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  The Alchemy of Stones
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-07-2025, 07:34 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"In this full-color guide to co-creative alchemy with crystals and stones for personal and planetary healing, Robert Simmons provides techniques and meditative practices with specific stones to go with each stage of the alchemical transformation process. Also includes an illustrated dictionary summarizing the spiritual qualities of more than 375 minerals, crystals, and gemstones."

https://www.innertraditions.com/books/th...-of-stones

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  Video: The Ancient Emerald Tablet
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-07-2025, 07:28 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Uncover the profound wisdom hidden within the ancient Emerald Tablet, a mysterious text said to hold the secrets of alchemy, consciousness, and the nature of reality itself. In this video, we dive deep into the esoteric teachings of this ancient artifact, exploring how it reveals the mysteries of life, death, and spiritual transformation. Could the Emerald Tablet hold the key to understanding the universe and our place within it? Join us as we break down the alchemical principles, metaphysical insights, and the legendary phrase *"As Above, So Below"*—a message that echoes through time, pointing to the connection between the physical and spiritual realms."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wgPrxSBtNk

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  The Strange Death of James Price
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-07-2025, 07:25 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"In the world of grand promises and bold claims, the line between confidence and deception can blur all too easily. What begins as ambition can quickly spiral into illusion, and the pressure to maintain appearances grows heavier with every passing moment. In 1783, James Price, a chemist and self-proclaimed alchemist, found himself in such a predicament. Trapped in a web of his own making, he chose a tragic end over the humiliation of exposure."

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2025/01/th...e.html?m=1

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  Video: Hindu Alchemy & Polymer Synthesis
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-07-2025, 07:20 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Can Hindu Alchemical Ideas Be Applied to Modern Polymer Synthesis? In this captivating video, we delve into the fascinating world of Hindu alchemy and its philosophical underpinnings. We will explore the ancient texts that outline the principles of transformation and perfection within this spiritual practice."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlOj7xt7Hc

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  Thesis: Towards Hermeticist Grammars of Music
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-07-2025, 07:14 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Johann Friedrich Wolfgang Hasler 

Towards Hermeticist Grammars of Music: A Proposal for Systems of Composition Based on the Principles of the Hermetic Tradition, with Musical Demonstrations

Submitted as fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music (PhD in Music) University of Newcastle upon Tyne School of Arts and Cultures November 2011

"This thesis is a composer‟s manual on how to select and appropriately use musical materials in accordance with some of the parameters of the Hermetic Tradition."

https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/bitstream...r%2011.pdf

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  An Alchemical Epistle attributed to Ḫālid b. Yazīd
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-07-2025, 07:03 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

The Four Signs of the Art: Edition and Translation of an Alchemical Epistle Attributed to Ḫālid b. Yazīd and its Latin Translation
Marion Dapsens, Sébastien Moureau
Arabica, T. 68, Fasc. 5/6, Special Issue: Occult Sciences and the Transmission of Knowledge in al-Andalus: A Collection of Essays from the PhilAnd Project (2021), pp. 557-627 (71 pages)


https://www.jstor.org/stable/27227297

This is behind a paywall but JSTOR is relatively inexpensive and easy to register with.

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  Freemasonry: Spiritual Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-07-2025, 02:52 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

By Christopher Earnshaw.

A reviewer writes: "As a Freemason and a Chemist, the history and significance of Alchemy has long been a personal fascination. I believe I have read extensively on the topic and consider myself to be well informed. However, I wish this book had been available when I started my research. It could have saved me a lot of time and guided me on what was a meandering path without it. This text provides a succinct collection of pertinent information about Alchemy as it relates to Freemasonry."


https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781086885415...inkCode=qs

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  Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-06-2025, 10:37 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

By Gavin Ashenden.

"He was a close friend of T. S. Eliot, deeply admired by C. S. Lewis, inspirational for W. H. Auden in his journey to faith, and a literary sparring partner for J. R. R. Tolkien. Yet half a century after his death, much of Charles Williams’s life and work remains an enigma. The questions that arose from his immersion in Rosicrucian and hermetic culture and ideology―central to understanding Williams’s thought and art remain provocatively unexplored. For a decade of his early adulthood, Williams was a member of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, a form of neo-Rosicrucianism. There is widespread confusion about its nature, which is to be expected given that this was a semisecret society. Though Williams left his formal association with it behind, it enriched and informed his imaginative world with a hermetic myth that expressed itself in an underlying ideology and metaphysics."

https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Williams-...0873387813

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  Anna Pavord: Searching for Order
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-04-2025, 01:53 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"Searching for Order: The history of the alchemists, herbalists and philosophers who unlocked the secrets of the plant world."

"Searching for Order traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. Redefining man's relationship with nature was an important feature of the Renaissance. But in a world full of plagues and poisons, there was also a practical need to name and recognise different plants: most medicines were made from plant extracts."

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/searching-...747585299/

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  Uranium pigment in tilework
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-04-2025, 01:44 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"In what may be the first-ever use of uranium in Iran, yellow pigment created from uranium oxide ("(oksid-e uran") was used frequently in Qajar tilework. The oxide was imported from Europe and sold to artisans by alchemists ("meshshaq"). The pigment fluoresces under UV light."

Paper here:

‘WE MUST SEND YOU A SAMPLE’—A PERSIAN–EUROPEAN DIALOGUE: INSIGHTS INTO LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY BASED ON CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF TILES FROM THE ETTEHADIEH HOUSE COMPLEX, TEHRAN, IRAN"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/p....2020.0015


Hat-tip: Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

https://x.com/yarbatman/status/1875281873339056524


   

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