Released October 10th 2025.

https://elasticstage.com/jvlivs?fbclid=I...MjPnEMP8ZA

"Charging like a runaway semitrailer on a downhill grade and spanning the era from Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love into the darkness of 1980s Manhattan, Stone Junction is a wise and wildly imaginative novel about Daniel Pearse, an orphaned child who is taken under the wings of the AMO -- the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. An assortment of sages sharpen Daniel's wide-eyed outlook until he has the concentration of a card shark Zeta master, via apprenticeships in meditation, safecracking, poker, and the art of walking through walls. Wizards are made, not born, and this unconventional education sets Daniel on the trail of mysteries ancient and modern.A strange, six-pound diamond sphere held by the U.S. government in a New Mexico vault, rumored to be the Philosopher's Stone or the Holy Grail, becomes the AMO's obsession. In time, Daniel perfects his powers and heads off to steal the magic stone, and what happens changes his life forever."

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5266...e_Junction

"Alchemy, a symbolic and transformative practice, can be understood visually through the lens of an alchemical mandala. One prominent example is the "Azoth," a meditative emblem that captures the essence of transformation and the journey of the soul. The Azoth mandala, rooted in an illustration first published in 1659 by Basil Valentine, provides a roadmap for the alchemical processes, illustrating the interconnected stages of transformation."

https://setnakh.com/blogs/news/the-alche...-valentine

"In the medieval Arabic tradition of the so-called occult sciences, the concept of ramz (symbol, code) has acquired an important role in the way the authors were considering and reading the texts of their predecessors and writing their owns. This term, closely related to the notion of secret, covered various ideas of code: from allegories and allusions to codenames and secret alphabets. Above all, the alchemists made ramz a real topos of their literature. In this paper, we focus on the Rutbat al-ḥakīm of Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī (written in 339-342/950-953) and some of its main sources, such as the corpus of texts attributed to Jābir b. Ḥayyān, Ibn Waḥshiyya's Filāḥa Nabaṭiyya, the Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ and the Risāla Jāmiʿa."

By Godefroid de Callatay and Moureau Sébastien

https://www.academia.edu/77638705/In_Cod...ON_ALCHEMY

by Lutfallah Gari

"Alchemists were obliged from the earliest times to keep their esoteric knowledge secret. They used innumerable “pseudonyms” (Decknamen in German), not only for processes but also for the matters and elixirs. The same matter was often indicated with dozens of different names. Conversely, one and the same name was used to designate different matters. The editors of these texts need to understand, and explain, the words used by the alchemists for describing the substances that are mentioned in their operations. The first endeavors to solve this lexical problem were undertaken by the Arabs themselves: they composed glossaries or added to bigger theoretical works lists in which the meaning of the pseudonyms was explained."

https://www.academia.edu/124083210/Medie...erminology

"Abstract: Although al-Jildakī is one of the most important Arabic alchemists in history, he is still a shadowy, mysterious figure as are most of the Arabic alchemists. Fortunately, modern scholarly research has shown increasing interest in uncovering the mysteries surrounding the life of this celebrated alchemist. In this contribution, we aim to shed light on certain aspects of the enigmatic aura surrounding al-Jildakī, particularly regarding the geographical scope of his scientific activity, his places of residence, discussing whether he is Egyptian by origin or not. The second part of this paper will concern his opus magnum and maybe his latest work al-Miṣbāḥ fī asrār ʿilm al-miftāḥ ("The lamp, on the secrets of the science of the key"), in which al-Jildakī has collected all of his knowledge in alchemy, his important concepts, principles and views. Al-Miṣbāḥ is considered a summary of his previous books. The discussion will clarify al-Miṣbāḥ's authenticity, correct title, and whether al-Jildakī wrote the book in two parts as he mentions in the preface, which consequently may give a hint about al-Jildakī's deathdate."

https://www.academia.edu/129961485/The_1...25_109_131

"The Harry Potter series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling is one of the most translated series of all time, being available in 85 languages. This includes languages with fewer than a million speakers such as Basque, Greenlandic, and Welsh, as well as the Classical languages Latin and Ancient Greek. Additionally, regional adaptations of the books have been made to accommodate regional dialects such as the American English edition and the Valencian adaptation of Catalan."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ha...anslations

"Alejandro Jodorowsky is another filmmaker whose name is practically synonymous with visions. "The Holy Mountain" is perhaps his ultimate surreal journey; wild, bizarre, psychedelic, and overwhelming. It tells the story of a Christ -like figure ( Horacio Salinas ) who, under the guidance of an alchemist, joins a group of disciples representing different planets on their quest to ascend a sacred mountain in search of enlightenment. Along the way, Jodorowsky unleashes some of cinema's most shocking and unforgettable imagery. We see frogs and lizards dressed as conquistadors, reenactments of the Spanish conquest, exploding wax figures, industrialized torture chambers, and alchemical rituals."

https://min.news/en/entertainment/ea480a...c79c1.html


I can't find the whole movie on-line but here's a discussion:

"This week we dive into Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 acid-trip masterpiece, The Holy Mountain!  Requested by our viewers after our El Topo discussion, we tackle this visually stunning, mind-bending film full of surreal imagery, spiritual allegory, and social satire. From bizarre religious symbolism to outrageous production choices (seriously, where did they get all those animals?! , we break down the madness of Jodorowsky’s visionary world."

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

...and two in Spanish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs6j9m-DGqo

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

"Explores the significance of light in spiritual life—drawing on the esoteric tradition of alchemy—to transcend materialism and seed new cultures rooted in perennial wisdom• Examines ideas from Western mysticism, Tibetan Buddhism, and other traditions to show how spiritual alchemy is a path to transformation and regeneration• By working with spiritual images, shows how to advance spiritual evolution and heal from artificial culture by learning to separate illusion from reality."

https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6761645

"The Power of Soul is a practical approach to knowing the spiritual world emanation, represented by the twelve virtues and how it works into our soul and bodily life in furthering our evolution into humanity. By coming to a "KNOWING" of the spiritual, soul and bodily interplay of the twelve virtues, our incarnation can become a conscious soul life that is connected to the spiritual world, enabling virtue to be lived right here on earth. It is a practical guide complete with the phenomenology of the 12 virtues as related to humanity, alchemical processes and exercises for the reader to experience."

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Soul-Living...0983226148