"This article investigates how the Letter from Isis to Horus (first-fourth century CE) explores the literary potentialities allowed by the complex cultural backdrop one finds in late antique Egypt. By looking into how this example of alchemical writing both engages with and departs from shared motifs of Hermetism, the Greco-Egyptian magical papyri, and 1 Enoch, it demonstrates how the Letter uses literary artifice in a way that gives alchemical knowledge a specific and distinct voice. It also argues that the cultural mixture of Hermetism, magic, and Scripture represented in the Letter reflects the alchemical procedure of mixing frequently mentioned in the text."

https://www.academia.edu/113976310/In_th...s_to_Horus

In French.


This study analyzes the principal features of alchemical theory in general, with a particular focus on Jābir Ibn Ḥayyān’s contributions. It explores the Aristotelian,
Stoic, and Neoplatonic foundations of his thought, culminating in the so-called “Theory of Balances”—a framework that seeks to reduce all natural phenomena
and scientific knowledge, including cosmology, physics, and alchemy, to laws of quantity and measurement. In the Middle Ages, this theory served as a foundation
for establishing a quantitative system of natural science. Jābir translated the four degrees of intensity of the elementary qualities—borrowed from Greek medicine—
into characteristic numerical series. This study examines the connections between these speculations and Plato’s Timaeus, as well as Pythagorean arithmology, with
particular attention to the reucurring significance of the number 17 in Geber's thought.


https://jop.ut.ac.ir/article_105121_3cbf...06f681.pdf

Elder Futhark Arcanum: An Intuitive Interpretation of Rune Meanings Paperback – February 21, 2021
by All Natural Spirit (Author)

"Are you an open-minded spiritual practitioner? A seeker of truth and knowledge? Someone who is willing to discuss alternate perspectives? Then this book is for you. Here within is my attempt at finding the truth behind the purpose and origin of the Elder Futhark as well as intuitively deciphering their somewhat obscure meanings."


https://www.amazon.com/Elder-Futhark-Arc...B08WZGS4PY

(Mentioned on this forum because it contains additional western alchemical and astronomical associations for each rune.)

"Discover the hidden side of Isaac Newton, the scientific genius behind gravity and calculus, who spent decades secretly obsessed with alchemy. Far from being a mere pseudoscience detour, Newton’s alchemical pursuits involved intense laboratory experiments, decoding ancient texts, and a quest for the philosopher’s stone and divine secrets in matter. Influenced by mysterious figures like Eirenaeus Philalethes, he wrote over a million words on transmutation and metallic “growth.” This forgotten passion shaped his revolutionary ideas on forces and light, revealing Newton not just as the first modern scientist, but the last great magician."

https://13oclockpodcast.wordpress.com/20...n-alchemy/

Erica Lagalisse
Occult Features of Anarchism
With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples


"“Erica Lagalisse’s Occult Features of Anarchism is a wonderful and learned provocation. Taking the concept of modern politics as a form of theology and magical ritual, she traces some aspects of the origins of socialist and anarchist politics and performance to the Hermetic tradition that influenced the Radical Enlightenment and its originators, in, for example, the work of Spinoza. But she also argues that this “magical” or Hermetic tradition rested on a masculinist coup against women’s knowledge, especially in the transformation of women healers into malevolent witches."

https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/e...chism-book

Theories of Categories in Early Mediaeval Chinese Alchemy
Author(s): Ho Ping-Yü and Joseph Needham
Source:
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes , Jul. - Dec., 1959, Vol. 22, No.
3/4 (Jul. - Dec., 1959), pp. 173-210
Published by: The Warburg Institute


https://rexresearch1.com/AlchemyArchives...lchemy.pdf

The Unknown Instruments Orchestra/ Hermes Zygott

Hermes Zygott (born 1965, Leningrad) is a Russian-born, multidisciplinary avant-garde artist, musician, composer, and performer known for blending archaic instruments, electronic soundscapes, and visual art. Working in performance and conceptual art, Zygott's work often explores the "transformation of sound into the music of the spheres

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-alc...1855623049

"Alchemical Botany is my twelfth annual art calendar — a project that continues a personal tradition I began in 2011: creating one fully illustrated calendar each year, dedicated to a single theme and conceived as a complete visual narrative. This calendar explores botany through the lens of alchemy — not as a literal historical reconstruction, but as a poetic system of transformation, observation, and meaning. Each month represents a stage in a cyclical process, where plants, vessels, and organic forms become metaphors for growth, decay, fermentation, separation, and renewal."

https://www.behance.net/gallery/24105990...i590469126

By Daniel Thomas Dyer, from (God willing) his forthcoming book, The Mystic Keats

"Alchemy has long been associated with nearly all forms of mystical monotheism—true adherents being more concerned with the transmutation of the base self rather than base metal. Nowhere is this more evident than in Sufi literature, in which alchemy is nothing other than an increasingly intimate and transformative relationship with God, starting with the outer religion (the ‘Law’), progressing to the esoteric mysteries (the ‘Path’), and arriving at the spiritual gold (the ‘Truth’)"

https://rumiscircle.com/2025/08/13/alche...and-keats/

"In medieval laboratories. Behind locked doors. Surrounded by bubbling alembics and glowing furnaces. Men and women worked. Not to make gold. Though that was the claim. But to transform themselves. Transmute consciousness. Perfect the soul. This was alchemy. The Royal Art. The Great Work. Magnum Opus. To the uninitiated it seemed to be about metals. Turning lead into gold. Creating the Philosopher's Stone. Finding the Elixir of Life. But the true alchemists knew the outer work was symbol. The real work was inner. The metals represented stages of consciousness. The laboratory was the human body and soul. The fire was spiritual practice. The goal was not material wealth but divine perfection. Union with God. Immortality of spirit. Tonight, you will learn the complete alchemical process. The seven stages of transformation. The secret of the Philosopher's Stone. The meaning of solve et coagula. How to perform the Great Work. Not in a laboratory. But in your consciousness. In your life. In your soul. This is ancient wisdom dressed in chemical symbolism. Preserved through persecution. Available now to those ready to die, to be purified, to be reborn as gold."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PXut2z6WvE