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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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 Triangular Book of Saint-Germain: Ritual Geometry and the Legend of Immortality
Facsimile of the Triangular Book of Saint-Germain—a red leatherbound edition reproducing the ciphered manuscript and accompanying silver talisman. The text describes three operations: to find treasures, to discover mines, and to prolong life through sacred geometry and invocation.
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Three Hands of the Triangular Book: The Living Cipher of Saint-Germain
Three Hands of the Triangular Book: The Living Cipher of Saint-Germain 1. Three Triangles on One Table Imagine three manuscripts resting on a wooden desk in uneven light.All bear the same name: Le Livre Triangulaire du Comte de Saint-Germain.Yet none is quite the same book.One gleams in red and gold triangles—MS 209 from the Manly […]
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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 […]
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 […]