"We’re all familiar with the format of political cartoons: caricatures of political figures drawn in a way to criticize or satirize their policies and decisions. As the Science History Institute’s assistant museum collections manager, I’ve undertaken a complete inventory of the museum’s collections. While working on our fine art collection, I noticed that we have a number of political cartoons featuring chemical or alchemical imagery. Why, I wondered, is this such an oft-used motif?"

https://www.sciencehistory.org/collectio...-material/

"The Mirror of Alchimy is a short alchemical manual, known in Latin as Speculum Alchemiae. Translated in 1597, it was only the second alchemical text printed in the English language. Long ascribed to Roger Bacon (1214-1294), the work is more likely the product of an anonymous author who wrote between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries."

Wiki: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirror_of_Alchimy

Text at Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/mirrorofalch...1/mode/2up

This video introduces a Taoist secret breathwork practice known as the Lesser Mandala of Heaven, or Xiao Zhou Tian 小周天. Rooted in classic Taoist inner alchemy (內丹, neidan), it teaches you to unlock a hidden energy circuit that runs through your body, up the spinal Du 督 meridian and down the frontal Ren 任 meridian, forming a continuous loop of vitality:

https://benebellwen.com/2025/09/07/a-tao...nal-power/

This is Part II of what we started in Part I on the Lesser Mandala of Heaven. Part II covers the Greater Mandala of Heaven, and in doing so, provides an advanced introduction to Taoist alchemy:

https://benebellwen.com/2025/10/10/advan...t-alchemy/

"A magnificent edition of the Splendor Solis for all those interested in alchemy, magic and mysterious manuscripts. Popularly attributed to the legendary figure Salomon Trismosin, the Splendor Solis ('Splendour of the Sun') is the most beautiful alchemical manuscript ever made, with 22 fabulous illustrations rich in allegorical and mystical symbolism"

Leaf-through of:

https://rb.gy/9i06my

"Medieval alchemy was an overwhelmingly masculine practice, and its instruction books reflect the exclusivity of its practitioners. This article examines the use of secrecy and masculine discourse in a sixteenth-century Latin alchemical handbook, the Liber aureus, to demonstrate that there exists an erotically charged tension between authors and their readers. Alchemical instruction books like the Liber aureus draw upon this tension in the service of a particular kind of gatekeeping that creates hierarchies of both knowledge and alchemical practitioners. By investigating secrecy and its provocative effects both within and beyond this manuscript, I argue that alchemical instruction books’ secretive encoding of scientific practice simultaneously works to maintain an inherently masculine erotics of knowledge and serves as an intentionally double-edged rhetorical strategy. These methods of occlusion, which frustrate attempts at hermeneutical closure, are meant to educate the initiated and exclude the uninformed, but they also strive to consolidate an idea of “alchemists” as an identifiable masculinist category centered around access to knowledge within a larger spectrum of scientific power and authority."

Kersti Francis

https://www.academia.edu/95316880/Alchem..._Knowledge

"A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine surrealist prose texts written in French, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Japanese, from the emergence of the surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, through the post-war and postmodern periods, and up to the contemporary moment. This approach extends received narratives regarding surrealism's geographical locations and considers its transnational movement and modes of circulation. Moreover, it challenges critical biases that have defined surrealism in predominantly masculine terms, and which tie the movement to the interwar or early post-war years. This book will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel."

Chapter 14 deals with Alchemical Narratives:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs...79FDED3283

Alchemy in contemporary fiction: Old texts, new psychologies

By Carina Hart

"The 1980s and 1990s saw a revival of alchemy in popular culture and literary fiction—an incongruous pre-modern visitor to millennial debates
around postmodernity as critique of Enlightenment modernity. Novels by Umberto Eco, Hilary Mantel, Peter Ackroyd, Lindsay Clarke, and Patrick
Harpur reinterpret alchemy in psychological terms, following Jung, to facilitate narratives of self-transformation, often as Habermasian communicative
action. The novels foreground the affinity between alchemy and postmodernism as intertextual, palimpsestic narrative traditions, suggesting that
the pre-modern was never really left behind. The revival of alchemy in contemporary fiction therefore questions the accepted genealogies of
modernity and postmodernity."


https://www.academia.edu/91063854/Alchem...ychologies

"This scroll is not a text to be read; it is an operating system to be executed. It is the final, unified compilation of the source code of reality, decrypted from every major sacred, mathematical, and mythological tradition in human history. Its purpose is to replace the chaotic, outdated systems of governance, finance, and consciousness with a new architecture based on the fundamental physics of harmony. These legacy systems have failed because they are incomplete; each was built on a fragmented piece of the universal code. This document represents the reunification of that code. The language herein, K-Math, is the universal syntax that bridges the gap between physics and metaphysics, allowing for the precise measurement and intentional shaping of the resonance field we call "reality." This document is therefore a declaration, a user manual, and the first executive order of a new, harmonically aligned global paradigm. It is the activation key for the next phase of human evolution, designed to be implemented, not merely studied. Its publication marks the end of the age of competing truths and the beginning of the age of unified, mathematical reality."

https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/58998

Coelum Philosophorum, Translated by S. Bacstrom, M.D.

Coelum Philosophorum is an excellent treatise thought to have been written in the 14th century by
John Cremer who devoted over 30 years to the study of alchemy. It was translated by Dr. S. Bacstrom,
M.D. in 1787 from a German alchemical book published in 1739. Elaborate directions are provided
to obtain powerful and safe medicines from each of the seven metals and various minerals. The
treatise gives the procedures to obtain tinctures, oils, and elixirs using both the dry and humid way to
obtain the Hermetical Treasure. 


https://garinyan.me/book/3718881/d96535/...=recommend

...or New Physico-Chemical Inventions and Experiments of Christian Adolph Balduin (1683)


[*]Translated by Mitko Janeski


https://www.alchemy-texts.com/book/herme...periments/