"In the 20th century, Swiss psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961) rediscovered alchemy as a map of psychological transformation. After his break with Freud, Jung found in alchemical texts a symbolic language for the individuation process - the journey toward psychological wholeness. Jung's insight: alchemists were projecting their unconscious psychological processes onto matter. The gold they sought was the integrated Self."

https://mysticryst.com/blogs/the-mystic-...rpretation

Alchemy Labs: Historical Equipment, Tools, and Processes

"Behind alchemy's mystical symbolism was real laboratory work. Alchemists were practical chemists who invented sophisticated equipment, developed precise techniques, and conducted experiments that laid the foundation for modern chemistry. The alchemical laboratory was both workshop and temple, where glass vessels bubbled over carefully controlled fires and the air filled with the scents of distilling essences."

https://mysticryst.com/blogs/the-mystic-...-processes

One-page history with interesting onward links.

Nicole Lau.

"Alchemy is one of humanity's oldest and most misunderstood spiritual traditions. Often dismissed as primitive chemistry or fraudulent gold-making, alchemy is actually a profound system of spiritual transformation that has influenced philosophy, psychology, medicine, and mysticism for over 2,000 years. From the sacred laboratories of ancient Egypt to Carl Jung's analytical psychology, alchemy has always been about one thing: the transmutation of the soul."

https://mysticryst.com/blogs/the-mystic-...psychology

You’ll discover:
— The esoteric symbolism of blood and water
— How the crucifixion mirrors alchemical transformation
— The connection between Christ’s blood and spiritual awakening
— What mystics and ancient traditions knew about this hidden event
— How this moment still affects your spiritual evolution today 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1cRN0-PLIE

"This painting, “Basins 1,” explores the fountain as an alchemical symbol, where each cascading basin is a cycle of dissolution and renewal. The saturated colors and organic forms evoke a kind of modern 'Hortus conclusus,' an enclosed garden where opposites mingle and quiet transformation begins to take root."

https://www.instagram.com/p/DU8xxoXkVbO/

"In 1550, a printer in Frankfurt published a collection of alchemical texts with twenty woodcuts. One of them would become the most reproduced image in the history of Western alchemy. It shows a lion, its body green, its mane flowing, its jaws clamped around a radiant sun with a human face. Beneath the image, an inscription: 'I am the true green and Golden Lion without cares. In me all the secrets of the Philosophers are hidden'.”

https://www.crazyalchemist.com/nature-sc...hemy-uses/

"Alchemical Art Lab is a living research studio and laboratory of ideas. Its practice sustains a continual dialogue between alchemical and philosophical traditions and a present already leaning into the future."

https://www.instagram.com/p/DU_PgZIEogk/

"This project began as a visual research into historical alchemical manuscripts. I wanted to explore how ancient occult geometry can be translated into a modern interface language without losing its mystery."

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P6PEAn

Liana Cheney

University of Massachusetts Lowell


"The purpose of this essay is to identify and analyze one of Lavinia Fontana's mysterious paintings, traditionally entitled Cleopatra but here considered to be an inventive portrayal of an ancient scientist, Cleopatra the Alchemist (ca. third century BCE)."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._Alchemist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_Fontana

https://www.wikiart.org/en/lavinia-fontana

"E. H., also known as eine jungfer ("a young maiden"), was the pseudonymous author of a 1574 alchemical text. Her treatise describes the properties of gold, and includes instructions for processing the metal. It also includes an interpretation of the cryptic Tabula Smaragdina.
In 1702, a German translation of the text was combined with another alchemical tract and a catalog of 17th-century Kabbalistic books and published in Hamburg by Gottfried Liebezeit as Ein ausführlicher Tractat von Philosophischen Werck des Steins der Weisen, durch eine Jungfer E. H. genannt anno 1574 geschrieben. Samt einer gründlichen Untersuchung... der Art und Eigenschafft des Goldes...dabey angefüget: ein Catalogus Librorum Kabalisticorum.Liebezeit did not know the identity of E. H., but believed she had written the original version in French. In 2026, German artist Anselm Kiefer included a painting of E. H. in his collection, The Women Alchemists, which was displayed in Milan's Sala delle Cariatidi as part of the cultural showcase of the 2026 Winter Olympics." (Wikipedia)

Text here:

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fewxzzzd/items