Copy of an Anonymous Letter to Mr. Ford on the Lapis Philosophorum
transcribed from http://archive.org/details/manlypalmerhbox18v2hall. This letter was received by Sigismund Bacstrom's friend, a "Mr Ford", and copied by Bacstrom.SirBeing informed that you are...
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Anonymous Letter sent to Mr. Bacstrom
transcribed from http://archive.org/details/manlypalmerhbox18v2hall. Laus DeoButter of Antimony is the Philosophers MercuryIt is the Body changed into a Spirita Chemical Death and Resurrection only...
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A Philosophical Riddle
[from the Aurifontina Chymica]A Strife late rose in Heaven, yet undecided,and the chief Deities were by pairs divided:Saturn and Luna one Opinion held,Which Jove and Mercury (combin'd) refell'd:Venus...
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The Argument Betweene Morien The Father, & Merline The Sonne
Transcribed by F. Sherwood Taylor from MS Ashmole 1445 in Chymia, Vol. 1 (1948), pp. 23-35A fragment was published in Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum.The Argument Betweene Morien The Father& Merline...
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An Alchemical Parallisme
[Anonymous tract from a manuscript of Hugh Platt, MS. Sloane 2203. Transcribed by Robert M. Schuler in "Some Spiritual Alchemies of Seventeenth-Century England"]This Parallisme [sic] shewesThat the...
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Alchemy and the Songe-Verd
image from University of Delawaretranslation by Tenney L. Davis in The Monist, Vol. 30, No. 1attributed to Bernard TrevisanRead more...FIRST PART.Concerning the substance of the Stone of the...
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Jakob Böhme Illustrations
Right-click and "View Image" or "Save As" to get the full-resolution file. These are mirrored from an eBay auction of a 1764 William Law edition of Böhme.See more..."Memorial" from "The Life Of Jakob...
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Tamil Siddhar Poetry
(forgive me if this image is not apropos to the content of this post) [image source]Translations by Layne Little on the Alchemy WebsiteEnglish translation of Ramalinga's ThiruvarutpaSome various verses...
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The Forbidden Fruit
[image source]This post is a corrected OCR of a book on the interpretation of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, by Sebastian Franck aka Augustinus Eleutherius, who, according to Rufus Jones,...
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Song of the Golden Elixir
Translated by Tenney L. Davis and Chao Yün-Ts'ung in Isis Vol 30 No 2 as "An alchemical poem by Kao Hsiang-Hsien (高象先)." Their transliterations and glosses are rather out-of-date, but the numbers for...
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[excerpt Chapter 14 from Idries Shah's book Oriental Magic]"Gold! Which the Sun has given wondrous hue; which those before you, with plentiful progeny, did ever seek: may this gold surround you with...
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Three Principles which Originally Constitute the World
[Transcribed from Sloane 3632, image from the same MS]There are Three Principles which Originally Constitute ye world as is Taught by 1. Moses2. Hermes &3. Antients 4. Alchemists5. To These may bee...
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A Charnock Parchment: "Process of the Philosopher's Stone"
This is a poor-quality, essentially illegible image of Sloane 2640, which may be nonetheless interesting for the unusual formatting and Lullian diagrams. More Charnock: Charnock's Breviary of...
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To my worthily honour'd William Backhouse Esquire Upon his adopting of me to...
Excerpted from: "Some Spiritual Alchemies of Seventeenth-Century England"Robert M. Schuler. Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 41, No. 2 Ashmole records in his notebook a horoscope for 12:30 p.m.,...
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RIP Paul Laffoley
Read some of Laffoley's very interesting essaysWatch a documentary, The Mad One
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Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA,ORBROTHERLY LOVETo theSTUDIOUSIn theHERMETICK ART.Wherein is discovered the Principles of HERMETICK PHILOSOPHY, with much Candor and Plainness.Written by Eyreneus PhiloctetesAnd God said...
View ArticleThe work of Johannes Gier.
transcribed from the Manly P Hall collectionTake, in the name of God, of the purest Mercury sublimate, sublimed three or four times, and revive it with an equal weight of quicklime and half as much...
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Lully's Theory of the Philosophers Fires Explained by Ripley
images from Hermetico-Spagyrisches Lustgärtleintext transcribed from the Manly P. Hall collectionLULLY's THEORYof our Fires, without whose knowledge the Majistry is not perfected.In this there are...
View ArticleThe Process of Leona Constantia
Lady Abbess of the Convent of Clermont.Translated from the German Work, entitled, The Sun-Flower of the Wise. [Sonnenblume der Weisen, 1704(?)]Transcribed from the Manly P Hall collection(Fairly...
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Multum in Parvo
Transcribed from the Manly P Hall collectionThe Eagle's Gluten is our Double Mercury, called Azoth [composed of our Luna and secret fire].The Blood of the Lion is Gold, Mercurialised and volatilised in...
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The Book of Comarius
portrait of Cleopatra from Hermetico-Spagyrisches LustgärtleinThe Greek text of the Book of Comarius[also known as "Cleopatra and the Philosophers"] reads like a translation from another language, or...
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The Treatise on Oneness
(There is a newer translation of this work entitled Know Yourself: An Explanation of the Oneness of Beingreviewed here)Art. XXIX. — Translation of an Arabic Manuscript in the Hunterian Collection,...
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Titus Burckhardt on Sufism and Alchemy
Image from Burckhardt's Mystical Astrology According to Ibn 'Arabi The following is excerpted from Titus Burckhardt's Introduction to Sufi Doctrine:The term "alchemy" is very suitable as applied to the...
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Liu I-ming on How to Read the Hsi-yu chi (The Journey to the West)
[image from www.innerjourneytothewest.com] Translated and Annotated by ANTHONY C. YUAdditional Annotation by DAVID L. ROLSTON The book, The Journey to the West, is the great way transmitted from mouth...
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