Samuel Aun Weor:

"The most ancient sciences in the world are Alchemy and Kabbalah, which are the practical, spiritual knowledge hidden in the depths of every great religion and mystical tradition."


https://tinyurl.com/37wjympn

"To better understand William Blake, it is necessary to understand his sources of inspiration. While much has been written about the influences of Paracelsus and Swedenborg on his work, a key influence on Blake was the self-taught sixteenth-century mystic Jacob Boehme. Blake and Boehme believed they had mystical experiences and visions that inspired their writing."


https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-William-B...B0D8WMBJ5N

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.R._Osborne

The Huntington Library is one of the world’s great independent research libraries, with some 12 million items spanning the 11th to the 21st century.

Alchemical, medical and technical compilation: manuscript, 15th-16th centuries:


https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/colle...4/id/1100/

"Neuromelanin, a little-known pigment in the brain, may be far more than a biological curiosity. Its unique properties suggest a quantum potential that could revolutionize how we understand consciousness, energy, and even reality itself. Combining insights from esoteric thinkers like Rudolf Steiner and the enigmatic alchemist Fulcanelli, this article explores how neuromelanin and the cultivation of a polymathic mind could free humanity from the parasitic structures of hegemony."

Needs a Medium account.


https://trina-94180.medium.com/neuromela...591416df8b

Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2023

"From prehistoric metal extraction to medieval alchemy to modern industry, chemistry has been central to our understanding and use of the physical world as well as to trade, warfare and medicine. In its turn, chemistry has been shaped by changing technologies, institutions and cultural beliefs. A Cultural History of Chemistry presents the first detailed and authoritative survey from antiquity to today, focusing on the West but integrating key developments in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Arabic-Islamic and Byzantine empires."


https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-h...474294928/

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-h...350552296/

"Set in late 15th-century Europe, Eclipse follows a young Dominican friar traveling from Paris to Florence in search of pre-Christian manuscripts. His encounter with an ascetic alchemist draws him into a quest for enlightenment, disrupted by disasters culminating in a solar eclipse. Written as a memoir, the novel blends historical detail, medieval alchemical lore, and philosophical depth, challenging rigid worldviews. Originally published in 1998, Eclipse earned Hirano, then a 23 year-old undergraduate, the Akutagawa Prize, establishing him as a literary prodigy."


https://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Novel-Kei...023121491X


Japanese edition:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%97%A5%E8%9D...101290407/

Excellent esoteric books publisher:

https://www.editionsbeya.com/


Including Thomas Vaughan complete works:

https://www.editionsbeya.com/collection/...-completes


   

"Christopher Warnock of Renaissance Astrology https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/ eventually discusses an actual dream he had about alchemy, but first has to give a lot of background about the medieval/Renaissance approach to both dreams and alchemy because the modern views are so different and we jump to them so automatically."


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



Please do visit the excellent https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/  

"The impact and influence that a religious tradition can have amongst culturally out-group populations can be quite unexpected and can even “boomerang” back home in equally unpredictable ways. This article explores one example of a Chinese religion’s unexpected cultural influence within the Western psychiatric community using religious Daoism and its appropriation by analytical psychologist Carl Jung. Although elements of religious Daoism, such as Daoist Internal Alchemy or the Yijing, integrated into a system of psychiatric practices, its influence was not straightforward. It will be argued that Jungian ideas such as active imagination, individuation, and synchronicity were directly influenced or inspired by Jung’s exposure to religious Daoism through Richard Wilhelm, Daoist texts, and his own adoption of Daoist Internal Alchemy techniques, an influence which would reverberate through both Western and Chinese popular culture."

Ming Chen.


https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/1/69

"The phoenix rising: Alchemical imagination in the works of Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne"


Author:
Randall Anthony Clack, University of Connecticut


"This study explores the use of the alchemical opus--the esoteric science which was concerned with the transmutation of base metals into gold--in the works of Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, three major authors from two distinct periods of pre-twentieth-century American literature who were influenced by hermetic (occult) philosophy and alchemy."


https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dis...AI9511413/