This session delves into the mysteries of perhaps the most extraordinary of all alchemical texts, the Atalanta Fugiens of Michael Maier.

This session focuses on alchemical and hermetic themes in brief selections from poetry of the Elizabethan era and early decades

The cultural transformations of the Enlightenment, or Early-Modern Era, involved the psychologicizing of alchemical mythologies

One of the secret undercurrents of the literature of the American Renaissance in the mid 19th century

At the same time that renewed interest in alchemy and hermeticism was being explored in both Freudian and Jungian circles

The reduction to the fundamental elements of aesthetic composition—geometrical figures like the rectangle, square, circle

Jung’s engagement with alchemy began in the late 1920s and dominated his late work

Perhaps the oldest and most enduring of all myths is the Nekyia: the descent to and return from the underworld.

Leonora Carrington’s traumatic breakdown and incarceration in the Spanish asylum at Santander,