The Modern Alchemist: A Guide to Personal Transformation (Paperback)

~ (Author), Iona Miller (Author)

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From Publishers Weekly

In an increasingly fragmented world, there is a constant quest for religious expression that will at last enable the union of the material and the spiritual. The Millers here demonstrate that such an expression is to be found in a combination of alchemy and the psychological studies of C. G. Jung, himself no stranger to alchemical study. Using the stages of purification and refinement found in The Book of Lambsprinck , a 16th-century alchemical text, as well as in Jung's archetypes of consciousness and unconsciousness, the authors trace the development of the self from solitude to union. The great attraction of the book is its affirmation of the redemption of broken matter in the union of self and soul. Illustrations, reproduced from The Book of Lambsprinck , are beautifully rendered. The end result, in sum, is a vital text for all spiritual seekers.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description

is a first-hand experiential guide to the process which medieval alchemists represented as the transmutation of lower substances into higher ones: lead into gold if you will. To Richard and Iona Miller the transformation goes far deeper than that-it is an inner change which leads to wholeness integration and flowering of the total personality. In the language of depth psychology as well as alchemy the authors show how to forge an intimate connection with the nurturing powers of the universe-and also with the lost part of ourselves.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 223 pages
• Publisher: Phanes Press (July 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933999372
• ISBN-13: 978-0933999374
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #765,317 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It may be simplistic, but it's definitely helpful., January 2, 2003

By	"lionsteeth" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews

A small book, but an excellent one insofar as practicality. For one beginning with alchemy (Or going through whatever spiritual path that causes changes within oneself) , it's a nice little guide to "What is happening? Why do I feel like this?" It works nicely as reassurance and confirmation through change, and also as a very basic primer on alchemy itself. Some steps appear to be missing, but as I said, it's a great book if you are searching for something basic.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Light shines upon Alchemy at last!, May 12, 2005

By	J.R.R.Abrahão (aka) "Mad Abe" "jrra" (São Paulo, SP, Brazil) - See all my reviews

I just read the last sentence on this most amazing book and I feel it changem me forever - and for better. I're read all the other works by Richard Alan Miller (and the ones by Iona Miller, too), and all that books are very good at least in it's path, to say so. But this book astonished me! I'm a rather complex person, as you can see at my Orkut's profile (http://www.orkut.com/Home.aspx?xid=14924282333718946610). Today, I feel the effects of my past experiences upon my life. With my operational background, it seems surprising to some that I'm an occultist, or a magician, if you will. Alt. I'm an author of several books on Magick, I'm still after the "Light" on several obscure topics, some of them that really haunt me day after day. C'mom, I'm not "Average Joe", and as such many complex things haunts me and I can not leave them alone. Untill reading this "Magnum Opus", I must say my understanding of Alchemy was not practical and in no way it can change anything on me. But this book tells it all, shedding Light on the most hermetical teachings, upon the most inner secrets, guarded for centuries from the human race. Richard and Iona Miller's book s the first one to show is everything about such secrets as Baphomet and it's message (Solve & Coagula), the Dragon, the Wolf and the Dog, the Prima Materia and Materia Prima, the Nigredo, the Solutio, Coagulatio, Sublimatio, Albedo, Rubedo, Coniunctio, Solificatio, Puer & Senex, the Devouring Father, Anima & Animus, the Ultima Materia, Archetypes, the Holly Guardian Angel, the reality about the Philosopher's Stone, the origins of The Book of Lambsprinck, plus the occult side of depression, phobias, anxiety and other modern "demons", besides the profiles of great Alchemy Masters of yesterday. Joel Radcliffe's alchemical illustrations are superb, and worth the book's price alone. I must congratulate the authors and publishers for this magnificent work. This is a must for any occultist's bookshelf. It is pure gold in book format.