"This is a practiced based enquiry that concerns itself with the interpretation of the ideas of
alchemy through the creation of a range of contemporary jewellery pieces. This study consists
of both practice and theory, of which this thesis is the theoretical component. 

The alchemical dream was centred around the transmutation of matter into gold, and this
remained a central goal in a field of study that spans centuries. Alchemists researched the
improvement of matter, and themselves, through formulating theories and applying this in
practice. However, the term, alchemy, is difficult to define. Alchemy can be interpreted in
several ways, such as pre chemistry, a philosophy of nature or an interpretation of analytical
psychology. This depends on the perspective from which it is viewed, be it positivistic,
postmodern or anthropological, making it a term that could be seen to have multiple meanings
or interpretations."


Thesis by Ronel Jordaan.

https://scholar.sun.ac.za/server/api/cor...8f/content

An Ancient Chinese Treatise on Alchemy Entitled Ts'an T'ung Ch'iAuthor(s): Lu-Chiang Wu, Tenney L. Davis, Wei Po-Yang
Source: Isis, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Oct., 1932), pp. 210-289
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society


At Scribd:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/186253068/An-...on-Alchemy

Alchemy and the Mendicant Orders of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Andrew Campbell,Lorenza Gianfrancesco &Neil Tarrant


https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....18.1512778

"An Alchemical Mass - Processus sub forma missae - narration with Gregorian chants - Alchemy text. This is an interesting alchemical text, by Melchior Cibinensis, in which an alchemical process is pictured in the form of the Mass. Melchior Cibinensis was a Hungarian alchemical writer active in the first part of the 16th century. He is known for the Processus sub forma missae, an alchemical mass, now dated to around 1525; it was published in the Theatrum Chemicum of 1602, and formed part of a celebrated later collection Symbola Aureae Mensae from 1617 of Michael Maier."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d58_HUgap30

Played by Lutz Kirchhof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDuOzTakY-c

"Three pieces by Gurdjieff/De Hartmann (The Big Seven, Sayyid No.13, and The Struggle of the Magicians Excerpt No.1) set to a variety of mostly Hermetic-Alchemic images."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tUkni2EFm8

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptiveca...-the-roots

"The thesis explores the work of the contemporary German artist Anselm Kiefer. He has in the past, attracted criticism in Germany because of his insistence on confronting the subject of the Second World War but is as well known for his frequent allusion to Alchemy and the mystical Qabbālāh and Merkaba. The nature of these arcane arts or sciences is briefly examined as well as their relationship to modern science and also to ancient spiritual practices in addition to Jungian psychotherapy. Kiefer’s connection with the artists Peter Dreher and Joseph Beuys is also considered. The unusual scope and scale of his work and his use of unconventional materials seem to provoke questions about his image as a modern alchemist and also what it may mean to practice Art or indeed Alchemy in the twenty-first century."

By Edwin Cridland.

https://www.academia.edu/11468448/Anselm...emy_of_Art

By Natalie Goodison.

Some alchemical references. Full-text.

http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12054/1/13_Apri....pdf?DDD11+

By Khalturin and Rodichenkov.

"The Russian Brothers of the Golden and Rosy Cross mastered and developed various ideas and practices associated with magic, the Kabbalah, astrology, alchemy, hermeticism and theosophy. They tried to combine esoteric teachings from the West with the tradition of Christian mysticism, including orthodoxy, creating an unusual and interesting form of world view."

380 pages. Russian text.
https://www.deepl.com/translator


https://tinyurl.com/25dpx5r3

See Khalturin's other work, some of which is in English:
https://independent.academia.edu/YuryKhalturin

By Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal.

At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/document/37740326...sity-Press#