Writings About Wisdom – Alchemy
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 BOOK CONCERNING THE TINCTURE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS WRITTEN AGAINST THOSE SOPHISTS BORN SINCE THE DELUGE, IN THE AGE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD; By PH. THEOPHRASTUS BOMBAST, of HOHENHEIM, Philosopher of the Monarchia, Prince of Spagyrists, Chief Astronomer, Surpassing Physician, and Trismegistus of Mechanical Arcana. PREFACE. SINCE you, O Sophist, … 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
Paracelsus : (The “Swiss Hermes”) Let it be for you a great and high mystery in the light of nature that a thing can completely lose and forfeit its form and shape, only to arise subsequently out of nothing and become something whose potency and virtue is far nobler than what it was in … Read more