Alchemy, iatrochemistry, occult philosophy

The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, Commonly Known as Paracelsus

Name: The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, Commonly Known as Paracelsus
Author: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus)

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Comprehensive collection of Paracelsus' hermetic and alchemical teachings presenting unified system synthesizing medicine, alchemy, magic, and spiritual philosophy. Covers transformation of base metals into gold, creation of medicines and elixirs, nature of spiritual and material forces, correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm, astral magic, talismanic practice, and inner spiritual transformation. Emphasizes practical application of hermetic knowledge for healing, personal transformation, and communion with divine forces. Demonstrates how alchemical work functions simultaneously as material chemistry, psychological transformation, and spiritual illumination.

Also known asParacelsus Hermetic Works · Paracelsus Alchemy · Paracelsus Occult Philosophy

This edition1894

EditionSelected works of Paracelsus (1493-1541), Renaissance physician, alchemist, and occult philosopher. A.E. Waite's scholarly edition (1894) compiling Paracelsus' hermetic and alchemical teachings with translation and contextual commentary. Standard English collection of Paracelsian thought.

AlchemyHermetic philosophyIatrochemistry (Medical Alchemy)Alchemical TransformationElemental PhilosophyTalismanic MagicTheosophyParacelsian MedicineOccult PhilosophyAlchemical distillationHermeticismTransmutation PrinciplesTinctures & ElixirsHermetic traditionAlchemy in MedicineAlchemical symbolism

