Writings About Wisdom – Alchemy
Alchemical Catechism Q. What is the chief study of a Philosopher? A. It is the investigation of the operations of Nature. Q. What is the end of Nature? A. God, Who is also its beginning. Q. Whence are all things derived? A. From one and indivisible Nature. Q. Into how many regions is Nature separated? … Read more
THE AURORA OF THE PHILOSOPHERS THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS WHICH HE OTHERWISE CALLS HIS MONARCHIA.1 CHAPTER I. CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF THE PHILOSOPHERS’ STONE. ADAM was the first inventor of arts, because he had knowledge of all things as well after the Fall as before2. Thence he predicted the world’s destruction by water. From this cause, too, … Read more
By Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, Paracelsus the Great NATURE begets a mineral in the bowels of the earth. There are two kinds of it, which are found in many districts of Europe. The best which has been offered to me, which also has been found genuine in experimentation, is externally in the figure of the greater … Read more
A TREATISE on The Great Art A SYSTEM OF PHYSICS ACCORDING TO HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE MAGISTERIUM. By Dom ANTOINE-JOSEPH PERNETY, Benedictine Monk of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, Abbot of Burgel in Thuringe, Librarian of Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, etc. EDITED BY EDOUARD BLITZ, M. D., Doctor In Kabbalah, … Read more
by Barbara Obrist Introduction Visualization in medieval alchemy is a relatively late phenomenon. Documents dating from the introduction of alchemy into the Latin West around 1140 up to the mid-thirteenth century are almost devoid of pictorial elements.[1] During the next century and a half, the primary mode of representation remained linguistic and propositional; pictorial forms … Read more
From Alchemy To Chemistry
The Key to Life and Death is everywhere to be found, but if you do not find it in your own house, you will find it nowhere. Yet, it is before everyone’s eyes. No one can live without it. Everyone has used it. The poor usually possess it more than the rich. Children play with … Read more
The Mirror of Alchemy, composed by the famous Friar, Roger Bacon, sometime fellow of Martin College and Brasen-nase College in Oxenforde. CHAPTER I. Of the Definitions of Alchemy. In many ancient Books there are found many definitions of this Art, the intentions whereof we must consider in this Chapter. For Hermes said of this Science: … Read more