"In July 1936, economist John Maynard Keynes returned from Sotheby’s auction house in London with a chest full of unpublished hand-written papers, laboratory books, diagrams and over a million unpublished words by Sir Isaac Newton. Contrary to expectations, Newton’s hitherto unseen papers did not illustrate his musings on celestial mechanics, calculus, optics or mathematical theory, but his personal work on esoteric theology and his alchemical laboratory notes. While Isaac Newton was regarded a towering sentinel of the scientific method on a global platform, he was secretly a deeply mystical, magical and animistic thinker."

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/...ne-0010245

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"Alchemical texts often use elaborate extended allegories as a means of communicating key philosophical points, or to illustrate a particular alchemical process. In these allegorical texts a figure, with which the reader is supposed to identify, goes on an journey in search of wisdom or understanding of the mysteries of alchemy. There this figure meets various archetypal characters, kings, queens, various alchemical birds and animals, and witnesses a process of transformation. This parallels the use of series of symbolic illustrations in various alchemical books and manuscripts-these allegories are in essence the working out in text of similar alchemical ideas and processes as are found in the sequences of emblematic symbols."

https://www.academia.edu/35173958/Alchem...e_Fountain

by Alison Saunders.

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Combining revived interest in both the emblem and alchemy, this volume is the third in a series of works on emblem studies published by the French Department at the University of Glasgow. Its ten essays, divided among three major categories entitled, "A Theoretical Perspectives", "The English Alchemists", and "Continental Manifestations", stress inter disciplinarity as they explore the relationships between text, image, and alchemical practice. Broad in scope but detailed in its analyses, the compendium raises several intriguing questions about the correspondence between literature, art, and pseudo-science. Despite the diversity of its topics, the collection is often surprisingly unified in its discussion of authors, motifs, and themes. With the exception of some gaps in argumentation, Emblems and Alchemy makes a significant contribution not only to the field of emblematics, but to early modern studies.

https://www.academia.edu/71010793/Emblems_and_Alchemy

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emblems-alchemy...0852616805

"Alchemical images take many forms, from descriptive illustrations of apparatus to complex allegorical schemes that link practical operations to larger cosmological structures."

https://www.academia.edu/3709508/Depicti...cal_Cosmos

By Patricia Sauthoff

"At the heart of both yoga and alchemy (rasaśāstra/rasavāda) we find practices meant to change bodies. These disciplines offer a variety of ways in which one can counteract greying hair, eliminate wrinkles, prolong life, and cure disease. However, their approaches are often quite different, with yoga focusing on physical and mental practice and alchemy emphasizing the use of herbal, mineral, and metallic medicines.Both systems prioritize a sort of divine body, describing the attainment of enlightenment during life (jīvanmukti) or a perfected body (dehasiddhi). While both yoga and Indian alchemy persist today as part of the global wellness industry, for the purpose of this bibliography we will consider the premodern developments of these disciplines."

https://www.academia.edu/100060333/Alchemy_and_Yoga

Crucified upon Metals and Alphabets: Alchemical Iconography of the Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Treatises by Martin Sturtz

By Sergei Zotov

"This paper addresses the links between alchemy, mining and religion in the early modern alchemical iconography of the German mining theorist Martin Sturtz. He created a special version of the prayer Vaterunser (Our Father) for miners and metallurgists and used the images from Christian and alchemical iconography to demonstrate the history of the creation of metals and how they grow inside the Earth. In one of his images, the Saviour is crucified against the background of coloured strips or stripes, symbolizing the seven metals inside a sedimentary complex. In another miniature, the blood spilling from his wound gives rise to ore veins in which metals ripen. These and the other iconographical and textual examples from Sturtz's treatises show the attempt to connect the mining process with alchemical theory and Christian religion. This paper will shed light on the origins of this unusual alchemical imagery and its connection with other alchemical and theological works, especially those by Paul Lautensack."

https://www.academia.edu/129271497/Cruci...tin_Sturtz

"Alchemy, as an art, was expressed through both written and pictorial means, with the latter often serving as allegorical representations. While some alchemical texts, such as those by Eirenæus Philalethes and Alexander Seton, are considered authoritative, they are not illustrated. The alchemical laboratory, as depicted by Michael Maier, illustrates the physical work of alchemy, emphasizing the importance of the three alchemical principles and the pursuit of the Stone of the Philosophers. This text delves into the symbolism of spiritual alchemy, using illustrations from various sources. It explores the process of spiritual transformation, likening it to the alchemical magnum opus, and how it involves the union of body, soul, and spirit. The text concludes by suggesting that spiritual alchemy is akin to the Yoga process, leading to the attainment of absolute desire and Divine Union."

https://www.academia.edu/129969819/The_P...ward_Waite

By George MacDonald Ross

"The paper examines the interplay between occultism and philosophy during the seventeenth century, challenging the perception that key philosophical figures distanced themselves from occult thought."

https://www.academia.edu/926001/Occultis...th_century

The meaning of the symbols in alchemic literature from the beginning of the XVII century

By Raimon Arola

"In this way, the word symbol became a very appropriate way of expressing its authors’ intentions: that of joining science with the spiritual life in its search for the renewal of Christianity."

https://www.academia.edu/1054166/The_mea...II_century

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