Contents55 chapters

01Chapter I. : concerning the Arcanum and Quintessence. Chapter II. : concerning the definition of the Subject and Matter of the Tincture of the Philosophers....
02Chapter I. : concerning the Origin of the Philosophers' Stone. Chapter II. : wherein is declared that the Greeks drew a large part of their learning from the...
03Chapter X. : concerning Mumia. Chapter XI. : concerning Dry Salt. Chapter XII. : concei-ning Salt Nitre. Chapter XIII. : concerning the 111 Effects of...
04CHAPTER I. IPHILIPPUS Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombast, say that, by Divine grace, J many ways have been sought to the Tincture of the Philosophers, which...
05CHAPTER III. CON'CERNIXG THE PROCESS OF THE AnXIENTS FOR THE TiNCTURE OF THE Philosophers, and a more compexdious Method by Paracelsus. The old Spagyrists...
06CHAPTER IV. CO.N'CERXING THE PROCESS FOR THE TiNXTURE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS, AS IT IS SHORTENED BY PaRACELSUS. The ancient Spag)-rists would not have required...
07CHAPTER V. Concerning the Conclusion of the Process of the Ancients, MADE BY PaR.VCELSL'S. Lastly, the ancient Spagyrists having placed Lili in a pelican and...
08CHAPTER VI. Concerning the Tr.vnsmutation of Met.\ls by the Perfection of Medicine. If the Tincture of the Philosophers is to be used for transmutation, a...
09CHAPTER VII. Concerning the Renovation of Men. Some of the first and primitive philosophers of Eg)-pt have lived by means of this Tincture for a hundred and...
10CHAPTER 1. Concerning the Origin of the Philosophers' Stone. ADAM was the first inventor of arts, because he had knowledge of all things as well after the...
11CHAPTER II. Wherein is Declared th.\t the Greeks drew a large part OF THEIR Learning from the Egyptians ; and how IT came from them to us. When a son of Noah...
12CHAPTER IV. What M.\gi the Chaldeans, Persians, and Egyptians were. Many persons have endeavoured to investigate and make use of the secret magic of these...
13CHAPTER V. Concerning the Chief and Supreme Essenxe of Things. The Magi in their wisdom asserted that all creatures might be brought to one unified...
14CHAPTER VI. Concerning the Different Errors as to its Discovery and Knowledge. The philosophers have prefixed most occult names to this matter of the Stone,...
15CHAPTER VII. Concerning the Errors of those who seek the Stone in Vegetables. Some alchemists have pressed a juice out of celandine, boiled it to thickness,...
16CHAPTER VIII. Concerning those who have sought the Stone in Animals. They have also, by a name based only on resemblances, called this matter Lac Virginis,...
17CHAPTER IX. Concerning those who have sought the Stone in Minerals. Hereto are added the many ignorant men who suppose the stone to be three-fold, and to be...
18CHAPTER X. Concerning those who h.we sought the Stone .\nd .a.lso Particulars IN Minerals. Some sophists have tried to squeeze out a fixed oil from Mercurj'...
19CHAPTER XL Concerning the true .\nd perfect special arc.\num of Arsenic FOR the W'HITE tincture. Some persons have written that arsenic is compounded of...
20CHAPTER XIL Gener.\l Instruction concerning the .Arcanum of Vitriol .\nd THE Red Tinxture to be extr.\cted from it.* Vitriol is a very noble mineral among...
21CHAPTER XIII. Speci.\l Instruction concerning the Process of Vitriol FOR the Red Tincture. ■ Vitriol contains within itself many muddy and viscous...
22CHAPTER XIV. Concerning the Secrets and Arcana of Antimony, for the Red Tincture, with a view to Transmutation. Antimony is the true bath of gold....
23CHAPTER XV. Concerning the Projection to be made by the Mystery AND Arcanum of Antimony. No precise weight can be assigned in this work of projection, though...
24CHAPTER XVI. Concerning the Universal Matter of the Philosophers' Stone. After the mortification of vegetables, they are transmuted, by the concurrence of...
25CHAPTER X\II. Concerning the Prep.\ration of the M.^tter for the Philosophic Stone. What Nature principally requires is that its own philosophic man should...
26CHAPTER XIX. CONXERXIXG THE SECRET FiRE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. This is a well-known sententious saying- of the philosophers, " Let fire and Azoc suffice thee."...
27CHAPTER XX. Concerning the Ferment of the Philosophers, and the Weight. Philosophers have laboured greatly in the art of ferments and of fermentations, which...
28CHAPTER I. Concerning Simple Fire. IN the first place, it is necessary to state clearly what this Art comprises, what is its subject, and what its...
29CHAPTER IV. CON'CERNING THE SPIRIT AND TiNCTURE OF LUNA. After having spoken with sufficient clearness concerning the tincture of Sol, it remains to put...
30CHAPTER V. Concerning the Spirit of Venus. We have before made mention of a White Spirit, or colourless Tincture. Now we proceed to speak of a red spirit,...
31CHAPTER VI. Concerning the Spirit of Mars. Speaking of the Spirit of Mars, this comes from a more dense and combustible mixture of the elements than was the...
32CHAPTER VIII. Concerning the Spirit of Saturn. The spirit of Saturn is concrete and formed from a dry, dark, cold admixture of elements. Hence it results...
33CHAPTER I. From what Tinctures and Leavens are Made. Whoever wishes to have a tincture of the metals, must take Philosophers' Mercury, and project it to its...
34CHAPTER II. Concerning the Conjunction of the Man with the Woman. In order that the Philosophers' Mercury and the quick mercury may be joined, and this...
35CHAPTER V. Concerning the Signs which appe.ar in the Union of Conjunction. When the regimen of the fire is moderated, the matter is by degrees moved to...
36CHAPTER VII. Concerning the Augmentation or the Multiplying of Tinctures. When you wish to augment or to multiply the tincture which you have found, join it...
37CHAPTER I. Concerning the Building of the Furn.\ce, with the Fire. Mercurius Hermes Trismegistus says that he who perfects this Art creates a new world. For...
38CHAPTER III. CONCERXIXG THE COPULATION OF THE MaN WITH THE WOMAN, ETC. When you have placed the husband and the wife in the matrimonial bed, in order that he...
39CHAPTER VI. Concerning the Bud appearing in the Glass. When you have seen the difTerent colours, it is necessary that you persevere in the work, by...
40CHAPTER I. Concerning the Generation of Minerals. When I had most carefully read through the writings of the ancients concerning the generation of minerals,...
41CHAPTER II. Concerning the Ultimate and Primal Matter of Minerals. The first principle with God was the ultimate matter which He Himself made to be the...
42CHAPTER IV. Concerning the Fruits .\xd the H.\rvest of Minerals. Just as all the fruits of the earth have their harvest and autumn on the earth and in the...
43CHAPTER V. Concerning the Death of the Elements, especially of Water. Elements die, as men die, on account of the corruption in them. As water at its death,...
44CHAPTER VIII. Concerning the Natural Dispenser of Minerals, and His Ministers. In the manufacture of minerals by men for preparing them and adapting them for...
45CHAPTER IX. Concerning the Virtues and Properties of Salts in Alchemy and IN Medicine. God, in His goodness and greatness, willed that man should be led by...
46CHAPTER X. Concerning Muri.\. I just now mentioned two kinds of Salt, Muria and dry Salt. First of all, Muria has the greatest power of drying up all...
47CHAPTER XII. Concerning S.\lt Nitre. There is also another kind of salt which is called nitre. t It is composed naturally of the natural salt of animals'...
48CHAPTER XIII. Concerning the III Effects of Nutrimental S.\lt. All salt used with food which has not been digested by the stomach, which also on being...
49CHAPTER XV. Concerning the Species of Vitriol and the Tests of it. The species of Vitriol are as varied as the mines or sources from which it is extracted....
50CHAPTER XVI. Concerning the Virtues of Vitriol, Crude or C.\lcined, in Medicine. For the most severe pains in the stomach and discomforts arising from the...
51CHAPTER XVII. Concerning the Threei-old Sulphlk of Minerals. Sulphur should properly be called the resin of the earth, and in it are latent numberless...
52CHAPTER XVIII. Concerning Arsenic used for Alchemy.* It seems right to connect Arsenic generically with Sulphurs rather than with Mercuries, and to treat it...
53CHAPTER XIX. CoxcERNiNG Quicksilver. Having dealt with salts and sulphurs, we come to Quicksilver. This cannot be properly termed a metal, but rather a...
54CHAPTER XXI. Concerning Met.\ls free by Nature, Perfect .\nd Imperfect ; and FIRST concerning SaTURN, OR LeAD. Saturn has obtained a body the blackest and...
55chapter I said that Nature had incorporated salt in the liquid of the earth. From this salt all growing things have proceeded, and it is the balsam of salt...