"There is no better evidence that in Byzantium, the occult was ordinary, than in the history of Byzantine alchemy: a way of thinking that shaped a thousand year empire. In Byzantium, working on matter meant working on souls, cities, and empires: imperial perfume labs, iatrosophika, musical theory, and Graeco-Egyptian riddles all operated within the same grammar of transformation. Metals, resins, letters, and musical notes are treated as different alphabets of one shared language, read both in the laboratory and in the sanctuary."

https://thyrathen.substack.com/p/a-reade...ne-alchemy

"An ageing Byzantine empress with flawless skin is an odd place to begin the history of “spiritual alchemy,” yet Zoe Porphyrogennētē’s perfume laboratory turns out to be a key to the Byzantine imagination. This essay invites readers into Zoe’s myrepseion, a perfume workshop glowing with braziers, rare resins from India and Egypt, and an icon that answers her questions by changing colour. Through Michael Psellos’ meticulous records, we watch a pious and politically sidelined woman build a private laboratory of scent, sacrifice, and divination in the heart of the imperial palace."

https://thyrathen.substack.com/p/spiritu...m-revealed

Originally attributed to "Qianzhenzi of Shaoshi Mountain" (Shaoshi Shan Qianzhenzi Shu), it was presumably compiled during the Song Dynasty.

Consisting of one scroll, it is included in the Methods Category of the The Dongzhen Section within the Taoist Canon (The Daozang). 


https://longhumountain.com/blogs/the-gre...collection

"In this episode, panelists discuss the profound connections between modern medicine, alchemy, and the fear of death. Topics include the spiritual consciousness required for true healing, the role of synergists in enhancing medicinal properties, and the importance of personal presence and intention in alchemical practices. The conversation also delves into practical applications and methodologies in making flower essences and working with plant materials, emphasizing the sacred nature of these processes. Join this enlightening discussion to understand how alchemy bridges the physical and spiritual realms for holistic healing."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59KEv-Yi2pQ

"Hardback edition limited to 1000 copies.

The second and latest instalment to the Alchemy Rising series by the contemporary English alchemist Heliophilus is dedicated to the Art of Water and the mystery of the alchemical menstruums. Within its lavishly illustrated pages, Heliophilus takes us on an alchemical quest that follows the Sacred Fountain of the alchemists, through the great monarchical tributaries of Nature nurtured and nourished by the very streams and rivers that flow through the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms. From these kingdoms the alchemists drew their liquors, menstruums, spirits and lixiviums, and by doing so were able to calcine, precipitate, dissolve and sublime their subjects; reduce them to their first matter; and separate their philosophical principles."


https://shop.watkinsbooks.com/products/a...730a&_ss=r

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"In July 1936, Sotheby’s sold the so-called Portsmouth Papers – an unordered corpus of manuscripts in Isaac Newton’s own hand, including his extensive alchemical writings, which until then had attracted little scholarly attention. John Maynard Keynes, an avid collector of art and manuscripts, bought them. He revered Newton, regarding him as the embodiment of the rationalisation of scholarly inquiry. It is likely that Keynes saw himself as standing in Newton’s tradition when, having studied mathematics and written his doctoral dissertation in that discipline, he attempted to place economics on a new foundation."

https://verfassungsblog.de/reflexive-epi...knowledge/

"We think Artificial Intelligence is a brand new frontier, but is it? Or is it just the latest chapter in a 1,000-year-old quest? In this deep dive, we uncover the startling parallels between modern AI development and Medieval Alchemy. From the "black box" problem to the promise of eternal life and the "perfected man," the ambitions of Silicon Valley's biggest CEOs like Sam Altman and Jensen Huang look identical to the dreams of medieval alchemists like Paracelsus and Roger Bacon."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb1RMuwbzhE

The Invisible Fire: Alchemy and the Birth of Newtonian Physics

Moreno Nourizadeh 

"A meticulous archival forensic investigation demonstrating that modern physics is the mathematical transfiguration of alchemy. Isaac Newton completed the Hermetic tradition by translating its operative ontology into the language of mathematics. Drawing on over a million words of Newton's chymical manuscripts, laboratory notebooks, and theological writings. Term-by-term correspondence between alchemical operations and Newtonian physics traced manuscript by manuscript. Force descends from active principle. Vis insita preserves vegetative spirit. The calculus enacts solve et coagula. Universal gravitation mathematises "as above, so below." Chapter 16 provides the Rosetta Stone: five documented correspondences from George Starkey's chymical theory through Newton's transitional vocabulary to the published Principia. The argument stands on Dobbs, Newman, and Westfall while taking the step they prepared. The foundational concepts of modern science, force, field, law, carry within them an operative structure inherited from the alchemical tradition. Understanding this genesis illuminates both what physics can do and what it cannot know about itself. 35 chapters. 165,000 words. 300 scholarly references. The furnace never went out. It was transformed into mathematics."

https://philarchive.org/rec/NOUTIF

Alchemy, Magic and Moralism in the Thought of Robert Boyle

Originally published in British Journal for the History of Science (ISSN 0007-
0874), 23 (1990), 387-410. Reprinted in Michael Hunter, Robert Boyle (1627-
91): Scrupulosity and Science (Woodbridge, 2000), pp. 93-118 (ch. 5).


https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/56618/1/56618.pdf