Haven't looked at this too closely, but may interest some:

"Dream it up, then add it to your design. Watch your words and phrases transform into beautiful images with Text to Image, Canva's Artificial Intelligence image generator. Stand out with an image perfect for your project."

https://www.canva.com/ai-image-generator/

Ancient Advanced Alchemical Technology, or Something Far More Mysterious?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLQqaI8eGFA

Audiobook with Text And Music. Adrian von Mynsicht (1603–1638) was a German alchemist. He is best known for the allegorical work Aureum Saeculum Redivivum (The Golden Age Restored), published under the pseudonym Henricus Madathanus to whom the "Parabola Of Madathanus" is attributed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qmqXqXy-4

"And so I began a painting of an alchemist. This Alchemist is an artist and a young woman. She sits cross-legged in an arched palette-mandala of phoenix-fiery transformation. Around her head flies a golden nimbus of musicians, undoubtedly playing the East European folk music of my soul. From their instruments and mouths come ribbons of song, stitched with a poem, and many-coloured. This ribbon winds down through our Alchemist's dress, and becomes the coloured stripes of the fabric. In her hands she holds her own heart, which takes in and bleeds out this ribbon of song, this thread of soul, as if it is her own blood. On it flows, down her dress, through her, until it reaches the hem of her dress. There it trickles off into many paint jars to become the pigment with which she will create her magic thereafter."

Step-by-step account of how this work was created:

http://intothehermitage.blogspot.com/201...emist.html


   

Dagmar Wujastyk (University of Alberta) will be talking about Indic alchemical traditions. The introductory talk will be hosted by the Turba discussion group on the history of alchemy.  Turba is proudly sponsored by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC).


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

   

https://www.arthurtaussig.com/internal-p...ons-tarot/

https://yandex.ru/video/preview/4577011229509665264

   
"Scholars are baffled by a mysterious object from Emperor Rudolf II’s collection: a hand bell, made from an alloy of seven metals and said to have been used to summon spirits, contains an enigmatic cipher on the inside."


https://theconversation.com/seven-metals...old-204367

...of alchemical and related texts:

https://www.apmanuscripts.com/voynich

https://www.apmanuscripts.com/googlecfef...f4469chtml

Misleading title, but interesting book by Eleanor Dobson.

'Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ‘rediscovered’ in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically symbolic of both antiquity and modernity (in the very currentness of Egyptological excavations), ancient Egypt was at once evocative of ancient magical power and of cutting-edge science, a tension that might be productively conceived of as ‘alchemical’. Allusions to ancient Egypt simultaneously lent an air of legitimacy to depictions of the supernatural while projecting a sense of enchantment onto representations of cutting-edge science.

Examining literature and other cultural forms including art, photography and early film, Eleanor Dobson traces the myriad ways in which magic and science were perceived as entwined, and ancient Egypt evoked in parallel with various fields of study, from imaging technologies and astronomy, to investigations into the electromagnetic spectrum and the human mind itself. In so doing, counter to linear narratives of nineteenth-century progress, and demonstrating how ancient Egypt was more than a mere setting for Orientalist fantasies or nightmares, the book establishes how conceptions of modernity were inextricably bound up in the contemporary reception of the ancient world, and suggests how such ideas that took root and flourished in the Victorian era persist to this day.'


Rights-free full-text download:

https://tinyurl.com/4ehny3s7

By Matteo Martelli.

From Ambix.

"Translation played a vital role in the development and transfer of alchemy in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Since its origins in Graeco-Roman
Egypt, alchemy was encapsulated in Greek texts which allegedly relied on Persian or Egyptian sources. Later, a variety of Greek and Byzantine writings
were translated into Syriac and Arabic, and these translations were in turn fragmented and disseminated in later Arabic compendia. This paper will first
review the main phases of this historical process of transmission of alchemy from one language and culture to another. Second, this process
will be examined using two significant case studies: a close analysis of various quotations from Graeco-Egyptian authors (Pseudo-Democritus,
Zosimus of Panopolis, and Synesius) as presented in two Arabic dialogues on alchemy, The Tome of Images and The Dialogue between Āras and the King
Caesar. These sources demonstrate some of the concrete textual realities that underlie general patterns of translation and reception."

https://tinyurl.com/y9r88dan