Thomas Willard: Alchemy and the Bible

[Paul Ferguson]

"John Donne thought it a wild extension of the imagination when he wrote, in his "Valediction: of the Booke" that "in the Bible some can finde out Alchimy." But many authors attempted it during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This paper explores the logic behind their excesses, and establishes a link to explorations in archetypal literary criticism."

https://www.academia.edu/39638068/Alchemy_and_the_Bible