The Alchemical Code in Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'

LYNDY ABRAHAM

"Amongst the most striking allusions in 'To his Coy Mistress' are those to 'the lovers and the tomb' and to the 'amorous birds of prey', both well known images of the alchemical union of man and woman, and two of the most memorable emblems in the visual representation of the alchemical process."


Full text.

https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu....ew/461/435

"Drugs Kept Me Alive is a solo performance choreographed by Jan Fabre,
devoted to a ‘magician of soap’, the HIV-seropositive performer Antony
Rizzi. In this performance, survival, thanks to prescribed medication
and illegal substances, is staged by the performer’s interaction with soapy
water, which demonstrates the alchemical marriage of opposites."


https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/84...lakidi.pdf

The Roots of a Science of Consciousness in Hermetic Alchemy

Alchemy is not only the origin of systematic experimentation and chemistry but also the first attempt to create a cohesive science of consciousness. Those early philosophers of nature treated mental contents as objective phenomena, and they believed the universal operations used in their laboratories could transform a dark leaden mind into a shining golden one. The Hermetic philosophy behind alchemy taught that our thoughts and feelings are the thoughts and feelings of the whole universe, and that intrinsic perspective generated deep insight into the structure of mind. Alchemists viewed consciousness as a natural force that could be harnessed through a marriage of logic and intuition – a union of objective and subjective realities. Like modern seekers of a unified field theory, alchemists sought one true philosophy of universal principles that were as valid in Nature as they were in their own minds and souls, and in the One Mind of the Cosmos. The resulting cauldron of ideas on mind and matter leads to a truer understanding of the Philosopher’s Stone – not as an object but a state of mind."

https://8676f4402e9f7cf4678e-11bcc0f16b7..._Hauck.pdf

George B. Kauffman

From 'Gold Bulletin'

Paywalled.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03214689

"This collection of poems (a 'digital chap-book') by Australian-based poet Ian Irvine (Hobson) experiments with the concept of 'alchemical autobiography' and is thus based upon various stages of 'spiritual alchemy' as augmented by contemporary archetypal-transpersonal psychology."

At Scribd


https://fr.scribd.com/document/136885104...l-Sequence

Du Bellay and the Language of Alchemy: The "Songe"

The Modern Language Review
Vol. 82, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 844-853 (10 pages)


At JSTOR

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3729056

That Which Is Not Yet Known: An Analysis of Michael Maier’s Alchemical Work
through Arcana Arcanissima

A dissertation submitted by Olivia Jean Happel to Pacifica Graduate Institute

"Maier is famous for works such as the Atalanta Fugiens, and his depth and breadth of mythological and alchemical scholarship is profound. This study focuses on one chapter from Arcana Arcanissima on the Trojan War to discover Maier’s analyses of myth, alchemy, and religion."

Full text.

https://www.proquest.com/openview/3dc442...750&diss=y

Chapter 14 of this book, entitled Alchemical Narratives, "sheds light on the uses of modern alchemical discourse by three artists and writers who were affiliated with surrealism: British-born artist Leonora Carrington, British artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and Greek poet and critic Nanos Valaoritis. All three writers experimented with the potentialities of alchemical language, writing novels premised upon esotericism and myth in terms of imagery, plot, and sensibility: The Stone Door (1977) and The Hearing Trumpet (1976) by Carrington; Goose of Hermogenes (1961) and I Saw Water (2014) by Colquhoun; From the Bones Rising (1982) and Xerxes’s Treasure (1984) by Valaoritis."

Behind a paywall:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs...79FDED3283

"Alas De Liona directs self-directs the atmospheric promo for The Alchemist's Son.

Shot at Ferniehirst Castle in Jedburgh, the video is a dreamy blend of performance and lyrical overlays, gently stirring and melancholic in its style.

From the breathtaking location through to lingering abstract shots of chess piece characters, it's an enigmatic concept that leaves room for interpretation."


https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2025/02/...iona/90214

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79754T4D1bI

Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Alchemical Wizards by Sybrina Durant

"Kids love magical things and the periodic table is full of them. Wizards introduce young learners to some chemistry facts and elemental fantasy in this fun science book."

https://bookgoodies.com/category/books-b...ens-books/

https://www.bewitchingbooktours.biz/2025...r-for.html