"KIn this seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Han Xiangzi, best known as one of the Eight Immortals, seeks and achieves immortality and then devotes himself to converting his materialistic, politically ambitious Confucian uncleHan Yu (a real historical figure)to Daoism. Written in lively vernacular prose interspersed with poems and songs, the novel takes its readers over vast distances across China, to the heavens, and into the underworld. This is the first translation into any Western language. Yang Erzeng (fl. 15901602) was a writer and publisher from the city of Hangzhou in southeastern China. Philip Clart is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia."

https://www.hoepli.it/libro/the-story-of...87255.html

"I have read The First Alchemists – The Spiritual & Practical Origins of the Noble and Holy Art by Tobias Churton. A while back, I read and reviewed The Hermetic Tradition by Julius Evola. I got intrigued by the subject and thus thought this book would make for good further reading. As the title of the book suggests, the author discusses the first alchemists – and the time and place of their origin story is Egypt during the first centuries AD."

https://thegoldenone.se/2023/10/23/the-f...s-churton/

"This course and retreat at Hawkwood Centre For Future Thinking in Gloucestershire introduces you to both the intriguing symbolism of Renaissance alchemical imagery and to making paintings or drawings in response to what the pictures, motifs and colours trigger in us as individuals. It invites the participants to actively engage with these ancient pictures and develop their own contemporary visuals."

https://www.mariusvonbrasch.co.uk/upcomi...od-college

Whitaker's Words is an easy-to-use online Latin to English dictionary which provides the sort of output you might expect from a good pocket dictionary. There is also a downloadable version for Windows.

https://latin-words.com/

https://mk270.github.io/whitakers-words/

A good general introduction to this topic.



https://www.joysine.com/chinese-alchemy/

"What mathematical mysteries did William Shakespeare encrypt within his legendary sonnets? Exploring the works of the Bard, polymath Robert Edward Grant deciphers the encoded alchemical knowledge connecting the European Renaissance with ancient Egypt…"


https://www.bitchute.com/video/aF1gVcGlf4ex/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Juncker

1) An Alchemist in his study

2) The Alchemist's Workshop

   

   

“I have seen that Endymion. Hyperion, and The Fall of Hyperion, besides adhering to the individuation myth, can also be discussed in the context of the process of alchemy. Within these poems there are a number of significant alchemical parallels, which help us to understand their unity, which becomes manifest when it is seen that they progress according to the stages of the opus alchemicum. Alchemy is an untapped reservoir of truth about the human soul, containing seventeen centuries of study and speculation.”

The Alchemy of Art: A Study in the Evolution of the Creative Mind of John Keats
G. Brian Sullivan
University of Nebraska-Lincoln



https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewc...nglishdiss

The Divine Ark: Jane Lead’s Vision of the Second Noah’s Ark

Julie Hirst

"This article will examine how the seventeenth-century visionary, Jane Lead, imagined and represented purification, redemption and salvation in her visions of Noah’s Ark using alchemical imagery as a way of describing the processes leading to the illumination of the soul."

https://esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeVI/divineark.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_van_Ostade

1) Self-portrait of the artist in his studio

1) An Alchemist

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