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"Alchemy
Rediscovered and Restored" by Archibald Cochren.
With an account of the extraction of the seed of metals and the preparation
of the medicinal elixir according to the practice of the hermetic
Art and of the Alkahest of the Philosopher. Philadelphia, David McKay.
1941. [3 Parts], 115 pages. (ALCHEMY_REDISCOVERED:.doc, .pdf)
Table of Contents:
Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored. p.1
THE SMARAGDINE TABLES OF HERMES TRISMEGISTUS.
p.4
FOREWORD BY SIR DUDLEY BORRON MYERS, O.B.E. p.5
PART I. HISTORICAL
CHAPTER I. BEGINNINGS OF ALCHEMY. p.9
CHAPTER II. EARLY EUROPEAN ALCHEMISTS. p.10
CHAPTER III. THE STORY OF NICHOLAS FLAMEL. p.12
CHAPTER IV. BASIL VALENTINE. p.18
CHAPTER V. PARACELSUS. p.21
CHAPTER VI. ALCHEMY IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. p.24
CHAPTER VII. ENGLISH ALCHEMISTS. p.29
CHAPTER VIII. THE COMTE DE ST. GERMAIN. p.35
PART II. THEORETICAL
CHAPTER I. THE SEED OF METALS. p.38
CHAPTER II. THE SPIRIT OF MERCURY. p.43
CHAPTER III. THE QUINTESSENCE (I). p.47
THE QUINTESSENCE. (II). p.49
CHAPTER IV. THE QUINTESSENCE IN DAILY LIFE. p.52
PART III
CHAPTER I. THE MEDICINE FROM METALS. p.56
CHAPTER II. PRACTICAL. p.61
CONCLUSION. p.66
'AUREUS,' OR THE GOLDEN TRACTATE. p.68
SECTION I. p.68
SECTION II. p.70
SECTION III. p.73
SECTION IV. p.74
SECTION V. p.75
SECTION VI. p.76
SECTION VII. p.77
THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION OF HERMES. INTERPRETED
BY THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS. CONCERNING THE SUPREME SECRET OF THE WORLD.
p.79
First published under the auspices of Benedictus Figulus in his 'Golden
and Blessed Casket of Nature's Marvels,' in 1608 (a translation of
which work was edited and introduced by Mr. Arthur Edward Waite in
the latter part of the last century). |
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