Synopses & Reviews
This work represents a distinctive school of alchemy -- it belonged to a period that had inherited a bitter experience of the failures, impostures, and misery surrounding the "Magnum Opus" and its mystical quest. The treatises contained in this volume are by the authors of historical legend: John de Mehung, Nicholas Flamel, Basil Valentine, Eirenaeus Philalethes, Helvetius, Michael Maier, Michael Sendivogius, Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas, and Basilius Valentinus. Illustrated.
Synopsis
This one-volume edition contains twenty two of the most celebrated ancient alchemical texts. Affords students of the secret doctrines a unique opportunity to acquire these legendary texts in English. Originally published in 1678 in Latin as two volumes, Waite's scholarly 1893 English translation was designed to supply a representative collection of alchemical writers, and to instruct all Disciples of the Sopho-Spagyric Art on how to find and hold the Philosopher's Stone.
About the Author
A.E. Waite (1857-1942) is one of the best-known authors and translators of magic and the occult. He is the creator of the Rider-Waite tarot and is the author of several books including Book of Black Magic and Pictorial Keys to the Tarot.