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  Alchemist Art - Created With AI
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-21-2026, 10:23 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"Discover a mesmerizing collection of Alchemist Art generated by AI. Explore intricate designs and mystical scenes, and then create your own unique alchemical masterpieces on NightCafe."

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/gallery/alchemist-art

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  Video series: The Alchemical Understanding
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-21-2026, 10:20 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

The Green Stone completing Jung's work:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...EAKcGnWhVI

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  Sun and Moon jousting c. 1760
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-21-2026, 09:59 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - Replies (1)

From an alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium, c. 1760.

"Very very interesting scene...Which proves that (at least some) people in 1760 knew the real meaning of griffin: complex animal calendar marker for autumn... Let me explain why I think so."

https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/...ndium.html

   

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  The Chakras and the Alchemical Stages
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-21-2026, 09:43 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Chakras and alchemy map precisely. Root chakra (survival, grounding) = Nigredo (blackening, dissolution, ego death). Heart chakra (love, integration) = Citrinitas (yellowing, illumination, heart opening). Crown chakra (transcendence, unity) = Rubedo (reddening, completion, philosopher's stone). Eastern energy system and Western material transformation describe the same process: hierarchical ascent from base to transcendent, from matter to spirit, from ego to Self. Both are seven-stage models because seven is optimal granularity for modeling complete transformation. The convergence validates both: different cultures, same truth."

https://mysticryst.com/blogs/the-mystic-...formations

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  Alchemy and Women's Medical Expertise
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-16-2026, 10:15 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Kayla Perez.

In the Afro-Mediterranean world, alchemy served as a vessel for women's medical expertise amidst a shifting landscape of medical authority. The procedural grammar found in alchemical manuscripts underscores the significance of embodied practices in reproductive health.

"Abstract: This working paper reframes the interpretive difficulty surrounding medieval and early modern alchemical imagery not as obscurity to be decoded, but as displaced procedural knowledge. Examining alchemical manuscripts alongside women’s medical practice in the fourteenth–sixteenth-century Afro-Mediterranean world, it demonstrates that alchemical imagery preserves a procedural grammar organized around sequence, containment, regulated heat, rest, and regeneration. Verbatim evidence from the Trotula corpus and documentary material from the Cairo Geniza shows that this grammar governed household reproductive medicine transmitted through embodied practice rather than discursive text. As medical authority became increasingly institutionalized, this knowledge was reclassified and displaced from legitimate medicine while surviving within alchemy under new philosophical interpretations. The paper proposes a methodological shift from symbolic decoding to procedural analysis, restoring women’s medical labor to the history of early scientific knowledge."


https://www.academia.edu/161247769/Alche..._Centuries

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  WB Yeats's theories of spirituality
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-16-2026, 10:11 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Yeats's Theories on Spirituality in "Magic," "Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places," Per Amica Silentia Lunae, and A Vision

by SueJean Joe

2021, Yeats Journal of Korea 


Abstract: This essay aims to look into Yeats's theories on spirituality in his four essays: "Magic," "Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places," Per Amica Silentia Lunae, and A Vision. Before moving on to the main discussion, this article briefly examines the several factors that helped shaped Yeats's thoughts on spirituality, not least of which was his exposure to folklore and his father's repudiation of established religions. Such childhood influences led Yeats to join first the Theosophical Society and then the Golden Dawn in search of alternative forms of spirituality. It also contributes to Yeats's unique theories on spirituality that is based on Irish traditions such as Irish folklore and legends. Then, this essay discusses Yeats's prose writings, starting from his 1901 essay, "Magic" to A Vision, which can be considered as the culmination of his lifelong search for spirituality in order to talk about how Yeats tried to formulate his thoughts on spirituality over time.

https://www.academia.edu/49502630/Yeatss...d_A_Vision

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  Alchemy, Jung and the Dark Night of the Soul
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-16-2026, 10:08 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Of Gods and Stones: Alchemy, Jung, and The Dark Night of St. John of the Cross

By David Odorisio

"The journey from nigredo to rubedo parallels spiritual progression in John of the Cross' teachings. This exploration ultimately highlights how difficult experiences can lead to transformative self and god-images in one’s spiritual path."


https://www.academia.edu/12338674/Of_God..._the_Cross

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  Jung and von Franz on Gerard Dorn
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-13-2026, 12:09 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

The Star in Man: C. G. Jung and Marie Louise von Franz on the Alchemical Philosophy of Gerard Dorn

By Thomas Willard

https://www.academia.edu/53289838/The_St...erard_Dorn

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  The Alchemical Origins of Modern Experimentation
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-13-2026, 12:05 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Alchemy and Modern Science

by Finn Michael Brown


The techniques and instruments developed by alchemists were crucial for early chemical experimentation. The glassware and methodologies pioneered during the Renaissance still underpin laboratory practices.

https://www.academia.edu/38078108/Alchem...rn_Science

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  Rubedo Press
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-13-2026, 11:55 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Classical and contemporary works animated by the sophianic fire.

https://rubedo.press/publications

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