"Following the path set by renowned alchemist Giuliano Kremmerz, Marco Daffi was one of the most interesting and controversial protagonists of magical Hermeticism in the 20th century, a master initiate who illuminated the more esoteric aspects of Hermetic practice in terms of initiation, gnosis, eros, divination, and consciousness. In this comprehensive look at the man born Baron Ricciardo Ricciardelli yet better known by his spiritual name Marco Daffi, historian and researcher David Pantano presents Daffi’s writings on some of the most unique and unusual topics within alchemical Hermeticism, available for the first time in English. Through his visionary writings, Daffi elucidates firsthand accounts of “initiatory experience” and the inner visions of Hermetic practices, supported by relevant experiential praxis. Readers are able to enter Daffi’s “Inner Laboratory” and experience his pioneering investigations into the numinal or interdimensional aspects of consciousness. Daffi details the descensus ad inferno he took into the dark cavernous recesses of past-life regression for purposes of Hermetic healing. His writings also reveal his practical applications of oracular-modes of consciousness, especially by exercising his considerable mediumistic capabilities."

https://www.innertraditions.com/alchemical-hermeticism

"The new chemical light 16th century alchemical manuscript has been attributed to a few possible alchemist authors such as Michael Sendivogius and Michael Maier. Could they be the same person? Alchemists were often said to change their names to hide their true age and to protect themselves from the masses who would pursue their secrets. This audio book is an excerpt from the new chemical light and is about the natural generation of stones compared to the alchemical generation of stones by alchemists. alchemy manuscripts such as this were often written in a secret code meant only for other alchemists to understand and not the general masses."

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

"In Psychology of the Unconscious Jung announced his hypothesis of the collective unconscious and the way it is represented in the stories and symbolism of myths and legends. Later, he uncovered this in the texts of the alchemists, especially the Rosarium Philosophorum, which he believed allegorised the archetype of relationship and new birth that Jung referred to as the mysterium coniunctionis. He recognised the same symbolic meaning in the building of his home ‘the tower’ at Bollingen, which represented his own individuation and new birth. Similarly group process might evoke or be influenced by archetypes, which are then manifested in socio-cultural phenomena one expression of which is architectural design. This article argues that such archetypal expression can be discerned in the design and landscaping of Canary Wharf in London."

Full text:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...arf_London

Alchemical Dream - The Rebirth Of The Great Work

A video about Frederick I Elector Palatine


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1owXhT2yAo

1869 essay by Alexander Wilder.

Originally published February 10, 1869, in Transactions of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York for the year 1868, and also in 1869 by Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, Albany, N.Y. 

A Sketch of the Doctrines and Principal Teachers of the Eclectic or Alexandrian School; also An Outline of the Interior Doctrines of the Alchemists of the Middle Ages.


https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/wil...er-npa.htm

"After years, RICCARDO VILLANOVA MRA returns to talk about ALCHEMY in his CLEAR AND COMPLETE way, opening the archives of the [Ammonium] Order and donating the secret knowledge for this era. This is a teaching received from the Master MRA in 3 days of continuous practice in the year 1987 in a location in Switzerland, in the main headquarters of the Order. It was a teaching reserved for higher grades, but given the current times and the acceleration of events, MRA has decided to communicate it now while it was scheduled in about 4 years."

Available on-line. 29-31.03.2024.

Short video on Sublimation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mHgRrfxIDw

" First in a series of three essays devoted to works executed by Caravaggio when he was at the court of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte: in this contribution, a reading of the famous mural (Caravaggio's only one) of the Casino dell'Aurora, which reflects the cardinal's alchemical interests. "

https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/wor...ell-aurora

"Selfica devices are handmade objects made up of metals and alchemical liquids and claim to be used for physical, emotional and spiritual healing, and communicating with beings in the wider universe. As well as talking to aliens, the Damanhurians claim to have cracked the secret of time travel and say they first did so in 1997."


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news...y-32178467

"A Second View of Practical Chemistry"


   

"John Maynard Keynes famously cast Isaac Newton not as the first scientist of the age of reason, but the last of the magicians. How should we interpret the million words he wrote, in secret, on alchemy? What should we make of Newton's heretical religious views? William Newman talks us through the best books for a better understanding of the complex man who was one of the greatest physicists of all time."

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/isaac-n...am-newman/