The first lecture in the Infinite Fire Webinar series focuses on Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae – “The Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom”, which was originally published in 1595. This book  has traditionally been considered a strange mix of Christianity and magic. Peter elaborates on the alchemical symbolism of four circular and five rectangular engravings integrated in the Amphitheatrum, and comments on a number of the other famous engravings in this remarkable work.

https://www.amsterdamhermetica.nl/online...m-forshaw/

XīuZhēnTú is one of the classics of the Taoist Cultivation. It pictures divine principles within human being according Taoist alchemy. 

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Nèiguānjīng is a highly valued text about Inner Contemplation and is considered equivalent to the Indian Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta.


https://ikivesi.net/chinese-medicine-tao...nslations/

By HME de Jong

"In the new publication of this important 17th-century work, Dr. H. M. E. de Jong translates the mottos and epigrams of the original 50 emblems and provides a summary of both Maier's exposition and a commentary on each emblem. She discuses the meaning and importance of the Atalanta Fugiens, the sources Maier used, and the mutual relationships between the emblems. She also includes an additional 30 alchemical engravings that explain her research, including several hard-to-find foldouts reproduced here in this volume."

https://www.booktable.net/book/9780892540600

1868

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

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A fresco entitled "Dissertation on Alchemy".


https://reubenkadish.org/works/dissertation-on-alchemy/

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"The text of this manuscript is as enigmatic as are its diagrams; but to him who will meditate upon the profound significance of both, the deeper issues of mysticism in due time will be made clear."




https://sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta39.htm





   

"Two skeletons stand in a chapel in Naples. Their bones are knit together with an intricate web of veins and arteries that crawl over their ribs and skulls like grey lace. These were the “anatomical machines” of Prince Raimondo di Sangro, an alchemist, Freemason, inventor, and military historian. For centuries, eerie legends have swirled around these two figures."

https://daily.jstor.org/the-anatomical-m...st-prince/

Lorenza Gianfrancesco


"In the early modern period Naples was a European centre of learning where a number of scholars engaged with alchemy. Variously perceived as a legitimate scientific practice or as a mendacious trick for gullible minds, alchemy engaged Neapolitan scholars in an ongoing dispute that involved members of the clergy."

https://www.academia.edu/106811623/Books...ern_Naples

Out of copyright:

https://archive.org/details/cu31924028928327/mode/2up

"IF WE WERE TO TELL YOU that there is an alchemical agenda that transcends religions, secret societies and spans the millennia, you would probably
- and rightly - at least entertain the suspicion that we had taken momentary leave of our sanity. If we were to tell you, further, that this alchemical agenda
spans virtually every discipline that you can think of - from biology to history, physics, topology, art, music - even, as we shall see in the main text, literary
criticism - you would probably entertain that idea more seriously, for that, indeed, is what we are going to tell you in these pages, for superintending all
the alchemical images and their implied agendas that we survey here, there is one standing out above them all, that both compels the agendas, and simultaneously reveals some of them as forms of false alchemy; the image is that of primordial simplicity, or androgyny, or “Nothingness,” or physical medium,
or aether, or “ocean of quantum flux,” or Grand Architect of the Universe. The image goes by many names, depending on the fashion of the age, and the
particular agenda emphasized, but it is, nonetheless, the same image."



Free book (apparently):


https://www.pearl-hifi.com/11_Spirited_G...gendas.pdf