The Hand that Holds the Secret “Nature delights in Nature, Nature conquers Nature, Nature contains Nature.”— Anonymous, Book of the Hand of the Philosophers, 17th century In the quiet archives of European alchemy, there exists an emblem so deceptively simple it could be mistaken for a devotional sketch. A human hand, open to the viewer, […]
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The Hand of the Philosophers: The Alchemist’s Hidden Map of Creation
The Hand that Holds the Secret “Nature delights in Nature, Nature conquers Nature, Nature contains [...]
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The Revelation of Hermes in Figulus’s Golden and Blessed Casket
Among the many treatises preserved by Benedictus Figulus in his A Golden and Blessed Casket [...]
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Unlocking the Hermetic Museum: A Window into the Philosopher’s Stone
First published in 1678, The Hermetic Museum: How that Greatest and Truest Medicine of the [...]
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Book Review: The Book of Aquarius
Review: The Book of Aquarius (Anonymous) Released March 20, 2011; updated January 15, 2012. The [...]
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The Most Holy Trinosophia (of the Comte De St. Germain)
Author: St Germain, Le Comte De A fascinating book attributed to the infamous Count Saint [...]
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The Revelation of Hermes in Figulus’s Golden and Blessed Casket
Among the many treatises preserved by Benedictus Figulus in his A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels (1607), none is more central than The Book of the Revelation of Hermes, Interpreted by Theophrastus Paracelsus, Concerning the Supreme Secret of the World. Figulus clearly understood this piece to be the doctrinal heart of his anthology, […]
First published in 1678, The Hermetic Museum: How that Greatest and Truest Medicine of the Philosopher’s Stone may be Found and Held offers not a recipe for gold, but a gallery of allegories and doctrines that shaped both early modern science and the esoteric imagination. Review First issued in Latin in 1678 and later translated […]
Review: The Book of Aquarius (Anonymous) Released March 20, 2011; updated January 15, 2012. The anonymous author of The Book of Aquarius promises a jailbreak: strip alchemy of its “hooded cloaks,” throw open a twelve-millennia secret, and hand the public kitchen-table instructions for the Philosophers’ Stone. The book’s thesis is arresting in its simplicity—alchemy is […]
Author: St Germain, Le Comte De A fascinating book attributed to the infamous Count Saint Germain himself, this completely allegorical story is a symbolic explanation of the Philosophers Stone and it’s creation. It reads like one big beautiful multifaceted riddle. My copy includes small reproductions of symbolic images that accompany each chapter of the book. […]
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The Alchemist’s Handbook: A Practical Manual Weiser Classics Series A Practical Manual
Albertus, Frater, Bartlett, Robert Allen, Regardie, Israel Review of The Alchemist’s Handbook by Frater Albertus A Practical Magnum Opus in Miniature In 1960, when The Alchemist’s Handbook first appeared, few could have imagined that a slim manual could reshape the modern study of alchemy. Frater Albertus — born Albert Richard Riedel, founder of the Paracelsus […]
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The Hermetic Museum: How that Greatest and Truest Medicine of the Philospher’s Stone may be Found and Held
Editor: A. E. Waite This is a fantastic collection of centturies old alchemical texts orignally published in Latin in 1678. The consistency of the message is amazing considering the timespan and the variety authors invovled. This is a great read for anyone who isl earning about Alchemy as is explains clearly the concepts behind the […]
The Secrets of Alchemy Principe, Lawrence M. The Secrets of Alchemy brings alchemical history vividly into the light, challenging the misconception that alchemy was mere superstition. Instead, Principe presents it as a serious, empirical, and at times ingenious precursor to modern chemistry. He leads readers through a sweeping historical canvas—from Greco-Egyptian origins, through Arabic and […]
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The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great, Vol. 1 of 2
Review — The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, Vol. I of II (Arthur Edward Waite, 1894) Arthur Edward Waite’s 1894 translation of The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, Volume I is best understood as an ambitious attempt to render accessible in English the labyrinthine corpus of Paracelsus’s “chemical” texts. Where the companion Volume […]
Salomon Trismosin Dr. Stephen Skinner (Author), Dr Rafal T. Prinke (Author), Georgiana Hedesan (Author), Joscelyn Godwin (Author) Review of Splendor Solis: The World’s Most Famous Alchemical Manuscript The Splendor Solis has long occupied a unique place in the Western alchemical canon, celebrated not only for the ambition of its text but above all for the […]
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