ALCHEMY REDISCOVERED AND RESTORED

By Archibald Cockren

Philadelphia, David McKay
1941
With an account of the extraction of the seed 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 Sassoon

CONTENTS

PART I

HISTORICAL

CHAPTER
I BEGINNINGS OF ALCHEMY
II EARLY EUROPEAN ALCHEMISTS
III THE STORY OF NICHOLAS FLAMEL
IV BASIL VALENTINE
V PARACELSUS
VI ALCHEMY IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
VII ENGLISH ALCHEMISTS
VIII THE COMTE DE ST. GERMAIN

PART II

THEORETICAL

I THE SEED OF METALS
II THE SPIRIT OF MERCURY
III THE QUINTESSENCE
IV THE QUINTESSENCE IN DAILY LIFE

PART III

I THE MEDICINE FROM METALS
II PRACTICAL
CONCLUSION
'AUREUS' OR THE GOLDEN TRACTATE
THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION OF HERMES

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