Interesting articles reviewing both the original Albin Grau 1922 silent movie and the version by Robert Eggers premiering on New Year's Day 2025:

https://www.crazyalchemist.com/nosferatu...of-horror/
(with links to the 1922 movie on YouTube and a podcast)

https://lampoonmagazine.com/article/2024...ma-horror/

Daily Mail Q & A:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...mists.html

Useful list to browse through:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy_in...ertainment

"This podcast explores the evolution of Mysteries from ancient times to the Middle Ages, focusing on the shift from outward joy to inner tragedy experienced by those seeking spiritual knowledge. The podcast examines how ancient Mysteries, such as those in Asia Minor, Ephesus, Greece, and Hibernia, operated in secrecy within temples, with initiates undergoing pain and sorrow to attain spiritual enlightenment. This pursuit, despite its challenges, was characterized by a profound sense of joy."

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

"Immerse yourself into the warm, sunlit heart of 19th-century Provence, where a simple glass of golden-green elixir holds the fate of an entire monastery. In "The Reverend Father Gaucher’s Elixir" by Alphonse Daudet, discover the tale of a humble cowherd turned alchemical savant, whose concoction breathes life into the crumbling cloisters of the White Fathers. But what begins as a divine solution soon becomes a devilish temptation, testing the soul of the endearingly eccentric Father Gaucher. Will the secret of the elixir bring salvation or ruin?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vkB1lab8M

English text here:
https://archive.org/details/alphonsedaud...0/mode/2up

French text here:
https://archive.org/details/bwb_KP-883-5...4/mode/2up

"Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences is offering a graduate-level course next semester featuring “trans saints” and “genderfluid angels.” The broad theme for the course is “Medieval Trans Studies.” It can be counted toward a Master’s or Ph.D. in English."

https://www.campusreform.org/article/bos...gels/27066

"Togoda is an advanced thematic AI search engine that offers a unique browsing experience, particularly appealing for users seeking deeper insights and enhanced privacy."

https://togoda.com/

More info here:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail...iogd?pli=1

Adam's latest translation project.

"In December 2022 Adam McLean embarked on a project to translate into English a number of alchemical writings that have not been available before. He has translated items from Latin, German and French. These are issued in inexpensive paperbacks through Amazon. Use your local Amazon to get the lowest (or even free) delivery costs. Over 100 of these books have been issued by December 2024. More are in preparation. This is a unique source of alchemical texts previously unavailable in English."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgej6xqouhU

"Some called her a serial murderer and others called her a seductive assassin, but the truth was far more sinister...If poison is truly a woman's weapon, no one has wielded it like Giulia Tofana - the lady who was none other than the mother of Renaissance Italy's most effective and traceless poison 'Aqua Tofana'. The poison was famously used by wives looking to discreetly off their husbands, mostly for the purpose of escaping dangerous and abusive marriages."

https://www.tbsnews.net/glitz/splash/whe...ana-319327

"With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical revival...The philosopher’s stone about which Lévi and the alchemists write, therefore, is a mystification—but it is a mystification with a profound purpose. When they speak of the philosopher’s stone they are speaking of something utterly real, but it doesn’t happen to be a stone in any ordinary sense, nor does it manufacture metallic gold out of lead—or for that matter out of thin air. “Our stone is not a stone,” the alchemists wrote, and for good measure:  “our gold is not the common gold”.”

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-ritual-of-...hapter-19/