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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-17-2025, 12:30 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - Replies (1)

Ukrainian alchemical death metallers Tria Prima to release debut album ‘The Mortificatio’

https://www.moshville.co.uk/news/video/2...tificatio/

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  At Lux Mentis: Alchemical Press series
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-17-2025, 12:29 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Smith, Patrick J., eds.; JD Holmes.

Alchemical Press series [18 Volumes] [Alchemy].

Yours for 475 dollars.


https://www.luxmentis.com/pages/books/13...es-alchemy

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  Alchemical symbols vector images & illustrations
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-17-2025, 12:25 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Discover 866 high-quality, royalty-free alchemical symbols vectors, clipart, and graphics

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  Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-17-2025, 12:23 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Grund, P. J., & Norja, S. (2025). Alchemy, the Vernacular, and Text Production in Late Medieval England: Presentation Strategies in Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37. Ambix, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2025.2555709

"The article studies the strategies that late-medieval scribes used to present alchemical texts to their audience. Investigating two late fifteenth-century alchemical codices – Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37, both almost exclusively written in English – we demonstrate that the copyists took considerable pains to present reader-friendly texts. They provided neatly separated textual units, furnishing them with headings, manicules (pointing hands), and even a table of contents. This organisation is supported by the use of various ink colours, letter sizes, and framing devices. The appearance suggests significant pre-planning, perhaps even in a commercial context. We argue that these manuscripts highlight how readers engaged with alchemical texts and, by extension, that they reveal the importance afforded to texts and the vernacular as a vehicle for disseminating alchemical knowledge. In other words, it is not only the number of surviving manuscripts and their alchemical contents that are good indicators of late-medieval valuations of alchemy. Our study underscores how the visual materiality of extant textual artefacts also constitutes crucial evidence for our understanding of how practitioners used alchemical texts. It also exposes the place of alchemical texts in the text production industry of the time and illustrates the status of fifteenth-century alchemy more widely."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...%200pubmed

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  Separatio: The Alchemical Secret That Ends Confusion
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-17-2025, 12:21 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Jungian.

"Alchemical separatio is the skill of sorting out your mind. You separate what belongs to you—your complexes, habitual triggers, and painful memories--from what is happening in the world around you. In the laboratory of your life, you separate present triggers from older wounds, and literal facts from symbolic meanings. This is part of your essential self-ordering instinct. As you bring more and more of yourself into conscious awareness, a delightful calm will tell you you’re on the right path. Join us and learn how to gain the profound clarity necessary on the path of Individuation."

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  A Conceptual Interpretation of the Voynich Manuscript
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-17-2025, 09:51 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Decoding the Unreadable? A Conceptual Interpretation of the Voynich Manuscript Through a Brythonic Lens"

By Erydir Ceisiwr and Lumos Aureon

"This document serves as a conceptual breakdown of the Complete Voynich Interpretation Thesis authored by Erydir and Lumos, available in full on their profile. It summarizes and expands on core symbolic and linguistic ideas explored in the original work, which proposed a Brythonic-rooted decryption framework grounded in Welsh language constructs, Druidic cosmology, and symbolic transformation."

https://www.academia.edu/129262803/Decod...honic_Lens

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  A Proposal for Reading the Voynich Manuscript
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-17-2025, 09:48 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"In this work, we provide a proposal for the transliteration and translation of the text of the Voynich Manuscript. Based upon our findings, the language of the Voynich Manuscript is a Vulgar Latin dialect, likely affected by a contemporary Italian dialect."


https://www.academia.edu/39776000/A_Prop...Manuscript

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  The Linguistics of the Voynich Manuscript
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-17-2025, 09:47 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

By Luke Lindemann

"The Voynich Manuscript is a fifteenth-century illustrated cipher manuscript. In this overview of recent approaches to the Voynich Manuscript, we summarize and evaluate current work on the language that underlies this document. We provide arguments for treating the document as natural language (rather than a medieval hoax) and show how statistical arguments can be made about the phonology, morphology, and structure of the document even though the contents remain undecipherable."

https://www.academia.edu/79090625/The_Li...Manuscript

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  The Key to the Voynich Manuscript:
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-15-2025, 11:20 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Jacek Syguła, Agnieszka Syguła (formerly Kałużna)

2017

Abstract: This article aims to give the clearest and most coherent presentation of many properties and oddities of the language underlying the glyph metastructure of the Voynich Manuscript. The key question here seems to be: what causes the high compression of the manuscript text, characterized by the low "2nd order entropy"? And, more specifically, if this is a property linked to the structure and morphology of a natural language or constructed language. Or, maybe, the compact character of the text has something to do with the way it was written (the alphabet, abjad, abugida, syllabary)? We have devoted over a year of systematic analytical work to study the characteristics of this medieval manuscript, posing a lot of difficult and enquiring questions in the process and searching for answers by coming up with counterexamples that enabled us to confirm and reject different working hypotheses.


https://www.academia.edu/33425527/The_Ke...Manuscript

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  Successful Decoding Results in the Voynich Manuscript
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-15-2025, 11:18 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

The Doorway to Deciphering: Methodology and Analysis of Successful
Decoding Results in the Voynich Manuscript.
Alisa Gladyševa(Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania).

Despite all the unsuccessful decipherment research methods that others have tried to apply, there was no solution in reading the Voynich manuscript. This research describes recent successful decoding methodology from the very doorway to deciphering the whole Voynich manuscript. In particular, the investigation of background information and detailed analytical studies of the characters of the Voynich manuscript, words that were written in plain way, which have been performed to define the algorithm of the encoded text. It gives emphasis on the importance of this research for its successful decipherment.

https://www.academia.edu/125523657/The_D..._Gladyseva

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