"St. Germain collected old pictures and portraits; he was addicted to alchemy, believed in universal medecine and made studies as to animal magnetism."

https://verity59.org/uploads/3/4/7/7/347...fkings.pdf

This special issue of Quaerendo marks the addition of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam to the UNESCO Netherlands Memory of the World Registry.  All articles in the issue all treat items in the BPH collection. Authors include Lucinda Martin, Lawrence M. Principe, Thomas Hofmeier, Cis van Heertum, Gwendolyn Verbraak, Andreas Pietsch and José Bouman.

https://www.academia.edu/113263598/Quaer...nda_Martin

Reviewed by David Allen Brizer
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
by Anthony Grafton
Belknap Harvard University Press
Dec 2023, 282 pp, ISBN-13: 978-0674659735

https://compulsivereader.com/2024/01/10/...y-grafton/

"The first step in the decryption process is the transcription of these manuscripts, which is not easy due to the high variation of hand-writing styles and cipher alphabets, and in addition, the often few number of pages. Although different strategies can be considered to deal with the insufficient amount of training data (e.g. few-shot learning, self-supervised learning) the performance of HTR models is still far from satisfactory. Thus, we believe that a competition with a large number of symbol sets and scribes can boost the research of HTR in low resource scenarios. Indeed, the recognition of ciphers is an example of such a low-resource scenario with a high historical interest. Thousands of enciphered historical manuscripts are buried in libraries and archives. So, transcribing and decrypting the information contained in these special sources is important to the understanding of our cultural heritage, since it helps to shed new light on and even to (re-)interpret our history."

https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=27

"This article aims to reconstruct a complex inquiry into the nature of life delineated in Francis Bacon's ‘last writings’, a series of manuscripts discovered at the end of the twentieth century. I show that these fragmentary texts can be understood if we place them in the larger context of Bacon's posthumous works: the Sylva Sylvarum and the Historia densi et rari. Taken together, these texts unveil Bacon's last bold project of a History and inquisition into the nature of animate and inanimate [Historia et inquisitio de animato et inanimato], an investigation focusing on the possibility of creating life in the laboratory"

Full text.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/1....2023.0037

Good and beauifully-illustrated general article on the elements:


https://malevus.com/classical-elements-four-elements/

Texts by this leading scholar of Taoism, including some on inner alchemy:

https://www.fabriziopregadio.com/fabrizi...tions.html

"Prolific author Joseph P. Farrell, who commands a growing and devoted audience on Coast to Coast AM, Erskine Overnight, and other programs, initiates his Feral House association with The Philosopher's Stone, in which he demonstrates the connections of modern physics and ancient alchemy by investigating monatomic gold, the work of Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kozyrev, and the fuel for the mysterious Nazi 'Bell' device, Serum 525."


I assume this site is OK and that the book is in the public domain:

https://foodaudios.com/review/post/2009/...arrell.php

Interesting collection of papers on alchemy (especially codes and ciphers) by Sarah Lang from the Univ of Graz.

Some are downloadable full-texts.

https://scholar.google.com.ar/citations?...AAAJ&hl=sl

Alchemical visions and the Hermetic Tradition (Part1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6eYJRfHTWo

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