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Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde - Paul Ferguson - 11-22-2025
"Spanning the world’s artistic, scientific and religious traditions, alchemy has embraced and continues to embrace the complete spectrum of existence. From metallurgy to metaphysics, alchemy engages the technical, fine and hieratic arts in order to provide a living phenomenology of the one, single, elusive process that acts through all things. Ultimately—in its guise as « ars transmutationis »—alchemy penetrates to the heart of the transfiguring spiritual intensity that underpins the perfection of life, from mineral to human. Despite this profoundly all-embracing purview, however, alchemy continues to be conceived as either proto-chemistry or proto-psychology. The present volume seeks to redress this false dichotomy by exploring alchemy as a quintessentially integral phenomenon."
Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde by Aaron Cheak
https://www.academia.edu/379294/Alchemical_Traditions_From_Antiquity_to_the_Avant_Garde