With the Pophams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHmmha_xWu8

Includes Luther's famous comment on alchemy:


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"The science of alchemy I like well, and, indeed, `tis the philosophy of the ancients. I like it not only for the profits it brings in melting metals, in decocting preparing, extracting, and distilling herbs, roots; I like it also for the sake of the allegory and secret signification, which is exceedingly fine, touching the resurrection of the dead at the last day. For, as in a furnace the fire extracts and separates from a substance the other portions, and carries upward the spirit, the life, the sap, the strength, while the unclean matter, the dregs, remain at the bottom, like a dead and worthless carcass; even so God, at the day of judgment, will separate all things through fire, the righteous from the ungodly. The Christians and righteous shall ascend upward into heaven, and there live everlastingly, but the wicked and the ungodly, as the dross and filth, shall remain in hell, and there be damned."


http://www.lutherdansk.dk/Table-Talk/index.htm:

"In his admirable work The Great Chain of Being, Professor Lovejoy has shown the importance which the concept of the Scale of Being and its figurative expression, the chain, had for Western thought from the early Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century. In an introductory chapter he has outlined the genesis of the idea itself in Greek philosophy. Yet, not primarily concerned with the Greek development, he has refrained from inquiring how far back in ancient literature one can trace the metaphor, and by what process it became a phrase identified with the Neo-Platonic theory of emanation. These questions I propose to discuss here, taking as my point of departure the passage in Macrobius’ commentary on the Somnium Scipionis (I, 14, 15) through which, as Professor Lovejoy says, probably most medieval writers became acquainted with the simile of the chain."

Ludwig Edelstein.

Book chapter. Full access.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_edited_vol...er/2450975

Text translated and transcribed from Elias Zetzner - Teatrum Chemicum vol 3

https://www.alchemy-texts.com/book/book-...dly-glory/

"Spiritual alchemy is the art and process of transforming the self. It is the metaphysical path of purifying the soul, awakening divine potential, and achieving inner union with the sacred. While classical alchemy used symbols like mercury, sulfur, and salt to describe chemical transformations, spiritual alchemy uses those same symbols to illustrate the journey of the soul from shadow to light."

https://terraincognitacoven.com/terra-in...l-alchemy/

"Ever wondered how crystals are formed? Whether it’s the shimmering sparkle of quartz, the earthy greens of malachite, or the magical glow of selenite, every crystal tells the story of Earth's powerful creative forces."

https://divinecrystalheart.com.au/blogs/...-uncovered

I have no idea about the copyright status of this book.


Thomas Crump describes how our creativity, expressed in the design and production of tools and scientific instruments, has continually extended tne frontiers of science and, as a consequence, human civilization."


https://dl.libcats.org/genesis/498000/b8...78816/_as/[Thomas_Crump]_A_Brief_History_of_Science_As_Seen(libcats.org).pdf

"This paper explores the epistemic limitations of human knowledge as shaped by embodiment, drawing on both Western philosophical critique (Kant, Nagel, Foucault, Wittgenstein, Kuhn) and Indian Tantric traditions, particularly Śrī Vidyā and the Lalitā Sahasranāma. It argues that while knowledge reflects our finite, situated cognition rather than external reality itself, intelligence—whether human, biological, or artificial—holds the potential to transcend these constraints. Central to this inquiry is the Śrī Cakra, a Tantric mandala understood here as an epistemic and psycho-technological architecture that maps the journey from conditioned cognition (vaikhārī vāk) to non-dual awareness (parā vāk). By placing this model in conversation with contemporary work in bioengineering (Michael Levin) and speculative computation (Stephen Wolfram), the paper reimagines artificial intelligence as a potential catalyst for buddhi—discriminative, relational, and liberatory intelligence. Against reductive paradigms of efficiency and control, the paper advocates for a pluralistic epistemology grounded in co-relationality, ethical transformation, and ontological humility. It proposes a future in which intelligence—human and artificial—serves not domination, but the collective flourishing of being."

https://philarchive.org/archive/PRAEKA-2

47 years of research
15 years of teaching
+ 1000 students


https://courses.damanhur.academy/aen/alchemy-school

See also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRgznLBwElc&vl=fr
https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/sh...manhurians

"In Ithell Colquhoun’s “Diagrams of Love,” (ca. 1939–42), nude couples are entangled in intimate poses and drenched in sublime colors. In this series of paintings and drawings, she depicts the human body surrounded by radiant energy fields, inspired by alchemical traditions, kabbalah, and tantric imagery. “Diagrams of Love” sums up the British Surrealist artist’s vision of “sex magic,” a source of inspiration throughout her work."

Includes a discussion of some of her contemporaries.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-edit...-sex-magic