A Most Mysterious Union

by Stephen Wilkerson

"Stephen Wilkerson's sensitive and probing exploration of Goethe's classic poem rests on both a promise and a belief: that humankind thirsts for an alchemical transformation of spirit but may not yet fully realize how to initiate such a quest. His study reveals, by way of Goethe's genius and Jung's exploration of alchemy, that the poetic imagination has the capacity to inform, reform and so transform the individual into a more receptive, porous and compassionate worldview by embracing the energies of the Feminine in her earthly and divine figures."


https://www.amazon.com/Most-Mysterious-U...1630514101

"In 2014, the Faust Museum/Faust Archive team was visited by a delegation from the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle. Archaeologists, historians and chemists had announced themselves with a breakthrough: „We have found Faust‘s alchemy laboratory!“ Thanks to this initial contact, a wonderful cooperation with one of Germany‘s most renowned museums was born. And: through this cooperation, unique archaeological finds came to Knittlingen!

In fact, during excavations on the grounds of the Franciscan monastery in Wittenberg in 2012, the waste pit of an alchemy laboratory was discovered. It was located on the north wall of the church under a staircase and near the former monastery kitchen. Among other things, the stylistic classification of the existing utility glass suggests that it dates from around 1570 (late 16th to first half of the 17th century). At this time, the monastery had already been dissolved and the sovereign allocated the rooms for other uses. It is possible that a laboratory technician produced pharmaceutical raw materials on behalf of the prince-elector.

Since the historical Faust, Johann Georg Faust, is also presumed to have been staying in Wittenberg, the Knittlingen alchemist and mage could indeed have worked in this laboratory."


https://faustmuseum.de/en/faust-museum/t...tor-faust/

"In this issue of the Rosicrucian Digest, we present Rosicrucian Alchemy."

https://www.rosicrucian.org/rosicrucian-...an-alchemy

The Taoist Practice of Neidan
By Wang Mu
Edited and translated by Fabrizio Pregadio 



"Originally written for Chinese readers, this renowned book provides a clear description of the Taoist practice of Internal Alchemy, or Neidan. The author outlines the stages of the practice and clarifies several relevant terms and notions, including Essence, Breath, and Spirit; the Cinnabar Fields; the "Fire Phases"; and the Embryo. The book is based on the system of the Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality), one of the main sources of Internal Alchemy, and contains about two hundred quotations from original Taoist texts."

https://www.goldenelixir.com/press/tao_0...tions.html

Free download:

The Way of the Golden Elixir
An Introduction to Taoist Alchemy
Fabrizio Pregadio
 
"Occasional Papers" Series, No. 3
Third edition, revised and expanded


https://www.goldenelixir.com/press/occ_0...story.html

Another Beat poet with an interest in alchemy.

"During the 1970s, the poet Diane di Prima found herself with burgeoning research needs for occult materials. For her poetry, she had recently “received” by poetic dictation the first few poems of what would become her mythological epic, Loba, and found herself delving deeply into premodern religious and spiritual practice, including goddess traditions and ancient civilizations. At this same time, spurred by a request to write the introduction to A.E. Waite’s new edition of works by Paracelsus, di Prima also became heavily invested in alchemy, devouring the hermetic texts associated with this early modern practice."

A catalogue of her library here:

https://www.granarybooks.com/pdfs/ddp_occultlib.pdf

Her poem "Paracelsus" here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54976/paracelsus

See also:

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemical-Tradit...1556431333

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3IHtTtPDJY

("Diane di Prima, on this Summer Solstice 1974 occasion, reads her poem "Dream: The Loba Reveals Herself," then turns to her notebook to read more from her continuing long poem Loba.")

   

"A golden medallion from the reign of Leopold I has been preserved which is supposed to have been transmuted from silver into gold using a tincture – in the presence of the Emperor. Another commemorative medallion has an inscription indicating that it was transmuted from lead into silver. They were apparently the result of experiments in alchemy carried out by Johann Joachim Becher, imperial counsellor and one of the three major economists of the seventeenth century – all of whom were, significantly, also alchemists. Becher was even made a kind of advisor in alchemical matters to the imperial Court under Leopold I. Among other things, he tried to transmute sand into gold."

https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/tu...rial-court


   

"The Golden Eagle Pharmacy Museum in Buda Castle is a tiny, but endearing museum, not only for medicinal people, but also recommended for those who like alchemy, the Middle Ages and pre-modern medicine as well as mystery and dark science."

https://budacastlebudapest.com/golden-ea...cy-museum/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gold...acy-museum

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_R...ngary.html

Explained here:

https://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan/japa...chart.html


   

"In 1990 (Year of publishing is not on the book) there appeared in the Danish language a small and modest, but quite remarkable if not extraordinary book on Alchemy, by the female Danish alchemist, Merelle. A pseudonym taken after Nicholas Flamel’s wife, Pernelle, and the French name for the ocean, La Mer, and the sea shell of the same name referred to by Fulcanelli. The book was published in an edition of 500 copies, and is now impossible to find. The author expresses herself in a plain and simple language void of sophistry and obscure phrasings. Merelle refers to various sources, Fulcanelli, J.R. Glauber, Grimm’s fairy tales, Jung, and others; her reasoning and Modus Operandi are laid out in a simple and easily understandable Way. And this is documented with color photographs in the book."

Full text, translated from the Danish:

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