Laboratory, symbolic, and spiritual alchemy
Alchemy Texts
Alchemy texts and commentaries covering transmutation, medicine, allegory, spiritual regeneration, and the symbolic language of the great work.
- Texts
- 17
- Authors
- 11
- Range
- 250 to 1929
Overview
The main subjects, texts, and practices represented in this collection.
Alchemy brings together laboratory practice, medicinal theory, symbolic allegory, and spiritual transmutation. These texts show how alchemical language moves between material experiment, religious imagination, and inner transformation.
- Laboratory and medicinal alchemy.
- Christian, Hermetic, and spiritual alchemical interpretation.
- Symbolic works where alchemy is the organizing frame, not a passing metaphor.
Texts
Key source texts and related works for studying Alchemy.
The Twelve Keys
The Triumphant Chariot of Antimony
Aurora
The White Spark
Bygone Beliefs
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
Splendor Solis
The Chemical Wedding
Corpus Hermeticum
Rosicrucian Manifestos
The Signature of All Things
The Magus (Vol 1)
More Alchemy Texts
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy
The New Pearl of Great Price
Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers
The Hermetic Museum
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Kabbalah and Qabalah texts on the Tree of Life, divine names, emanation, symbolism, magic, meditation, and esoteric biblical interpretation.
Folk Magic
Folk magic texts and practical traditions covering charms, cures, household rites, prayers, talismans, and vernacular magical practice.
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