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| India's Alchemical Legacy |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-09-2026, 11:47 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"India possesses a profound historical knowledge of alchemy through Rasashastra and Siddha traditions, focusing on mercury processing for medicine and transmutation. These practices hold untapped potential for modern pharmaceuticals and materials science, yet they face decline due to scientific skepticism and regulatory hurdles. Despite this, select Siddha practitioners continue secretive applications in traditional healing."
https://ranachanda.blogspot.com/2026/01/...astra.html
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| A proposed partial decoding of the Voynich script |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-09-2026, 11:06 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Stephen Bax.
"The intriguing 15 th century Voynich manuscript has often been called "the most mysterious manuscript in the world". Filled with beguiling images of plants, stars, and strange designs and people, the manuscript has perplexed readers for centuries. We know nothing about its purpose, origin, or authorship. It has been called by the New York Times the 'white whale of the code-breaking world' (Markoff 2011, np). Until now, not a single word of the manuscript has been convincingly interpreted or decoded. This paper offers a proposed partial decoding of the Voynich script. It adopts a 'bottom-up' approach, following the method employed successfully to decode Egyptian hieroglyphs and Cretan Linear B script in the past."
https://www.academia.edu/5932444/A_propo...ich_script
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| Dissertation: Alchemy in Medieval Islam |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-09-2026, 11:03 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Alchemy in Medieval Islam and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī
By Takatomo Inoue
"This dissertation aims to establish a basis when studying the history of alchemy in medieval Islam, to make clear what is alchemists’ alchemical theory and what is not in spite of affirmative claims, to reassess understanding of alchemy among modern scholars, to explore experimentalism in alchemy and to examine al-Rāzī’s alchemy, use of experience, and the relationship between his alchemy and medicine."
https://www.academia.edu/144916889/Alche...%81z%C4%AB
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| Alchemy in Modernism |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-09-2026, 11:00 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Evans Lansing Smith
From Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism. New Series. 13.1 (Spring 1994): 11-18.
"Several of the fundamental metaphors of medieval alchemy survive in the scholarship and literature of Modernism (1895-1946), including the notion of the breakdown of molecular compounds to the four elements from which all creation (cosmogonic, ontogenetic, poetic) derives. This occurs in a variety of symbolic crucibles, and precipitates Modernist variants of such hermetic images of the Opus as the conjunction of Sol and Luna, the Child, and the philosopher’s stone. Informing the whole process is the notion of transfiguration, an alchemical allegory of poeisis that we find in Modernism, all the way from Strindberg to H.D."
https://www.academia.edu/34765457/Alchem...ernism_pdf
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