"Raw aromatic plant materials — flowers, herbs, resins, and wood — have scented human life for thousands of years, long before essential oils or synthetic scents. In fact, the word perfume comes from the Latin phrase per fumum, which translates to "through smoke." These materials became so valuable that they helped drive the spice trade across continents, reshaping trade routes and influencing nearly every ancient civilization along the way. Let's journey through the fascinating history of natural perfumery and explore how this ancient art is still a way for us to connect with the sacred."

https://aromaticmedicineschool.com/ancie...l-perfume/

"The Metamorphosis of the Myth of Alquemy (sic) in the Romantic Imagination of Mary and Percy B. Shelley"


Asunción López-Varela Azcárate

"This article takes as starting point the myth of alchemy in Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, often interpreted as a warning of the risks and dangers of science and technology demonized in the form of the creature. Set in the Romantic period, the paper argues that the novel stages an ambiguous relationship between the advances in natural science and the philosophical and spiritual concerns that Mary Shelley inherited from her father, the philosopher William Godwin, which she discussed with her husband, the poet Percy B. Shelley."


https://icono14.net/ojs/index.php/icono1...w/1036/589

"It might be safe to say that the practices of alchemy, long relegated to the sidelines of science (or as I like to call it, witchcraft for boys), have a subtle, surprising, but firm footing in the modern deep tech ecosystem of today. After all, as Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, once posited: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/alchemica...le-content

"I have been posting about the mind-stretching Renaissance works in which enterprising scholars discovered, created, or forged scriptures to justify their religious and spiritual agendas: the Gospel of Barnabas is one prime example, the Rosicrucian Manifestos are another. One amazing feature of such products is just how very modern, and indeed post-modern, such writings are, in their willingness to break the fourth wall, to implicate the reader in the process of discovery and deceit – to write what we now call metafictional works. To that extent, the avant garde literary scene around 1610 looks an awful lot like that of 2010, or 2026."

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousben...l-wedding/

"This luminous abstract work blends fluid, marble like pours of deep indigo, midnight blue, molten gold, and soft amber into a cosmic, almost liquid universe."

https://objkt.com/tokens/open_objkt/43674

The Art of Splendor Solis, the Most Glorious Illuminated Alchemical Manuscript of Them All

https://misryoum.com/the-art-of-splendor...f-them-all

"Divinity Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of the world's religions, deities, and wisdom systems, from tarot, kabbalah, and astrology to alchemy, runes, and beyond. Search any symbol and follow its threads through every discipline that speaks of it."

With search-term Alchemy:

https://divinity.interactivelion.com/search?q=Alchemy

"This speculative design represents the fictional Alchemical Republic of Armenia, an alternate history nation existing from 1803 to 1925. In this timeline, the state emerged through a synthesis of esoteric sciences and early modern political reforms, establishing an independent republic in the Caucasus much earlier than its real-world counterpart."

https://www.paxhistoria.co/flags/db0fb83...eecfa93105

"Follow siblings Kelly and William as they stumble upon their uncle's secret laboratory and uncover a hidden world where science and magic are one and the same. Guided by a mysterious homunculus, pursued by dangerous enemies, and transformed by powers they barely understand, the siblings discover that alchemy is far more than chemistry — it is an ancient force capable of changing both the world and themselves. The series combines fantasy adventure, real scientific ideas, mythology, and family drama into a story about curiosity, courage, sacrifice, and the cost of power."

https://alchemicalpress.io/alchemy-is-blue

Thu 03 Sept 


"Meticulously curated by Dr. Aaron Cheak, this volume examines the foundations and flowerings of alchemy in Egyptian, Chinese, Hellenic, Islamic, Indo-Tibetan, and European cultural contexts."

https://www.watkinsbooks.com/event-detai...aron-cheak