THE MOST CELEBRATED ILLUSTRATED WORK OF ALCHEMY, Maier's Atalanta Fugiens uses the classic myth of Atalanta as a basis for depicting the processes and stages of making the philosopher's stone.
"Ancient Origin of Bilyar Alchemy Workshop Proven by Kazan University's Researchers... Dr. Valiulina says that the alchemy workshop is the only one in Russia and the earliest known in Europe."
"Medieval Workshop of an Alchemist, Jeweller and Glassmaker in Bilyar... In the centre of Bilyar, the pre-Mongolian capital of Volga Bulgaria, a team of researchers from Kazan University (Head – S. I. Valiulina) excavated and investigated an alchemy workshop."
"In the heart of modern Paris is an old house – a house that has been hidden for almost two hundred years. The only clue to its secrets lies in a nineteenth-century diary. When research student Ellie opens the door, she will discover not just an ancient mystery, but a tale of magic, betrayal – and immortal love, spanning the centuries."
"The Alchemical Visions Tarot is a super cool deck that I want to explore in more detail for sure. It is such a large deck, it feels like the perfect study material."
"Alchemical Manuscripts, Early Printed Books, and Other Materials"
Part of the RGME @ Conferences collection
Co-sponsored with the Societas Magica, this Session at 2024 ICMS addresses challenges of alchemical texts, their materials, and their uses.
"By the later Middle Ages, alchemy was a venerable tradition that had generate hundreds of texts that ranged from the practical to the mystical or aesthetic. Their forms ranged from laboratory notebooks or manuals, through alternate interpretations of practical manuals written in code, to lavishly illustrated manuscripts of both these types. This session serves partly to act as a spring-board for the project to produce a critical edition of alchemical texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. Also under consideration are studies of alchemical allegories and symbolism where text and image interact."
"MYSTERIUM MAGNUM. Illustrated alchemical manuscript of Rosicrucian origin on the "Mysterium Magnum Studium Universale," folio (335 x 220 mm), 18 leaves: 2 pp half-title sheet, "Theosophia F.R.R.R. Ros. Cruc."; 17 pp hand-colored illustrated text, "Mysterium Magnum"; 7 pp "Exlicatio" with hand-colored illustration in text, text in German, with Latin, 18th-century. Loose, loss to margins of leaves, sometimes affecting text, repairs filled-in. Housed in a custom cloth folding chemise, and case. Provenance: "Budafalvi Vermes Lorant" (stamped to first and last leaf)."
"The Gospels can be understood and interpreted in the light of alchemical science. On the face of it, they are simply giving an account of the life of one man, Jesus, born two thousand years ago in Palestine, but while they recount the different stages of his life, from birth to death and resurrection, they are in fact also describing alchemical processes. In spite of being an object of condemnation by the clergy, since the Middle Ages alchemy has profundly permeated Christian mysticism and esotericism. And if you study the sculptures both on the outside and inside of cathedrals such as the Notre-Dame in Paris or the Notre-Dame in Chartres, you will discover that the builders of these cathedrals possessed alchemical knowledge, to which architecture and sculpture bear ample witness."
"Astrology and alchemy are cosmologies, and where astrology provides a heavenly view of the imaginal cosmos of the soul, alchemy presents us with a micro-cosmos. Like astrology, alchemy connects us to the gods, but in an earth-focused, substantive way. As the art of elemental transformation, alchemy is rooted in the natural world of fire, earth, air, and water. Meditating on the elements as psychological qualities helps deepen our understanding of these symbols. This lecture draws on alchemical images and archetypal psychology to demonstrate how alchemical elements form a micro-cosmology of the soul in astrology."
