"John Griswold’s work dissects mythological classicist tropes, fragmenting and recombining them, with all their latent meaning, within a surrealist frame of reference. He has amassed a lexicon of symbolic devices from ancient classical sources, antiquarian emblem books, baroque mythological and devotional iconography and alchemical treatises. Griswold’s fascination with the persistence of neoclassical and romantic allusions and symbolic devices, injected throughout 19th and early 20th century secret societies and fraternal organizations, and their relationship to changing frameworks of modern authority and power, permeates his work. Griswold’s training as an art conservator informs his archaic painting techniques."

https://www.goldbugpasadena.com/collecti...1B02wUfRFJ


   

"Throughout history, humanity has been driven by an insatiable desire to unlock its full potential. From the ancient alchemists seeking the Philosopher’s Stone and the elixir of life to modern biohackers experimenting with nootropics and longevity hacks, this quest for self-optimization is deeply ingrained in our collective psyche. While the tools and terminology have evolved, the essence of the pursuit remains strikingly similar: to enhance health, focus, memory, intelligence, and longevity."

https://felixthemage.substack.com/p/mode...nt-alchemy

"Honey for the Ants completes an ‘alchemical trilogy’, after The Funnel and Syphon. These albums are informed by mystical and gnostic texts, celebrating the weird, unhinged and occasionally beautiful.In this forthcoming album the tonalities have shifted from mediaeval and renaissance to modernist dissonances. New singers and instrumentalists contribute to an emotional and textural richness achieved in a collaborative process. Distant musical periods, real and fictitious, are nonchalantly interwoven to create a delirious mongrel that salutes the imagination.Wojciech Rusin is a Polish-born audio visual artist based in London. He draws inspiration from alchemical and gnostic texts, early renaissance choral music and Eastern European mythologies. He released Syphon LP on AD 93 in 2022 and The Funnel LP on Akashic Records in April 2019. He designs and makes 3D-printed reed instruments, reworking ancient designs with contemporary 3D modelling technologies."

https://ad93.bandcamp.com/album/honey-for-the-ants

https://www.instagram.com/ad93rec/p/DDcR...mg_index=1

Probably AI, but not a bad summary:

https://www.clrn.org/how-did-alchemists-...o-science/

The Canon's Yeoman's Tale alchemically interpreted by Mouseoleum:

https://www.tiktok.com/@mouseoleum/video...2786437419

"Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-Hygeia, is from Fulcanelli’s ‘The Dwellings of the Philosophers‘ here in its 1979 Editions Jean-Jacques Pauvert-third edition. Excerpts are from Part II, Chapter 2, ‘Francis the Second’s body guards‘, from page 270 to 273. A Via-HYGEIA English translation from the original French."

https://via-hygeia.art/when-fulcanelli-d...rrounding/

"The Emerald Tablet has baffled scholars and seekers for centuries—but I’ve cracked its secret code! Discover the hidden wisdom behind this ancient text and how it reveals the ONE force that generates all of reality and unlocks the key to creation and manifestation."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYS19-qqItc

"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most perplexing and enduring mysteries of all time. Discovered in 1912, this ancient manuscript has baffled cryptographers, historians, and linguists for over a century. Filled with an unidentifiable script, bizarre illustrations of unknown plants, celestial charts, and strange creatures, this book remains unsolved despite countless attempts to decode it."

Forthcoming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BiMWzIAUeM

Translate from Modern English into late Medieval English:

https://anythingtranslate.com/translator...ranslator/


and many others:

https://anythingtranslate.com/translators/

Thread Title reads: "I want to be an alchemist when I grow up."

"Atorène’s course starts with the presentation of the Philosophical Week, which is the musical interval of the Last Cooking, then continues with the musical notation and Law of Attraction. Before getting to the Egg’s Densities Variations, and Degrees of Fire, the Canseliet’s apprentice provides the reader unfamiliar with the mathematical laws of the proportions of the sound with the construction of notes, intervals, and scales, and Pythagoras, as well as Zarlino’s, range."


https://www.labyrinthdesigners.org/alche...ts-part-1/

https://www.labyrinthdesigners.org/alche...ts-part-2/