The Secret Tradition in Alchemy (LARGE PRINT EDITION)
- Editore:
Kessinger Publishing, LLC
- EAN:
9781169832251
- ISBN:
1169832253
- Pagine:
- 440
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Secret Tradition in Alchemy (LARGE PRINT EDITION)
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 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.