Author: Isabel Cooper-Oakley This is a most complete and excellent telling of the life of Count Saint Germain. Many private letters and documents are quoted to talk about the Count from the perpective of others who knew and interacted with him. These quotes serve to solidify his existence as a real person in Europe’s history […]
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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 Secret Work of the Hermetic Philosophy. Review of Collectanea Hermetica, Volume I: Hermetic Arcanum
Review of Collectanea Hermetica, Volume I: Hermetic Arcanum Editor: Westcott, W. Wynn The opening volume of W. Wynn Westcott’s Collectanea Hermetica occupies a special place in the canon of English Hermetic publishing. First issued in London in 1893 under Westcott’s editorship, it inaugurates the series with a tract whose influence had already spanned centuries: Jean […]
H. Stanley Redgrove and I. M. L. Redgrove H. Stanley Redgrove and I. M. L. Redgrove’s 1922 study, Joannes Baptista van Helmont: Alchemist, Physician and Philosopher, remains one of the most readable portraits of the seventeenth century’s most paradoxical figure—a mystic who coined “gas,” a physician who distrusted Galen, and a theologically serious experimenter who […]
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Review of: A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels By Benedictus Figulus
Review of A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels By Benedictus Figulus (1607; Eng. trans. A.E. Waite, 1893) Benedictus Figulus’s A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels stands as one of the more ambitious attempts to canonize and defend the Hermetic-Paracelsian worldview on the eve of the Rosicrucian ferment. First printed in 1607 […]
Concerning the Tincture of the Philosophers Bombastus, Paracelsus, Warwick, Tarl The section “Concerning the Tincture of the Philosophers” from The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus offers one of the clearest windows into Paracelsus’s most daring claim: that the logic of alchemical transformation applies not only to metals in the furnace but also to the […]
by Philip N. Wheeler (Author), Hans W. Nintzel (Author) This is a very comprehensive collection of Alchecmical Symbols that make reading books from the R.A.M.S. Library of Alchemy as well as other older coded writing much easier to understand. These symbols can be found online elsewhere for certain, but for instance the Wikipedia page of […]
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