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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Historical Alchemy The Count of Saint Germain
Count Saint-Germain: Facts, Legends, and the Surviving Works
Count Saint-Germain: Facts, Legends, and the Surviving Works Origins and Early Life Historical records of [...]
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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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Historical Alchemy The Count of Saint Germain
The Divine Names of the Triangular Book of Saint-Germain
🜍 The Divine Names of the Triangular Book of Saint-Germain Introduction The Triangular Book of [...]
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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 […]
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Splendor Solis: The World’s Most Famous Alchemical Manuscript
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 […]
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 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 […]