The Secret Tradition in Alchemy the Secret Tradition in Alchemy

Contains its development and records; with intimations of the mystical experience which underlies Hermetic Symbolism. Chapters on Alchemy and supernatural life; Modern views on the Hermetic Mystery; Further speculations on philosophical gold; Ancient hermetic books and the way of the soul therein; Alchemy in China; The testimony of Byzantine alchemy; Arabian and Syriac Alchemy; The early Latin literature; The later chain of Hermes; The myth of Flamel; The chariot of Basil Valentine; Paracelsus; Denys Zachaire and others; Famous English philosophers; Alchemy and exploitation; The new light of alchemy; The reformation and German alchemy; Thomas Vaughan; The cosmopolite; John Frederick Helvetius; An alchemist of Mitylene; The Mystic side of Alchemy; Animal magnetism; and Kabalistic alchemy.

Author: Arthur Edward Waite
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 09/10/2010
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 6.00h x 9.02w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9781162561035

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