COLLECTANEA CHEMICA
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Being
Certain Select Treatises on Alchemy and Hermetic Medicine
Eirenaeus Philalethes, Dr. Francis Anthony, George Starkey, Sir George Ripley, and a Work by an Anonymous Unknown Which is Attributed to Edward Kelly
From the editor:
The Hermetic Tracts comprised in this volume are printed from a quarto manuscript *itself a transcript from an older but now untraceable work belonging to the celebrated collection of the late Mr. Frederick Hockley, who was well known among modern students of the secret sciences, not only for the resources of his Hermetic library, but for his practical acquaintance with man, *branches of esoteric lore, and for his real or reputed connection with the numerous but unavowed associations which grow, as at anterior periods, are supposed to dispense initiation into occult knowledge. While practically the reprint is verbatim, it would have been a needless source of confusion, in a subject, which is already sufficiently confused, to have reproduced the obsolete orthography, the superfluous capitals, the perplexing parentheses, the unnecessary italics, and the chaotic punctuation of the original. These, there-fore, have been abandoned in favour of a simpler method But the flavour of antiquity is sometimes valued for its age rather than its excellence; and partly in deference to this prejudice, there has been no attempt to reconstruct the style of these old writings. Moreover, though somewhat barbarous and entangled, it does not present sufficient difficulties to justify a drastic purgation.
Containing:
THE SECRET OF THE IMMORTAL LIQUOR ALKAHEST THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS THE BOSOM BOOK OF SIR GEORGE RIPLEY THE PREPARATION OF THE SOPHIC MERCURY
Publisher: Holmes Publications [verbatim, in a scholarly exposition of topic, in an academic fashion, authoritative dissertation].
Special Interest: Alchemy, Advanced Study & Application, Occult, Magick, Ritual, Sorcery. Our Price: $^^^119623^^^
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