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  The Jews and Alchemy: Notes for a Problematic Approach
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-17-2025, 08:15 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The article explores the historical relationship between Jewish communities and alchemy, highlighting the complexities of this interaction through various alchemical texts and historical documentation. It analyzes how Jewish figures have been portrayed in alchemical literature, emphasizing their contributions and the misconceptions surrounding their involvement in this secretive practice." (abstract generated by AI)

By Gabriele Ferrario

https://www.academia.edu/1285078/The_Jew...c_Approach

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  Alchemy & Bakhtin's Philosophy of the Act
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-17-2025, 08:12 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The paper refers to Bakhtin’s philosophy of the act and his theory of a fundamental split between two worlds: the domain of culture and life itself, which he describes as a “split between the content or sense of a given act/activity and the historical actuality of its being, the actual and once-occurrent experiencing of it”50. His theory is related to the realm beyond Bakhtin’s interests – to the research on the alchemists’ activities and their ideals. The aim of the paper is to answer the question whether the alchemists’ thought and efforts do correspond with the Bakhtin’s theory and may be perceived as referring to the unity of sense or meaning of an act/activity and the historical actuality of its being – ipso facto the unity of culture and life."

By Anna Kłonkowska

https://www.academia.edu/21299537/Alchem...ife_Itself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakhtin

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  Alchemical Hypnosis: A Manual of Practical Technique
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-14-2025, 02:25 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

By David Quigley

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemical-Hypnos...1523648481

See also his Alchemical Hypnotherapy:

https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780979503306

More info:

https://www.alchemyinstitute.com/about-d...igley.html

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  The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes to Newton
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-14-2025, 02:09 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"The Alchemy Reader is a collection of primary source readings on alchemy and hermeticism, which offers readers an informed introduction and background to a complex field through the works of important ancient, medieval and early modern alchemical authors. The selections will provide the reader with a basic introduction to the field and its interdisciplinary links with science and medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature and the arts."

https://pyxlovewyf.com/book/2608104/026a...=recommend

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  Videos: Aromatic Medicine - Aroma/Soul Connection
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-14-2025, 02:01 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Interesting collection of videos including one on "Alchemical Wisdom on the Aroma/Soul Connection".

https://aromaticmedicineschool.com/video-library/

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  At Scribd: Syed Nomanul Haq on Geber
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-13-2025, 12:08 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Names, Natures & Things: The Alchemist Jabir (Geber) and his Book of Stones

https://fr.scribd.com/document/794804901...omanul-Haq

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  Full text: The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-13-2025, 11:37 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Some alchem;ical references, e.g. Zosimus.

Volume II of Ancient Magic and Divination (Brill)

https://cisneastro.com/wp-content/upload...mpress.pdf

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  Dissertatio medico chymica
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-13-2025, 11:31 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Medical Disputation on the Origin and Progress of Chemistry

Translated by Mitko Janeski

https://www.alchemy-texts.com/book/medic...sertation/

   

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  Alchemical imagery in political cartoons
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-13-2025, 11:27 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"We’re all familiar with the format of political cartoons: caricatures of political figures drawn in a way to criticize or satirize their policies and decisions. As the Science History Institute’s assistant museum collections manager, I’ve undertaken a complete inventory of the museum’s collections. While working on our fine art collection, I noticed that we have a number of political cartoons featuring chemical or alchemical imagery. Why, I wondered, is this such an oft-used motif?"

https://www.sciencehistory.org/collectio...-material/

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  Roger Bacon: The Mirror of Alchimy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-13-2025, 11:24 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"The Mirror of Alchimy is a short alchemical manual, known in Latin as Speculum Alchemiae. Translated in 1597, it was only the second alchemical text printed in the English language. Long ascribed to Roger Bacon (1214-1294), the work is more likely the product of an anonymous author who wrote between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries."

Wiki: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirror_of_Alchimy

Text at Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/mirrorofalch...1/mode/2up

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