A suggestive inquiry into the hermetic mystery with a dissertation on the more celebrated of the alchemical philosophers ... / [Mary Anne Atwood].

  • Mary Anne Atwood
Date:
1850
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    CONTENTS. PART I. ‘AN EXOTERIC VIEW OF THE PROGRESS AND THEORY OF ALCHEMY. CHAPTER I.—A Pretiminary AccouNT OF THE Hermetic PHILOSOPHY, WITH THE MORE SALIENT POINTS OF ITs PuBLic History—gathered from the best extant Authorities, with notices of the works of various writers, ancient and modern, in succession, on the subject of Alchemy—their evidence in support of the art of gold-making and transmutation.—Page 3. CHAPTER II.—Or tut Turory or TRANSMUTATION IN GENERAL, AND OF THE First Marrer—showing the true basis on which the rational possibility of Transmutation rests; with Definitions from Albertus Magnus, Aquinas, Friar Bacon, Ray- mond Lully, Arnold Di-Villa-Nova, Synesius and others, descriptive of the Hermetic Material— with some suggestions additional concerning the Ethereal Nature and analogous phenomena of Light.— Page 68. CHAPTER II].—Tue Goutpen Treatise or Hermes: TRISMEGISTUS CONCERNING THE PuysicaL SECRET OF THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE, IN SEVEN Szc- TIoNs—esteemed one of the best and oldest pieces of Alchemical Philosophy extant; com-