The Hermetic MuseumThis work represents a distinctive school of alchemy -- it belonged to a period that had inherited a bitter experience of the failures, impostures, and misery surrounding the "Magnum Opus" and its mystical quest. The treatises contained in this volume are by the authors of historical legend: John de Mehung, Nicholas Flamel, Basil Valentine, Eirenaeus Philalethes, Helvetius, Michael Maier, Michael Sendivogius, Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas, and Basilius Valentinus. Illustrated. |
Contents
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Having now appeared | 51 |
THE SOPHIC HYDROLITH or Water Stone of the Wise | 69 |
A DEMONSTRATION OF NATURE made to the erring | 121 |
A SHORT TRACT or PHILOSOPHICAL SUMMARY | 141 |
THE NEW CHEMICAL LIGHT Drawn from the Foun | 79 |
THE NEW CHEMICAL LIGHT Second Part Concerning | 127 |
AN OPEN ENTRANCE TO THE CLOSED PALACE OF | 159 |
The Chemical Treatise of Thomas Norton The Testament | 199 |
THE THREE TREATISES OF PHILALETHES I | 225 |
of Philalethes II The Three Treatises of Philalethes III | 243 |
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