"For centuries, alchemists tried in secret to find a way to produce the philosopher's stone - a legendary item that supposedly has the power to transform base metals into gold. Whoever found a way to do this would be powerful beyond belief, so alchemists hid their work in cryptic artwork and poetry, so that only those who were truly worthy could find their secrets. In this video, I speak to Professor Lawrence Principe, who has spent his career studying the history of alchemy, which has allowed him to decode many of its secret experiments in his own laboratory. He teaches me how to interpret a famous alchemical book called The 12 Keys of Basil Valentine."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ3BnraatFY

"Amber was an essential part of the stock-in-trade of the early modern apothecary. Employed in an amulet, as an otherwise unrefined powder, or in the form of alchemically processed chemical derivatives, contemporary accounts show that it possessed exceptionally wide-ranging potential as a medicinal simple."

https://hekint.org/2026/08/20/amber-a-ve...ia-medica/

"ong before modern physics classified Hydrogen as Element No. 1, esoteric traditions posited the existence of a single, primordial substance from which the material universe unfolded. Referred to variously as the Prima Materia, the Universal Monad, or the First Matter, this invisible substratum was believed to hold the seed of all life, form, and consciousness."

https://gabcomcodex.wordpress.com/2026/0...cal-monad/

362 stones, each with its mineral profile, traditional meaning, chakra pairing, and honest care notes. Free, sourced from named authorities.

https://crystalstones.com/crystals

"Delve deep into the intricacies of Alchemi-Culture and Aurelian Medicine with our educational content. Created and hosted by Phoenix Aurelius, the esteemed founder of the Phoenix Aurelius Research Academy, our program offers a unique opportunity to learn directly from the visionary himself. Experience Alchemy, Hermeticism, Spagyria, Agriculture, Ecology, Sociology, Economics, and other Life Sciences through a unique lens designed to inspire the greatest sense of personal and collective health, happiness, and fulfillment possible."

https://www.phoenixaurelius.org/pages/education

"A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings Of Ithell Colquhoun gathers nearly 40 texts by this unique artist and magical practitioner, and displays cohesively, and for the first time, the impressive breadth of Colquhoun's magical interests and expertise, and how these came to inform her singular works. Ranging from early encounters with the Kabbalah and esoteric color theory, to Celtic mysticism and alchemy, this volume, edited by Colquhoun scholar and folklorist Amy Hale, promises to shed a necessary light on an integral body of Colquhoun's thought that has remained occluded for too long."

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Watkins are offering a 15% DISCOUNT on all pre-orders made for this title until their copies have arrived from the publisher. The scheduled publication date is 22 September 2026.

https://tinyurl.com/3um2spr2

"The aim of this paper is to accurately assess the epistemological status of Albertus Magnus’ (ca 1200-80) alchemy. In modern bibliography there is a “black or white” approach to the question of whether Albertus regarded alchemy as an art or scientia, and thus the adoption of an absolute thesis on the matter tends to create a series of interpretational problems. In contrast, I argue that Albertus’ approach to alchemy does not exclude either art or scientia and, depending on the context, the Dominican master sometimes considers alchemy as an art—when it is connected with manual labor—and sometimes as a scientia—when it is connected to natural-philosophical and metaphysical aspects. At the end of my paper, I offer a way of properly assessing the Albertian alchemy, and determining how and when to accurately connect it with the notions of art and scientia."

Open access.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/...CE99BB4125

Peter J. French

"First published in 1987. John Dee was Renaissance England's first Hermetic magus, a philosopher magician. He was also a respected practical scientist, an immensely learned man who investigated all areas of knowledge. In this fine biography, Peter French shows that not only magic and science, but geography, antiquarianism, theology and the fine arts were fields in which Dee was deeply involved. Through his teaching, writing and friendships with many of the most important figures of the age, Dee was at the centre of great affairs and had a profound influence on major developments in sixteenth-century England. Peter French places this extraordinary individual within his proper historical context, describing the whole world of Renaissance science, Platonism and Hermetic magic."

https://tinyurl.com/k2svx2m7

The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus ISA Revealed: A Systems-Physics Audit of Florian Ebeling's The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus

"This paper presents a systems-architecture reinterpretation of Florian Ebeling’s The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus (2007), analyzing its macro-historical account of Hermetic transmission through the lens of Coherence-Geometrodynamics (CGD), the Virtual Ego Framework (VEF), and the Universal Glyph Language (UGL)."

Allan Christopher Beckingham

https://zenodo.org/records/19682244

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=101...5295236120

Text at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-He...0801445469

Review:
https://www.academia.edu/54909395/The_Se...an_Ebeling

   

Essays on Taoism and Taoist Alchemy: Volume 1

by Fabrizio Pregadio

"This book brings together a collection of studies on the doctrines, practices, and history of Taoism and Taoist alchemy. Based on original Taoist sources, it supports its discussions with a large number of quotations from texts belonging to different schools and historical periods, providing access to the language and ideas of the tradition."

https://www.amazon.com/Essays-Taoism-Tao...0985547561