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Liber I · Alchemy

Liber I

Alchemy

The Great Work, from Zosimos and Jabir to Paracelsus, Newton and Jung.

Alchemy was at once a laboratory craft, a natural philosophy and, for many of its practitioners, a spiritual discipline. This section follows it from Greco-Egyptian Alexandria through the Arabic Jabirian corpus and the Latin West to the chymistry of Boyle and Newton, and then into the psychological readings of C. G. Jung. Articles explain the Philosopher's Stone, the tria prima of salt, sulphur and mercury, the colour stages of the Work, alchemical emblems, and Chinese external and internal alchemy.

Chapters

  1. Introduction3 articles
  2. I.Alchemical Symbols3 articles
  3. II.Alchemists4 articles
  4. III.Chinese Alchemy3 articles
  5. IV.The Great Work3 articles
  6. V.History of Alchemy4 articles
  7. VI.Spiritual Alchemy4 articles

The primary texts

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On the shelf

All 19 books
Cover of Alchemy & Mysticism Alchemy & MysticismAlexander Roob Alchemy Tried in the FireWilliam R. Newman Alchemy Tried in the FireWilliam R. Newman & Lawrence M. Principe AlchemyJohannes Fabricius AlchemyJohannes Fabricius Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567–1625)Didier Kahn Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567–1625)Didier Kahn Aula LucisThomas Vaughan Aula LucisThomas Vaughan Cover of A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery A Dictionary of Alchemical ImageryLyndy Abraham The Forge and the CrucibleMircea Eliade The Forge and the CrucibleMircea Eliade Hermès TrismégisteDidier Kahn Hermès TrismégisteDidier Kahn Cover of The Hermetic Museum The Hermetic MuseumA. E. Waite The Janus Faces of GeniusBetty Jo Teeter Dobbs The Janus Faces of GeniusBetty Jo Teeter Dobbs Cover of Mysterium Coniunctionis Mysterium ConiunctionisC. G. Jung Newton the AlchemistWilliam R. Newman Newton the AlchemistWilliam R. Newman ParacelsusCharles Webster ParacelsusCharles Webster ParacelsusAndrew Weeks ParacelsusAndrew Weeks Cover of Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature Promethean AmbitionsWilliam R. Newman Cover of Psychology and Alchemy Psychology and AlchemyC. G. Jung The Sceptical ChymistRobert Boyle The Sceptical ChymistRobert Boyle Cover of The Secrets of Alchemy The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-GeberWilliam R. Newman The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-GeberWilliam R. Newman

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