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Another Beinecke article - Paul Ferguson - 05-20-2026
" In the 1940s, Mary Conover Mellon, the wife of philanthropist Paul Mellon, became fascinated with the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. Jung had spent decades arguing that the imagery of alchemy was not a failed chemistry but an early map of the unconscious mind, with its furnaces and dragons standing in for psychological transformations a patient might undergo in analysis. Mary read his work, met him in Switzerland, and started quietly buying alchemical books to support that research."
https://beautyhealthpage.com/yale-beinecke-mellon-alchemy-occult-collection/