"In his autobiography, Goethe half-apologetically admits the youthful enthusiasm he experienced for alchemical and mystical readings: Georg von Welling's obscure Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum and the anonymously published Aurea Catena Homeri, as well as works by Paracelsus, Basilis Valentinus and van Helmont. Originally published in 1952, this study shows how the symbols and concepts of alchemy played a key role in the genesis of Goethe's later works, both scientific and literary."

Another dodgy pdf site. Download at your own risk.

https://ru.z-lib.fm/book/1112327/b5f706/...=recommend

"Medicine and allied sciences flourished in the medieval Islamic world. 1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation tells the fascinating story of how generations of physicians from different countries and creeds created a medical tradition admired by friend and foe. It influences the fates and fortunes of countless human beings, both East and West."

https://www.1001cures.net/the-book

Extract:

https://muslimheritage.com/the-new-chemical-medicine/

"The patterns in suzani are not mere decoration. Red tulips, for example, symbolize protection against evil forces, while repetitive circles allude to ancient amulets against the evil eye. Thus, someone who knows the “grammar” of ornaments can “read” them. Uzbek motifs are often compared with medieval or Renaissance European symbols. For instance, the swastika, representing the cycle of life, was popular in both Central Asian and Celtic cultures. Harvard University researchers have even likened certain Uzbek designs to European alchemical symbols, showing humanity’s shared effort to express beliefs and hopes."

https://cisc.uz/en/news-item/575/

" Our collection includes amulets, talismans, tarot cards, pendulums, minerals and other esoteric accessories carefully selected to guarantee authenticity and high energy vibration."

https://www.despertarmagia.com/high-qual...tradition/

Released October 10th 2025.

https://elasticstage.com/jvlivs?fbclid=I...MjPnEMP8ZA

"Charging like a runaway semitrailer on a downhill grade and spanning the era from Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love into the darkness of 1980s Manhattan, Stone Junction is a wise and wildly imaginative novel about Daniel Pearse, an orphaned child who is taken under the wings of the AMO -- the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. An assortment of sages sharpen Daniel's wide-eyed outlook until he has the concentration of a card shark Zeta master, via apprenticeships in meditation, safecracking, poker, and the art of walking through walls. Wizards are made, not born, and this unconventional education sets Daniel on the trail of mysteries ancient and modern.A strange, six-pound diamond sphere held by the U.S. government in a New Mexico vault, rumored to be the Philosopher's Stone or the Holy Grail, becomes the AMO's obsession. In time, Daniel perfects his powers and heads off to steal the magic stone, and what happens changes his life forever."

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5266...e_Junction

"Alchemy, a symbolic and transformative practice, can be understood visually through the lens of an alchemical mandala. One prominent example is the "Azoth," a meditative emblem that captures the essence of transformation and the journey of the soul. The Azoth mandala, rooted in an illustration first published in 1659 by Basil Valentine, provides a roadmap for the alchemical processes, illustrating the interconnected stages of transformation."

https://setnakh.com/blogs/news/the-alche...-valentine

"In the medieval Arabic tradition of the so-called occult sciences, the concept of ramz (symbol, code) has acquired an important role in the way the authors were considering and reading the texts of their predecessors and writing their owns. This term, closely related to the notion of secret, covered various ideas of code: from allegories and allusions to codenames and secret alphabets. Above all, the alchemists made ramz a real topos of their literature. In this paper, we focus on the Rutbat al-ḥakīm of Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī (written in 339-342/950-953) and some of its main sources, such as the corpus of texts attributed to Jābir b. Ḥayyān, Ibn Waḥshiyya's Filāḥa Nabaṭiyya, the Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ and the Risāla Jāmiʿa."

By Godefroid de Callatay and Moureau Sébastien

https://www.academia.edu/77638705/In_Cod...ON_ALCHEMY

by Lutfallah Gari

"Alchemists were obliged from the earliest times to keep their esoteric knowledge secret. They used innumerable “pseudonyms” (Decknamen in German), not only for processes but also for the matters and elixirs. The same matter was often indicated with dozens of different names. Conversely, one and the same name was used to designate different matters. The editors of these texts need to understand, and explain, the words used by the alchemists for describing the substances that are mentioned in their operations. The first endeavors to solve this lexical problem were undertaken by the Arabs themselves: they composed glossaries or added to bigger theoretical works lists in which the meaning of the pseudonyms was explained."

https://www.academia.edu/124083210/Medie...erminology

"Abstract: Although al-Jildakī is one of the most important Arabic alchemists in history, he is still a shadowy, mysterious figure as are most of the Arabic alchemists. Fortunately, modern scholarly research has shown increasing interest in uncovering the mysteries surrounding the life of this celebrated alchemist. In this contribution, we aim to shed light on certain aspects of the enigmatic aura surrounding al-Jildakī, particularly regarding the geographical scope of his scientific activity, his places of residence, discussing whether he is Egyptian by origin or not. The second part of this paper will concern his opus magnum and maybe his latest work al-Miṣbāḥ fī asrār ʿilm al-miftāḥ ("The lamp, on the secrets of the science of the key"), in which al-Jildakī has collected all of his knowledge in alchemy, his important concepts, principles and views. Al-Miṣbāḥ is considered a summary of his previous books. The discussion will clarify al-Miṣbāḥ's authenticity, correct title, and whether al-Jildakī wrote the book in two parts as he mentions in the preface, which consequently may give a hint about al-Jildakī's deathdate."

https://www.academia.edu/129961485/The_1...25_109_131