Book No. 1

  

Book No. 1
 

In one file :

The Emerald Tablet

Paracelsus (The "Swiss Hermes") :

Alchemy: The Art of Transformation
The Hidden Side of Reality
The Matrix or Mother-Space
The Inner Can be Known by the Outer
The Greater World and the Lesser World
The Two Heavens in Man
The Arcana
Man the Divine Book
The Book of Nature
The Inner Stars of Man
The Preservation of a Thing
Death and the Essence of Alchemy 

Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes) :
The First Operation 
The Invisible Magical Mountain

Eyrænius :

In "The Regimen of Sol"
In "An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King" 

Comments on Letting Conscience Act with Gentleness :

Count Bernard of Treviso 
Ethan Allen Hitchcock

Comments on the Latter Stages of the Work 
An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King :

The Author's Preface 
Of the need of Sulphur for producing this Elixir
Of the Component Principles of the Mercury of the Sages
Of the Chalybs of the Sages
Of the Magnet of the Sages
Of the Chaos of the Sages
Of the Air of the Sages
Of the First Operation--Preparation of Mercury by means of the Flying Eagles
Of the Difficulty and Length of the First Operation
Of the Superiority of our Mercury over All Metals
Of the Sulphur which is in the Mercury of the Sages
Concerning the Discovery of the Perfect Magistery
The Generic Method of Making the Perfect Magistery
Of the Use of Mature Sulphur in the Work of the Elixir 
Of the Circumstantial and Accidental Requisites of our Art
Of the Incidental Purgation of Mercury and Gold
Of the Amalgam of Mercury and Gold, and their respective Proportions
Concerning the Size, Form, Material, and Mode of Securing the Vessel
Of the Furnace, or Athanor of the Sages
Of the Progress of the Work during the First 40 Days
Of the Appearance of Blackness in the Work of the Sun and Moon
Of the Caution required to avoid Burning the Flowers
Of the Regimen of Saturn
Of the Different Regimens of this Work
Of the First Regimen, which is that of Mercury
Of the Regimen of the Second Part, which is that of Saturn
Of the Regimen of Jupiter
Of the Regimen of the Moon
Of the Regimen of Venus
Of the Regimen of Mars
Of the Regimen of the Sun
Of the Fermentation of the Stone
The Imbibition of the Stone
The Multiplication of the Stone
Of Projection
Of the Manifold uses of this Art