"Why is the Salvator Mundi one of the most enigmatic paintings in the world?  The artwork is believed to have been painted for either King Louis XII of France or his consort, Anne of Brittany by Leonardo da Vinci in 1500.  It was sold in 2017 for $450.3 million -the highest price paid for a work of art at auction to date- only to disappear from the public eye.  “Salvator Mundi,” is Latin for “Savior of the World.”  The painting depicts Christ in the Renaissance theme and is likely the last work by Leonardo da Vinci before his death.  Leonardo's encryption in the Salvator Mundi reveals a wealth of universal wisdom linking art, philosophy, and science.  The Great Pyramid and the Salvator Mundi BOTH appear to have the Philosopher’s Stone of Alchemy & Enlightenment encoded into it Mathematically & Musically."

https://dreadavinci.com/blogs/the-real-d...of-alchemy

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Including the Edward Kelley manuscript:

https://www.miskatonicbooks.com/2024/04/...st-listed/

The Cult of Beauty exhibition at the Wellcome shows more than 200 items, including the Ripley Scroll and other historical objects, as well as art, films and new commissions, encouraging visitors to think about the influence of morality, status, health, age, race and gender on how ideas about beauty have developed, and to question what we might think about that.



The exhibition runs until 28 April at the Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. Entry is free.

https://beforeitsnews.com/spirit/2024/04...23645.html

https://theenlightenmentjourney.com/inne...h-to-life/

"Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum — compiled and edited by antiquary extraordinaire Elias Ashmole (1617–1692) — is perhaps the seminal volume of English alchemical literature. Most significantly, it brings together a number of hermetic works previously only available in privately held manuscripts, including, as the subtitle has it, “severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language”. Among these famous English philosophers were John Gower, George Ripley, Thomas Norton, and Geoffrey Chaucer — whose alchemically themed “Tale of the Canans Yeoman” is excerpted from The Canterbury Tales."

https://publicdomainreview.org/collectio...-chemicum/

Latest issue of the leading journal of alchemy:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yamb20/current

"The short answer to the question, ‘was Newton the last of the magicians?’ is, yes …. And also … no. Newton and alchemy turn out to be ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.’ We toss a coin and take a heads-and-tails approach. In this podcast we argue that the alchemical experiments he undertook had nothing to do with magic. Newton’s alchemy now looks to historians like good science (although he would have called himself both a natural philosopher and a chymist). It was well conceived and measured and drew on the work of his contemporaries and of many men before him. And Newton was certainly not the last person in Europe to practise alchemy of this kind. Within fifty years of his death it would simply evolve into modern chemistry."


https://shows.acast.com/65ddca6754223200...p-1-newton

Christopher Martin.

Abstract only.

"By reconsidering various visual and literary representations of prolongevity in early modern Europe, this chapter aims to illustrate the nuanced pushback in the era against “meliorist” beliefs that youth can and should be prolonged as a way of further exploring what I contend is a significantly richer, more integrated cultural sensitivity to later life that informs the period."

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100...50917-9_21

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A New Approach to the Earliest Testimonies of Medieval Alchemy

Matthias Heiduk

"Medieval Europe learned about alchemy through the translation of Arabic treatises into Latin. What sparked the curiosity regarding this new knowledge? Was it perhaps the promise of the life-extending effect of the elixir that inspired its initial reception? Historical research has been unable to answer this obvious question so far. This paper merely takes a few cautious steps on the road towards filling the gaps about early alchemy in the Medieval West."


https://www.academia.edu/36100810/A_Ques...al_Alchemy

"The alchemical history of Prague is a narrative woven into the very fabric of its existence. It is the city’s soul, an invisible thread that links past and present, waiting for the curious to unravel the tapestry of time and secrets."

Embark on a spine-tingling 10-day journey through Prague and the Czech Republic’s haunted realms in 2024 - Czech Haunts and Legends.

https://mysteriousadventurestours.com/th...d-sorcery/