"The concept of the alchemical Magnum Opus, or Great Work, sits at the heart of alchemical tradition, embodying a series of processes aimed at achieving the ultimate goal of transmutation and enlightenment. It represents not just the practical endeavor to turn base metals into gold, but also a symbolic journey of personal & spiritual transformation. Historically, this esoteric practice was shrouded in mystery, with alchemists using cryptic symbols and allegories to veil their work in secrecy and to protect their wisdom from the uninitiated."

With embedded videos.

https://personality-type.com/alchemical-magnum-opus

Mfuniselwa Bhengu

"The Hermetic teachings are found in all lands and all religions, their appeal is universal. In early days there was a compilation of certain basic hermetic maxims, axioms, and precepts, which were passed from teacher to student, which is called the “Kyballion”."

https://www.msingiafrikamagazine.com/202...rinciples/

"On this day in Tudor history, 1st February 1552, in the reign of King Edward VI, alchemist Roger Cooke was born."


https://www.tudorsociety.com/february-1-...ger-cooke/

"The traditional herbal remedy utilises the active principles of medicinal plants, either in singular or combination. Electro-homoeopathy uses the favourable component of the active principle or medicinal properties, removing the toxic part, and using various scientific processes to prepare the remedies. To achieve faster recovery of the affected organ, Count Cesar Mattei invented a Complex herbal remedy by the Synergic mixing of the Spagyric essence of selected plants."

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http://www.informaticsjournals.com/index...view/34963

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The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky. Full text here:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57980


Illustrated article here:

https://www.mysticdoorway.com/the-magic-...hapter-ix/

"This essay explores circular compositions in medieval and early modern art. Delving into the intersection of religious, philosophical, and scientific ideas, the text examines the prevalence of circular depictions in medieval and early modern aesthetics. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, the author draws from primary Hermetic and Neoplatonic sources, providing four reasons for this preference."

Roger Ferrer-Ventosa

Full text.

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/2/171

...and a Boehmean-Alchemical Theophany

"In Jakob Boehme's theosophy, Sophia is the bride of the soul, and the mirror that God imagines in. She is the Mirror of Wisdom (Spiegel der Weisheit), her wisdom a pearl. Redolent of Ezekiel's vision, Boehme describes God as akin to a wheel or eye; Sophia is also an eye, the beautiful divine image and reflection. She resides within one's fiery soul of the heart, in one’s Gemüt. This Theophany also features imagery of the 7 source-spirits, the burning heart, and countless other alchemical symbols."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIOtmWL2iDY

"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical practice and education. Ordinary English people began to use numbers and quantification to explain abstract phenomena as diverse as the relativity of time, the probability of chance events, and the constitution of human populations. These changes reflected their participation in broader early modern European cultural and intellectual developments such as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. By the eighteenth century, English men and women still believed they lived in a world made by God, but it was also a world made--and made understandable--by numbers."


By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England
by Jessica Marie Otis (Author)


Not specifically alchemical but perhaps of interest.

https://www.amazon.com/Numbers-Numeracy-...0197608779

Just thought I’d put this on the record in case someone can shed some light. Pallax appears to be a gemstone, though whether real or not I do not know. I came across it in Gerard Dorn’s Artificium Supernaturale:



https://archive.org/details/hin-wel-all-...0/mode/2up




p. 243, line 5.









It also appears as an amusing entry in Chambers Cyclopaedia 1786, vol. 3 part 2




   








and in Erstning’s Nucleus:




http://tinyurl.com/y5z4v8r5




   






and in Pseudo-Llull:




https://archive.org/details/hin-wel-all-...p?q=Pallax