By Timothy Hogan, author of https://www.amazon.com/Alchemical-Keys-M...1435704401


https://yandex.ru/video/preview/8635327578182405744

I found this image on Pinterest. It looks as if someone has superimposed alchemical terminology on a Vauban fortifications diagram. I do not know the origin of this image.        

'With the social and economic changes that occurred in the centuries following the Black Death, the alchemists of Central Europe became increasingly professionalized even contracted experts in the fields of medicine and mining.  These "Entrepreneurial Alchemists" stood at the crossroads of the medieval world and modern capitalism, the state, industrial mining and heavy industry.'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAGwEKA3C2A

'The notion of fire/light/heat/energy is recognized as an integrating element in the pathway of ordering matter and society, and its historical aspects are thoroughly reviewed. Fire is argued to be a philosophical archetype and its role in the early concept of four elements is discussed. The Indian,Arabic and Greek historical bases are mentioned. Alchemy is briefly reviewed as a source of the wider adoption of fire. The era of renaissance and the new age are also included. The message of fire/heat is nowadays focused on the progress of civilization, with the assumption of engines as in-formation transducers based on the conscious exploitation of fire. The role of chaos is emphasized.Overall, a condensed but consistent view is given of the various concepts that emerged during the historical progress of the understanding of heat (noting 61 references).'


https://www.academia.edu/60647391/The_fi...millennium

"For the past three years, our magnificent Alchemy Exhibit has been a popular display at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. We are now ready to begin the construction of its permanent home. The Rosicrucian Alchemy Museum will offer an interactive introduction to the fascinating history of Alchemy (with its origins in Egypt), as well as hands-on demonstrations involving the seven steps of the alchemical process, lab workstations for up to twelve students, and a meditation chamber."


https://www.rosicrucianpark.org/alchemy-museum

The project examines the histories of yoga, ayurveda and rasaśāstra (Indian alchemy and iatrochemistry) from the tenth century to the present, focussing on the disciplines' health, rejuvenation and longevity practices. The goals of the project are to reveal the entanglements of these historical traditions, and to trace the trajectories of their evolution as components of today's global healthcare and personal development industries.

http://ayuryog.org/index.php

Another 'alchemical' château.

The seat of Antoine Chapelle (ca 1530-1611), 1st Comte de Jumilhac et Courbefy.

Video in French with English subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIbk8LX8MEg


   

A castle in the Lot with an "alchemy room".

Issue 131 of the la Revue Internationale de Sagesse et philosophie hermétiques LIBER MIRABILIS is devoted to the alchemical symbolism at the Château de Cénevières.

https://www.liber-mirabilis.com/l-alchim...41143.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C41pgCX3ms

   

Après plusieurs années d’importants travaux de rénovation menés par la municipalité de Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, vous pourrez redécouvrir ces deux lieux emblématiques du Lot désormais reliés par une passerelle. La célébration de cette ouverture sera accompagnée d’une exposition qui mettra en lumière les liens étroits entre surréalisme et alchimie du 21 mai au 30 octobre (interruption prévue du 26 août au 18 septembre dans le cadre du festival Outsider Art)

MT: After several years of major renovation work carried out by the municipality of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, you will be able to rediscover these two emblematic places in the Lot, now linked by a footbridge. The celebration of this opening will be accompanied by an exhibition that will highlight the close links between surrealism and alchemy from 21 May to 30 October (interrupted from 26 August to 18 September as part of the Outsider Art festival).

https://www.ladepeche.fr/2023/05/14/surr...195129.php

David Chaim Smith was born in 1964 in Queens, New York. His early career was as a visual artist throughout the 1980s. In 1990 he began an immersion into the root sources of Alchemy and the Hermetic and Hebrew traditions of the Kabbalah. In 1996 he abandoned visual art for a total dedication to spiritual practice, from which came a unique blend of practical mysticism and creative innovation. This blend coalesced while working with an obscure thirteenth-century text called The Fountain of Wisdom, which he mapped out diagrammatically in notebooks during his ten-year hiatus from visual art. The resulting symbol vocabulary served as the basis for his 2006 return to art, generating the content for several books.

With video interview.

https://parallax-media.eu/andrew-sweeny/...tical-view

Fountain of Wisdom video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOowlrOA3sI