The lost knowledge of Alchemy E-Book

A.e. Waite

• Herausgeber: A.e. Waite
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The Hermetic Tracts comprised in this volume are printed from a quarto manuscript (itself a transcript from an older but now untraceable work) belonging to the celebrated collection of the late Mr. Frederick Hockley, who was well known among modern students of the secret sciences, not only for the resources of his Hermetic library, but for his practical acquaintance with many branches of esoteric lore, and for his real or reputed connection with the numerous but unavowed associations which now, as at anterior periods, are supposed to dispense initiation into occult knowledge. While practically the reprint is verbatim, it would have been a needless source of confusion, in a subject which is already sufficiently confused, to have reproduced the obsolete orthography, the superfluous capitals, the perplexing parentheses, the unnecessary italics, and the chaotic punctuation of the original. These, therefore, have been abandoned in favour of a simpler method. But the flavour of antiquity is sometimes valued for its age rather than its excellence; and partly in deference to this prejudice, there has been no attempt to reconstruct the style of these old writings.

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A.E. Waite

The lost knowledge of Alchemy

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Table of contents

Preface

THE SECRET OF THE IMMORTAL LIQUOR CALLED ALKAHEST OR IGNIS-AQUA.

AURUM POTABILE: OR THE RECEIPT OF Dr. Fr. ANTONIE

THE ADMIRABLE EFFICACY AND ALMOST INCREDIBLE VIRTUE OF TRUE OIL WHICH IS MADE OF SULPHUR VIVE SET ON FIRE AND COMMONLY CALLED OIL OF SULPHUR PER CAMPANAM.

THE BOSOM BOOK OF SIR GEORGE RIPLEY

PREPARATIONS OF THE SOPHIC MERCURY.

The Stone of the Philosophers. CHAPTER I. The Introduction.

CHAPTER II. Of the Vegetable Tincture, or the Process called the Lesser Circulation.

CHAPTER III. Of the Uses of the Vegetable Tinctures, with some general remarks on their great efficacy in medicine.

CHAPTER IV. Of the Metallic Tincture.

CHAPTER V. Of the Second Matter, or Seed in Metals.

CHAPTER VI. Of the Dissolution and Extraction of the Seed in Metals.

CHAPTER VII. Of the Separation and Further Treatment of our Philosophical Seed.

CHAPTER VIII. Of the Union or Mystical Marriage in the Philosophical Process.

CHAPTER IX. Of the Further Treatment and Ripening of our Seed.

CHAPTER X. Of the Further Process to the Ripening of our Noble Seed.

CHAPTER XI. A Further Description of the Process.

CHAPTER XII. Of the Stone and its Uses.

CHAPTER XIII. Of the Transmutation.

Preface

The Hermetic Tracts comprised in this volume are printed from a quarto manuscript (itself a transcript from an older but now untraceable work) belonging to the celebrated collection of the late Mr. Frederick Hockley, who was well known among modern students of the secret sciences, not only for the resources of his Hermetic library, but for his practical acquaintance with many branches of esoteric lore, and for his real or reputed connection with the numerous but unavowed associations which now, as at anterior periods, are supposed to dispense initiation into occult knowledge. While practically the reprint isverbatim, it would have been a needless source of confusion, in a subject which is already sufficiently confused, to have reproduced the obsolete orthography, the superfluous capitals, the perplexing parentheses, the unnecessary italics, and the chaotic punctuation of the original. These, therefore, have been abandoned in favour of a simpler method. But the flavour of antiquity is sometimes valued for its age rather than its excellence; and partly in deference to this prejudice, there has been no attempt to reconstruct the style of these old writings. Moreover, though somewhat barbarous and entangled, it does not present sufficient difficulties to justify a drastic purgation.

THE SECRET OF THE IMMORTAL LIQUOR CALLED ALKAHEST OR IGNIS-AQUA.