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Alchemical Gold: the Sufis, Shakespeare, and Keats - Paul Ferguson - 12-27-2025
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/alchemical-gold-the-sufis-shakespeare-and-keats/