Part I. Historical. Chapter Iv. Alchemy : p. 51 CHAPTER VI ALCHEMY IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES The first man to teach the chemistry of the human body and to declare, as did Paracelsus, that the true purpose of chemistry was the preparation of medicine for the treatment of disease was one "Jean Baptista van Helmont, "...
Aureus,' Or The Golden Tractate. Section I : p. 131 'AUREUS,' OR THE GOLDEN TRACTATE SECTION I EVEN thus saith Hermes: "Through long years I have not ceased to experiment, neither have I spared any labour of mind, and this science and art I have obtained by the sole inspiration of the Living God, who judged fit to open them to me His servant...
Part I. Historical. Chapter Iv. Basil Valentine : p. 40 CHAPTER IV BASIL VALENTINE RECORDS of the life of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine monk who for his achievements in the chemical sphere has been given the title of Father of Modern Chemistry, are a mass of conflicting evidence. Many and varied are the accounts of his life, and historians...
Aureus,' Or The Golden Tractate. Section V : p. 144 SECTION V "My Son, that which is born of the Crow is the beginning of this Art. Behold, now I have obscured the matter treated of, by circumlocution, depriving thee of the light. Yet this dissolved, this joined, this nearest and farthest off, I have named to thee. Roast those things...
Untitled : ALCHEMY REDISCOVERED AND RESTORED BY ARCHIBALD COCKREN [1941, Copyright Not Renewed] Title Page Contents The Smaragdine Tables of Hermes Trismegistus Foreword, By Sir Dudley Borron Myers PART I: HISTORICAL Chapter I. Beginnings of Alchemy Chapter II. Early European Alchemists Chapter III: The Story...
Aureus,' Or The Golden Tractate. Section Iv : SECTION IV "Understand, then, O Son of Wisdom, what the Stone declares: 'Protect me and I will protect Thee; increase my strength that I may help thee! My Sol and my beams are most inward and secretly in me, my own Luna, also, is my light, exceeding every other light, and my good things are better...
Part I. Historical. Chapter V. Paracelsus : ] p. 46 CHAPTER V PARACELSUS AUROLUS PHILLIPUS THEOPHRASTUR BOBASTUR VON HOHENHEIM, immortalized as Paracelsus, was born in 1493. He was the son of a physician of repute, who has been described as a Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, and it was from him that Paracelsus took his first instructi...
Part I. Historical. Chapter Ii. Early Europe : p. 25 CHAPTER II EARLY EUROPEAN ALCHEMISTS About the period of the first Crusades alchemy shifted its centre to Spain, to which country it had been introduced by the Moors. In the twelfth century "Artephius "wrote 'The Art of Prolonging Human Life,' and is reported to have lived throughout...
Part I. Historical. Chapter Iii. The Story : p. 30 CHAPTER III THE STORY OF NICHOLAS FLAMEL In the whole history of alchemy surely one of the most interesting stories is that of Nicholas Flamel (1330-1418), the most successful and most celebrated of France's adepts, and I am accordingly giving in his own words the account of the discovery...
The Smaragdine Tables Of Hermes Trismegistus : p. 11 THE SMARAGDINE TABLES OF HERMES TRISMEGISTUS said to be found in the Valley of Ebron, after the Flood. 1. I speak not fiction, but what is certain and most true. 2. What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below for performing the miracle of one...
Part Iii. Chapter I. The Medicine From Metals : p. 109 PART III p. 111 CHAPTER I THE MEDICINE FROM METALS In our treatment of the human body we have to remember that in composition it is not an inanimate object capable of sustaining the kind of treatment accorded to a sack of sand, but a delicate organism possessed of the capacity of feeling...
Foreword : p. 13 FOREWORD BY SIR DUDLEY BORRON MYERS, O.B.E. Having been intimately associated with Archibald Cockren during the past ten years, and having long since learnt to place implicit confidence in his efficiency and reliability in all matters to which he has devoted his many remarkable gifts...
Title Page : ALCHEMY REDISCOVERED AND RESTORED BY ARCHIBALD COCKREN Philadelphia, David McKay [1941] With an account of the extraction of the seed of metals and the preparation of the medicinal elixir according to the practice of the hermetic Art and of the Alkahest of the Philosopher To Mrs. Meyer Sasso...
Aureus,' Or The Golden Tractate. Section Iii : SECTION III "Know, my Son, that the philosophers bind up their matter with a strong chain that it may contend with the p. 140 [paragraph continues] Fire; because the spirits in the washed bodies desire to dwell therein and to rejoice. In these habitations they vivify themselves and inhabit there...
