"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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"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

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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

August Strindberg — Inferno

New translation by Carl Nordblom
with a preface by Dr. Henrik Johnsson 
 
August Strindberg's autobiographical Inferno is perhaps one of the most gripping and vividly written occult novels of all time. Set in the 1890s, it finds the renowned Swedish writer in the middle of his life and at the height of his literary career, yet consumed by a desire to abandon mundane life in search of the knowledge that unlocks the secrets of nature and spirit. He moves to Paris, leaving his wife and daughter behind, and resolves to devote himself entirely to alchemy and the esoteric sciences.

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The 'Sammlung unterschiedlicher bewährter Chymischer Schriften' (Collection of various proven Chymical writings) is an important German-language anthology of alchemical treatises, which is mainly attributed to the Flemish alchemist **Johann Isaac Hollandus** (and his presumed father Isaac Hollandus).

First published in Frankfurt am Main in 1667 (with later editions in Vienna in 1746 and 1773, among others), the work summarizes practical laboratory instructions, symbolic representations and alchemical philosophy of the early modern period.

Major works & treatises included

1. **From the hand of the philosophers** (*Manus philosophorum cum signaturis*)
A symbolic and practical guide with alchemical symbols and tool illustrations.
2. **Opus Saturni**
Focuses on lead (*Saturn*) and its transmutation as well as the production of alchemical preparations from it.
3. **Opera Vegetabilia**
Describes processes using plant substances and wine to produce the so-called *Lapis vegetabilis*.
4. **Opus Minerale** (*Mineral-Werck*)
Contains detailed instructions and engravings/woodcuts of smelting furnaces, distilling devices and recipes (including for the production of artificial gemstones).
5. **Attachment of a Fragment from the Cabala**
Combines hermetic-alchemical ideas with kabbalistic number and symbol theory.
6. **Tractatus de Lapide Philosophico**
A treatise on the nature and manufacture of the *Philosopher's Stone*.
7. **Tractate on the wanderings of those alchymists** (*Auctoris incerti*, partly attributed to Michael Sendivogius)
A critical look at common mistakes, frauds, and misinterpretations in the practice of alchemy.

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### Meaning & Special Features

* **Practical focus:** Compared to purely allegorical texts, the Hollandus writings offer unusually concrete chemical process descriptions (distillation, alloys, salts).
* **Illustrations:** The editions are known for their copperplates and wood engravings that vividly depict stills, laboratory equipment, and the symbolic “Hand of the Philosophers.”
* **Reception:** The writings had a great influence on hermeticism and early chemical technology in Central Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.


Original texts here:

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/vi...53?page=,1

"This article provides a first in-depth look at the La fonderia dell’Illmo et Ecc.mo Signor Don Antonio de’ Medici, a publication that was issued at the Casino di San Marco in Florence in 1604. This work has been deemed to be lost by many scholars on the Casino, but in fact a copy of it is found in the British Library. The article analyses the contents of La fonderia, paying particular attention to the alchemy and Paracelsianism to be identified therein. La fonderia is primarily a book of medical recipes, but also contains some intriguing theoretical parts. The paper also examines the marginalia that can be found in the British Library copy of La fonderia. The article concludes with a reflection on the importance of alchemy and Paracelsianism at Don Antonio’s Casino."

Full text.

https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/37/1...yOe6w-IuEV

"The brain-teasing Veronese riddle might instead make sense to alchemists. Especially if associated with the inexplicably neglected drawing on the verso. In fact, it would have sufficed a normal scientific attitude, that’s to say turning the page, to see a sketch very similar to the long tongues three-headed face of Turba Philosophorum. The two illustrations are much alike, but the Veronese parchment is much more sophisticated than Turba Philosophorum’s. As for the riddle, it was a common medieval conundrum: ” In front of him led oxen, White fields plowed, A white plow held, A black seed sowed”. Even Umberto Eco reported it in his novel “Baudolino”, but in a close to Latin form."

https://labyrinthdesigners.org/alchemy-l...pretation/