Alchemy

Classic study by noted authority covers 2,000 years of alchemical history: religious, mystical overtones; apparatus; signs, symbols, and secret terms; advent of scientific method, much more. Illustrated.

Transmission of Alchemy is a new literal translation from two versions of an ancient Arabic source-work known as The Epistle of Morienus to Prince Khālid bin Yazīd. Morienus draws on Hermetic and Gnostic as well as Persian, Greek, Jewish and Egyptian sources of wisdom - a delight for those interested

Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy (7 volume set) offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions. Some texts examine alchemy itself while some offer insight into the motives for alchemical research and others outlay portraits of people such as

A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, this book goes about intimating the mystical experience underlying hermetic symbolism. It outlines some of the ‘secret’ inner meanings to alchemy - symbolism, metaphysics, and

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