"When in 1900 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy, working at McGill University in Montreal, figured that thorium was spontaneously turning into argon by radioactive decay, Soddy exclaimed ‘This is transmutation!’ To which Rutherford thundered back, ‘For Mike’s sake Soddy, don’t call it transmutation. They’ll have our heads off as alchemists.’"

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/t...52.article

The Esoteric and Alchemical Meaning Of The Owl Decoded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXz7E4_SuYo

Full text courtesy of the University of Dresden:

https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/8884/1


Alternative download here:

https://www.academia.edu/118797196/Herme..._old_1667_


Excellent Zuber paper ('Between alchemy and Pietism: Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann's philological quest for ancient wisdom') about Kriegsmann here (full text):

https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:39c496f


No English Wiki, but German entry here:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ch...Kriegsmann

WINNER OF THE
JOURNAL OF MODERN
JEWISH STUDIES ESSAY PRIZE 2013

Maoz Kahana


"This paper explores R. Jacob Emden’s surprising quest for the knowledge of alchemy. This important eighteenth-century rabbinic leader searched for ancient books in the library of Göttingen University, sought living experts and read original alchemical works in German. His sustained interest in alchemy reflects an historical phenomenon far deeper than his personal curiosity. By delving into his forgotten 1736 Igeret bikoret, comparing it to his other writings, and then contextualizing it within contemporary European medical discourse, I wish to use the quarrel between competing medical world views, so typical of the early modern era, to understand R. Jacob Emden’s alternative, esoteric path to modernity and the specific ties it reveals between theology, law and medical practice."

https://www.academia.edu/4443820/An_Esot...ical_Quest

By Helena Blavatsky.

From La Revue Théosophique, Paris, Vol. II, Nos. 8, 9, 10, October, November and December, 1889, pp. 49-57, 97-103, 145-149, respectively.

https://en.teopedia.org/lib/Blavatsky_H....ench_text)

Early references to alchemy in Latin and Arabic Texts.

https://pdfslide.us/documents/burnett-th...stpdf.html

"James Hillman was a past master of alchemical psychology. This field uses metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination. Creative processes are not random. By studying alchemical psychology we come to understand ourselves and other humans in surprising ways that frequently diverge sharply from the habitual understandings we have unconsciously absorbed from the cultures in which we were raised. These new awarenesses can engender unexpected new vitality and wonder."

https://www.brilliancepublishing.com/Title/50597

'From Antique to Early Modern Alchemy: New Approaches, New Horizons.'

Date: 28 May 2024, 9:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)

Venue:
2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE, England.

Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6SE


https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5ea8652d...8fc7369ee/

"Let’s start with some basics. If we take the writings of the alchemists at face value, Lévi’s brief summary of the goals of alchemy—“to be always rich, ever young, and never die”—is, as he says, the point of all those labors.  This goal is to be reached by creating a mysterious substance, the Stone of the Philosophers, which prolongs human life indefinitely, cures all diseases, and can convert other metals into pure gold."

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-ritual-of-...hapter-12/

"Honauer was born in Olomouc, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic), in 1572. Passing himself off under his alias as a goldsmith and alchemist, in 1596 he entered the service of Friedrich I, Duke of Württemberg, in Stuttgart, claiming to be able to convert iron into precious metal using a process that combined alchemical transmutation with the bulk techniques of metal ore smelting."

https://publicdomainreview.org/collectio...g-honauer/