"Of Ovid’s many faces during the late Middle Ages and early modern erasurely the strangest is that of the alchemical philosopher: the authority onmetamorphosis whose words and stories can guide the aspiring adept."

https://www.academia.edu/168303/_Ovid_an...lchemists_

Jean Dubuis (April 29, 1919 – April 6, 2010) was a renowned 20th-century French esotericist, qabalist, and alchemist.

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



Some of his works are available here:

https://archive.org/search?query=%22jean+dubuis%22


and from a Yandex Disk here:

https://gorish.blogspot.com/2015/02/jean...ourse.html


I have no idea what the copyright status is of this material.

Michael Storch

"The creation and manipulation of infinite images is central to Bruno' s thought, but to the best of my knowledge, this has never been properly treated before. This
project is a departure from much of the current scholarship on Bruno which has focused on his contribution to scientific thought, and downplayed or ignored the
Hermetic and magical elements which pervade his work. Each chapter deals with different works of Bruno, and different aspects of his philosophy, and each is rooted
in the larger project of uncovering the role, meaning, and application of images in Bruno' s thought."

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https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/5712mc08m

"The 28-foot tall stone tower which still stands today in Touro Park, in Newport, Rhode Island has baffled historians for generations. I have boldly renamed it the John Dee Tower because (I assert), he was the architect who designed it."

Free book by Jim Egan with many alchemical references.

http://www.newporttowermuseum.com/resour...-Tower.pdf


   

"This thesis re-assesses what we know of John Dee within a context of what I have termed ‘polytemporality’. This approach questions Dee’s relationship to periodising
conventions and to the historiographical recuperation of identity following perceived temporal ruptures (such as the Reformation). It challenges the standard
notion of Dee as the archetypal ‘Renaissance conjurer’ by bringing to the forefront Dee’s own assessment of the ‘past, present and hereafter’ of his reputation. It
argues that Dee’s multiple identities are instead reflective of a polytemporal reflexivity that is heightened by a conflict between his intellectual hubris and
personal insecurity. Dee emerges as a figure poised uncomfortably in and outside of his society’s conceptions of temporality, influenced by the past and self-consciously
aware of the future."



Rachel Reid: Past, Present, and Hereafter to be Written: The Polytemporal Identities of John Dee


https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfil..._Final.pdf

MICHAEL WILDING TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE COUNCILLOR, THE CHARLATAN, AND THE CROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE

https://brazen-head.org/2020/10/18/john-...ss-darkly/



See also Wilding's brief biography of Edward Kelly:

https://www.academia.edu/41049495/Biogra..._alchemist

An amazing site by Jordan Cole.

Browse Dee's life by date, topic, person, place or source.

https://www.drjohndee.net/

"This essay discusses a significant component of alchemical discourse in the early modern period, the relations between alchemy and myth."

https://furnaceandfugue.org/essays/forshaw/

Glenn Magee.

"Hegel’s library included Hermetic writings by Agrippa, Boehme, Bruno, and Paracelsus. He read widely on Mesmerism, psychic phenomenal dowsing, precognition, and sorcery. He publicly associated himself with known occultists, like Franz von Baader. He structured his philosophy in a manner identical to the Hermetic use of ‘Correspondences!’ He relied on histories of thought that discussed Hermes Trismegistus, Pico della Mirandola, Robert Fludd, and Knorr von Rosenroth alongside Plato, Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. He stated in his lectures more than once that the term “speculative” means the same thing as “mystical.” He believed in an “Earth Spirit” and corresponded with colleagues about the nature of magic. He aligned himself, informally, with “Hermetic” societies such as the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians. Even Hegel’s doodles were Hermetic, as we shall see in chapter 3 when I discuss the mysterious “triangle diagram”."


Book chapter with useful references.


https://www.marxists.org/reference/subje.../magee.htm

"Within alchemical writing there is both a religious and scientific register in simultaneous coexistence. The linguistic symbols of alchemy are themselves to be understood as chemical matter embedded in the world by divine providence: a principle manifest in the doctrine of signatures. The natural world offers a complex but ultimately resolvable hermeneutic challenge to the natural scientist, whose job it becomes to be a reader of the book of nature wherein the Creator has inscribed a legible, if often allusive, meaning and purpose. This paper will proceed to explore how early modern alchemical-thinking impacted attitudes towards language and meaning in The Winter’s Tale."

Full text with Download button.

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/accessus/vol6/iss2/5/