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Alchemy

Mutus Liber, pl. 2, detail, (18th cent.) public domain image


Although the alchemists’ fundamental goal of elemental transmutation was flawed, on a deeper level the work of alchemy (cloaked in allegorical images) also represented the transformation of the soul. Modern science has accomplished the transmutation of elements using means that the alchemists never dreamed of. And there is still a small group of occult researchers who persist in trying to continue the work. The documents of alchemy make fascinating reading for historians of science and the esoteric.


 The Hermetic Museum:
Volume I
Volume II
tr. by Arthur Edward Waite [1893]
A completely new scan of this key collection of Alchemical tracts.

 Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored by A. Cockren [1941]
A modern alchemist who claims to have been able to reproduce the process of creation of the philosopher’s stone.

 Collectanea Chemica
ed. by A. E. Waite [1893]
A sampling of curious Alchemical literature.


 Triumphal Chariot of Antimony by Basil Valentine
 Golden Chain of Homer
 Emerald Tablet of Hermes
 Glory of the World
 The Six Keys of Eudoxus
 Freher’s Process in the Philosophical Work
 The Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus
 The Hermetic Arcanum
 Hortulanus’ Commentary on the Emerald Tablet
 The Stone of the Philosophers by Edward Kelly
 Mary the Prophetess
 An Alchemical Mass
 The Mirror of Alchemy
 On the Philadelphian Gold
 Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony by Roger Bacon
 Turba Philosophorum (part 1)
 Turba Philosophorum (part 2)


The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus

A.E. Waite, Translator (Excerpts)

[1894]

 Coelum philosophorum by Paracelsus
 The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers by Paracelsus
 The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists by Paracelsus
 The Aurora of the Philosophers by Paracelsus
 Alchemical Catechism