"Russell Yoder's roots are in the radical Pietist tradition of Ephrata* and the Universalist tradition of his Family's ancestral mentor and mage, George de Benneville**. Common to both aspects of this heritage is an awareness of "alchemy" as a tool for effecting physical and spiritual change in our perceived reality -- perception being the key, of course; or as our seminal source of inspiration, Jacob Boehme has it,"our world must be made heaven, and heaven the world."


https://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Alchemis...1729593852


* Ephrata in Pennsylvania is noteworthy for having been the former seat of the Mystic Order of the Solitary, a semimonastic order of Seventh-Day Dunkers. The community, which contained both men and women, was founded by Johann Conrad Beissel in 1732.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephrata_Cloister


** De Benneville:
"Born in London on July 25, 1703 to aristocratic Huguenot French parents in the court of Queen Anne, de Benneville served as a sailor during his adolescent years, traveling around the world and began to question his religion and compare it to other world religions. He shed his Huguenot religion, developed his own ideas about Christianity, and became a preacher while still in his teens. De Benneville had a mystical experience and later a near death experience that he described in The Life and Trance of Dr. George De Benneville."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Benneville

Books by and about De Benneville here:

https://archive.org/search?query=%22geor...neville%22

"iscover the untold story of Sir Isaac Newton, the scientific genius behind gravity and classical mechanics, and his secret obsession with alchemy. Explore how Newton’s quest for the Philosopher's Stone shaped his understanding of the universe and bridged the realms of science and mysticism. This video delves into Newton’s alchemical experiments, the metaphysical dimensions of his work, and the legacy of his hidden studies."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO1iNe28Xj0

June 2025.

"I offer you an initiation, a discovery of this alchemist within you, the path of liberation."


Wednesday, June, 11 : Nevers – Bernadette Soubirous, faith and inner experience
Thursday, June, 12 : Orleans and Joan of Arc, the very archetype of the female warrior
Friday, June, 13 : Chartres, its alchemical cathedral and the Black Virgins
Saturday and Sunday, June, 14-15 : Mont Saint Michel, the inner journey

https://www.magdalenesacredjourneys.com/...ithin-you/

The Tale of George and Margaret Graham de Daniel Harms: their dangerous exploits thrilled a nation, but they were quickly forgotten. Now George and Margaret Graham are revealed, not only as famous balloonists, but also as astrologers, alchemists, and associates of such groups as the Rosicrucians and the Mercurii. For the first time, their story is told. 82 pages.

https://www.amazon.com/Balloonists-Alche...179806622X

"We are living in a time of profound transformation, where the veils of illusion are thinning, and the leaders of the New Aeon are called to awaken their dormant wisdom, embody their True Will, and co-create a world that reflects divine harmony. But how do we achieve this lofty purpose? The answer lies in illuminating the Sophia Light within us—a sacred process."

https://www.sacredanarchy.org/blog/illum...nima-mundi

"Dans cette vidéo : je vous propose de revenir aux origines, de suivre les anciens rites de magie sexuelle de l’Antiquité et de suivre l’évolution et ses condamnations jusqu’à notre époque. Nous parlerons aussi du tantrisme hindou, du taoïsme chinois, mais aussi de la magie sexuelle occidentale au sein des sociétés secrètes et des courants occultistes de la Belle Époque qui s’inspirent des traditions asiatique, mais réadaptée dans une cadre judéo-chrétien."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKx4IERA7vQ

"Leonardo Pellicanò works mainly with painting, exploring complex dimensions of thought and feeling through the medium. The memory of a cultured gaze is mixed in Pellicanò’s work with the freshness of the strokes, creating a fleeting space where pictorial structures open up to unexpected presences. Art history is utilized freely in a language of apparitions, going from pagan imagery to alchemical symbolism of the middle ages."

https://www.emanuelacampoli.com/artists/...%C3%B2/bio


   

"In this episode we discuss the alchemical processes and how they can be used to transform anything such as ourselves, relationships, communities, and even plants and minerals. Alchemy can be performed physically, mentally, and spiritually. This is a cornerstone episode for Alchemy Lab. We will use these processes going forward in all of our alchemy work. This is the heart of alchemy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsNCBbVG1l4

"As of a few days ago, only the nerdiest of nerds (I say this as one) had ever heard of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI subsidiary of the equally evocatively named High-Flyer Capital Management, a quantitative analysis (or quant) firm that initially launched in 2015. Yet within the last few days, it’s been arguably the most discussed company in Silicon Valley. That’s largely thanks to the release of DeepSeek-R1, a new large language model (LLM) that performs “reasoning” similar to OpenAI’s current best-available model o1 — taking multiple seconds or minutes to answer hard questions and solve complex problems as it reflects on its own analysis in a step-by-step, or “chain of thought” fashion."

https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-everyone-...-deepseek/

"Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy."

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/aristoteli...350357204/