Alchemy

Although the alchemists’ fundamental goal of elemental transmutation was flawed, on a deeper level the work of alchemy (cloaked in allegorical images) also represented the transformation of the soul. Modern science has accomplished the transmutation of elements using means that the alchemists never dreamed of. And there is still a small group of occult researchers who persist in trying to continue the work. The documents of alchemy make fascinating reading for historians of science and the esoteric.

The Hermetic Museum:
Volume I
Volume II
tr. by Arthur Edward Waite [1893]
A completely new scan of this key collection of Alchemical tracts.

Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored by A. Cockren [1941]
A modern alchemist who claims to have been able to reproduce the process of creation of the philosopher’s stone.

Collectanea Chemica
ed. by A. E. Waite [1893]
A sampling of curious Alchemical literature.

Triumphal Chariot of Antimony by Basil Valentine
Golden Chain of Homer
Emerald Tablet of Hermes
Glory of the World
The Six Keys of Eudoxus
Freher’s Process in the Philosophical Work
The Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus
The Hermetic Arcanum
Hortulanus’ Commentary on the Emerald Tablet
The Stone of the Philosophers by Edward Kelly
Mary the Prophetess
An Alchemical Mass
The Mirror of Alchemy
On the Philadelphian Gold
Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony by Roger Bacon
Turba Philosophorum (part 1)
Turba Philosophorum (part 2)

The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus

A.E. Waite, Translator (Excerpts)

[1894]

Coelum philosophorum by Paracelsus
The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers by Paracelsus
The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists by Paracelsus
The Aurora of the Philosophers by Paracelsus
Alchemical Catechism