"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/

"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/