Contains its development and records; with intimations of the mystical experience which underlies Hermetic Symbolism. Chapters on Alchemy and supernatural life; Modern views on the Hermetic Mystery; Further speculations on philosophical gold; Ancient hermetic books and the way of the soul therein; Alchemy in China; The testimony of Byzantine alchemy; Arabian and Syriac Alchemy; The early Latin literature; The later chain of Hermes; The myth of Flamel; The chariot of Basil Valentine; Paracelsus; Denys Zachaire and others; Famous English philosophers; Alchemy and exploitation; The new light of alchemy; The reformation and German alchemy; Thomas Vaughan; The cosmopolite; John Frederick Helvetius; An alchemist of Mitylene; The Mystic side of Alchemy; Animal magnetism; and Kabalistic alchemy.
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As complete a history of Alchemy I have yet to read. It is so much much more than the attempt or early science of turning base metals into gold or silver. There were secret or inner meanings to alchemy involving symbolism, metaphysics, and it's practice was considered a spiritual path. This book contains a universe of information on the subject and is well worth reading to anyone who wants to know more on this engaging subject.
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WHILE the explorations and discoveries of science grow from more to more and are offering us at this time not all uncertain suggestions of still untrodden fields, on the threshold of which we stand, there are moments also when apparently quixotic quests, beliefs and hopes of a nearer or further past appear to us less extravagant than they did a few decades ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Philosopher's Stone, Thomas Vaughan, Rosy Cross, Suggestive Inquiry, Lenglet du Fresnoy, Great Secret, Edward Kelley, Theatrum Chemicum, Lumen de Lumine, Robert Fludd, Albertus Magnus, Greek Alchemy, Alexander Seton, Denys Zachaire, Nicholas Flamel, Spirit of God, Arthur Dee, Benedictus Figulus, Divine Water, Hermetic Art, Hermetic Philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, Currus Triumphalis, Holy Ghost, Philosophical Mercury New!
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WHILE the explorations and discoveries of science grow from more to more and are offering us at this time not all uncertain suggestions of still untrodden fields, on the threshold of which we stand, there are moments also when apparently quixotic quests, beliefs and hopes of a nearer or further past appear to us less extravagant than they did a few decades ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transmuting powder, surface colouration, metallic transmutation, alchemical subject, mystical fancies, alchemical literature, philosophical egg, transmute metals, threefold life, alchemical tracts, transmuting metals, imperfect metals, alchemical books, inferior metals, symbolical language, alchemical texts, first matter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Philosopher's Stone, Thomas Vaughan, Rosy Cross, Suggestive Inquiry, Lenglet du Fresnoy, Great Secret, Edward Kelley, Theatrum Chemicum, Lumen de Lumine, Robert Fludd, Albertus Magnus, Greek Alchemy, Alexander Seton, Denys Zachaire, Nicholas Flamel, Spirit of God, Arthur Dee, Benedictus Figulus, Divine Water, Hermetic Art, Hermetic Philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, Currus Triumphalis, Holy Ghost, Philosophical Mercury New!
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- Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (Sources of Science, No. 39) on page 203, page 221, and page 338
- Compound of Alchemy by George Ripley on page 205, and page 209
- Twelve Keys by Basil Valentine on page 170, and page 171
- The Cults of the Greek States Part One by Lewis Richard Farnell on page 28
- Water of Life by Henry Morton Robinson on page 216
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- Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own by Ms. Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Rose-Mary Sargent in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Black Arts: A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages (Perigee) by Richard Cavendish in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Holy Kabbalah: A Mystical Interpretation of the Scriptures by A. E. Waite in Front Matter, and page 477
- Psychology and Religion (The Terry Lectures Series) by Carl Gustav Jung in Back Matter
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