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, […]
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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 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 [...]
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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 […]
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 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 […]
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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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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 […]