"Today we talk all about the power of alchemy, the work of reclusive alchemists, and how these figures worked in history and in Role-Playing Games!"

The Alchemist as Scientist 2:08-3:38
The Alchemist as Sorcerer 3:39-4:53
Why Is the Image Of The Alchemist So Muddled? 4:54- 13:13
The Work of the Alchemist 13:14 - 17:50
Alchemists In Our Games 17:51-26:45
Q and A 26:46-46:30


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c90SYiAa0SY

Giving the Secret of the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of Youth, and the Universal Solvent. Also showing that the TRUE Alchemists did not seek to Transmute base metals into gold, but sought the Highest Initiation or the Development of the Spiritual Nature in Man.

Open Source. All three volumes.

https://archive.org/details/1907-clymer-...sts____v1/

"The 1677 Mutus Liber (Silent or Wordless Book) is among the most enduringly enigmatic and popular books of alchemy.  Composed in the twilight of alchemical theory and practice, it seems to present a method for producing the Stone of the Philosopher's using Spring Dew gathered and transformed by Masculine and Feminine alchemists."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JGXYuC...-C&index=6

"Chaos King is the second book in the Infinity Alchemist duology. There is great political strain in the world of alchemy, as anti-alchemists make a stand..If you are a lover of alchemy, young adult fantasy, or need something in the LGBTQ realm, this duology is for you!"

https://teresacrider.wordpress.com/2025/...-its-peak/

1000+ free icons from the Noun Project.

https://thenounproject.com/browse/icons/term/alchemy/

"Vaughan, Thomas; Arthur Edward Waite
The Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes
London: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 497pp. Octavo."


At Ken Sanders:

https://www.kensandersbooks.com/pages/bo...bNzVgDEZAC

See also:
https://archive.org/details/worksofthoma...9/mode/2up

"Drawing from medieval iconography, astronomy, and alchemical symbology, Lurçat’s compositions were not simply decorative but metaphysical cartographies...If Lurçat’s wall offered a cosmological map, Leonora Carrington’s tapestries became wombs of the unconscious — a dreamlike weaving of myth, magic, and womanhood."

https://rugandkilim.com/blogs/when-jean-...5DMyjr67Cl

   

The alchemist Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Anṣārī al-Andalusī, known as Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (fl. 6th/12th century) is the author of Shudhūr al-dhahab (The Splinters of Gold), one of the most famous poetry collections of Arabic alchemy, which has been the object of no less than thirteen commentaries. The numerous manuscripts of Shudhūr al-dhahab and its commentaries have been read and copied for more than 700 years in various parts of the Islamicate world, from Morocco to India.

The very first commentary on Shudhūr al-dhahab was composed by the author Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs himself. It was transmitted by his disciple Abū l-Qāsim Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī under the title Kitāb Ḥall mushkilāt al-Shudhūr (The Unraveling of the Difficulties of ‘The Splinters’) and is extant in at least 31 manuscripts, of which 27 have been taken into account for this critical edition. This book provides the first edition of Kitāb Ḥall mushkilāt al-Shudhūr, along with an Arabic-English glossary of its alchemical terminology.


https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/...79356/html

Alchemical Matters: Essays on the Precursor to Modern Chemistry

"Ever wonder what the alchemists were talking about? Alchemical Matters: Essays on the Precursor to Modern Chemistry provides in-depth background information, useful hints, and tips. The collection of essays delves into the possible chemistry of the alchemist's recipes for the transmutation of metals and the concocting of elixirs, the apparatus employed, and the theories used to explain their observations. Alchemical Matters, then, is a useful source of general information for the beginning student of alchemy but is, as well, a valuable interpretative tool for those pursuing a more in-depth study of the enigmatic precursor to modern chemistry."

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemical-Matter...1645387879

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 395

"CCCC MS 395 is a compilation of alchemical texts copied partly in the early fifteenth century and partly in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. It begins with a long text by Iohannes de Rupescissa OFM (Roqetaillade, d. c. 1362 - pseudo-Ramon Lull), his Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae. This section contains a few diagrams and coloured drawings, notably two full-page (ff. 49v-50r) illustrating lunaria grass. The style of this drawing and some texts in Catalan, suggest this part may have been made in Catalonia. Textual additions have been made by an English scribe, and the book seems to have come to England by the second half of the fifteenth century. In addition to a number of other minor alchemical tracts, the codex also contains a number of works attributed to Robert Green of Welby (c. 1467-after 1544), including De fama, Quaestiones super benedicti lapidis philosophici compositione, Secretum, Pulchrum somnium and Dialogus inter Hilardum necromanticum et quendam spiritum. Green's name is also inscribed on a flyleaf of the MS, though it is not clear whether this was intended as a mark of ownership or as a note of the authorship of the texts within the volume."

https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/nq795kd7274


Also referenced here:

https://www.laurawatsonart.com/2024/08/t...nical.html