readership of women—explains that the precious knowledge she shares has been gleaned from her travels along a well-worn route stretching from Italy to Moravia, Poland, and Hungary."

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/788014

This baroque palace in Cannaregio, features curious high reliefs; that are alchemical in theme. It was thought by some to be suggestive of a “Philosopher’s House”.

https://imagesofvenice.com/palazzo-lezze...symbolism/