
Marie-Louise von Franz: Fairy Tales, Alchemy and a Missing Name
She paid for her analysis with Jung in Latin translations, read fairy tales as maps of the psyche, and waited sixty years for her name on her own...

Alchemists Who Failed: The Gilded Gallows of 1597
Georg Honauer was hanged in 1597 on a gallows made of the iron he was supposed to turn into gold. What happened to gold makers who could not...

The Emerald Tablet: What It Actually Says
The Emerald Tablet in plain terms: what its thirteen lines claim, why the oldest wording is Arabic, why Newton translated it, and how Chicago 1908 made it famous.