Part I. Historical. Chapter I. Beginnings : p. 18 PART I HISTORICAL p. 19 CHAPTER I BEGINNINGS OF ALCHEMY To most of us the word 'alchemy' calls up the picture of a medieval and slightly sinister laboratory in which an aged, black-robed wizard brooded over the crucibles and alembics that were to bring within his reach the Philosophers'...
Part Ii. Theoretical. The Quintessence : THE QUINTESSENCE. (II) 'Nothing of true value is located in the body of a substance, but in the virtue ther, and this is the principle of the Quintessence, which reduces, say 20 lbs. of a given substance into a single ounce, and that ounce far exceeds the 20 lbs. in potency. Hence the less there is...
Part Ii. Theoretical. Chapter I. The Seed : p. 77 PART II THEORETICAL p. 79 CHAPTER I THE SEED OF METALS In this section I am placing before my readers some alchemystical teachings, together with my own interpretation of the theory of alchemy, in an attempt to clarify some of the apparent jargon in which the alchemist expressed his thoughts...
Part Ii. Theoretical. Chapter Ii. The Spirit : p. 87 CHAPTER II THE SPIRIT OF MERCURY In the previous chapter I spoke of the substances Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt as being analagous to the Spirit, Soul, and Body. What I intend to convey is that the Spirit of the Metal is the Spirit of Mercury (a volatile essence which in its gaseous state is...
Aureus,' Or The Golden Tractate. Section Vi : SECTION VI "It behoves thee to give thanks to God, Who has bestowed liberally of his bounty to the Wise, Who delivers us from misery and poverty. I am tempted and proven with the fulness of His substance and His probable wonders, and humbly pray God that whilst we live we may come to Him. "Remove...
The Book Of The Revelation Of Hermes : p. 149 THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION OF HERMES INTERPRETED BY THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS CONCERNING THE SUPREME SECRET OF THE WORLD Hermes, Plato, Aristotle, and the other philosophers, flourishing at different times, who have introduced the Arts, and more especially have explored the secrets...
Aureus,' Or The Golden Tractate. Section Vii : SECTION VII "Know ye then, O Sons of Science, there are seven bodies, of which gold is the first, the most perfect, the king of them, and their head, which neither the earth can corrupt nor fire devastate, nor the water change for its complexion is equalized, and its nature regulated with respect...
Aureus,' Or The Golden Tractate. Section Ii : SECTION II "My son, before all things I admonish thee to fear God, in whom is the strength of thy undertaking, and the bond of whatsoever thou meditatest to unloose; whatsoever thou hearest, consider it rationally. For I hold thee not to be a fool. Lay hold, therefore, of p. 135 my instructions...
Part Iii. Chapter Ii. Practical : p. 119 CHAPTER II PRACTICAL In writing this section on the practical work I wish my readers to realize that I am writing purely from the alchemist's, not the chemist's viewpoint. I fully realized when commencing this work that my only hope of success was to put on one side for the time being any...
Part Ii. Theoretical. Chapter Iv. The Quintessence : p. 103 CHAPTER IV THE QUINTESSENCE IN DAILY LIFE Since it is not possible for everyone to follow its reactions in the laboratory, I am devoting this chapter to the manifestation of the Quintessence in everyday life, for it is not merely in the laboratory that this vital principle evinces itself...
Part Ii. Theoretical. Chapter Iii. The Quintessence : p. 94 CHAPTER III THE QUINTESSENCE (I) Space, whether inter-planetary, inter-material, or inter-organic, is filled with a subtle fluid or gas, which we call, as did the ancients, Aith-in-Solintaire Aether. This fluid or gas, unchangeable in composition, indestructible, invisible, pervades...
Part Iii. Conclusion : p. 129 CONCLUSION Man's work is not merely to exist on this earth, to scratch ignorantly at its surface, to mutilate Nature in every possible way, to fight and rob his neighbour, but to develop the powers surrounding him, to manipulate those forces that he may truly and deservedly claim his right...
Part I. Historical. Chapter Vii. English : p. 60 CHAPTER VII ENGLISH ALCHEMISTS In England the first known alchemist was "Roger Bacon, "a scholar of outstanding attainment, who was born in Somersetshire in 1214. He made extraordinary progress even in his boyhood studies, and on reaching the required age joined the Franciscan Order...
Part I. Historical. Chapter Viii. The Comte : p. 71 CHAPTER VIII THE COMTE DE ST. GERMAIN It is rather remarkable that in the history of alchemy the Comte de St. Germain has not been mentioned. There is no doubt that he was an expert in the art, but of the many stories related about this remarkable man, his achievements in this particular...
