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In 1968 he and wife Yoko Ono put on a display called Alchemical Wedding, in which they sat in a large white bag while a man played a flute.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2021

Alchemical images are now completely uncoupled from mainstream scientific practice.

From Nature • Apr. 28, 2020

Vertigo Comics Alchemical symbols abound in Goddess Mode, woven inextricably into code.

From The Verge • Dec. 27, 2018

Alchemical Wedding – three glass jars filled with hair, fingernail clippings and skin – highlights the couple’s surgical and performative attempt to meld their existence into one, to defy “the tyranny of DNA”.

From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2016

Alchemical jargon created to deceive the vulgar herd, 731-u.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert