Occult & Divination - Alchemy

This book provides an excellent introduction for the serious student of alchemy via the works of Count Michael Maier (1568 - 1622) one of the giants of the Alchemical Renaissance of the early 17th Century. Maier's Atalanta Fugiens and Themis Aurea transcend their era and continue to inspire today's students of alchemy. But Maier's many other works remain virtually unknown - to our loss for he was a champion of Rosicrucianism as well as a spiritual alchemist of the highest calibre. Reverend J.B. Craven had access to important source works on Michael Maier and his writings many of which were unavailable in English. In this collection first published in 1914 Craven provides a biography of Maier; traces his career as a physician; his associations with Dr Robert Fludd Sir William Paddy and Sir Thomas Smith; and his pursuit of alchemy as both a science for transmuting lead into gold and a metaphor for spiritual attainment. This book is the only one to analyse all of Maier's work in depth and demystify many of the alchemical symbols and allusions in Maier's texts. R.A. Gilbert's Foreword details J.B. Craven's life writings and his role in illuminating the mysterious practice of alchemy.

In 1989, while attempting to extract precious minerals from his property, a wealthy Arizonan obtained a mysterious white material that initially defied scientific attempts to identify it. After several years of testing, this substance was revealed to consist of gold and platinum - but in a form unknown to modern science. Further research showed that this powder, which had, also, been discovered to possess marvellous healing powers, contained monatomic forms of precious metals whose electron units had been altered to no longer display the physical, chemical or electrical properties of the original elements. This substance, Robert Cox shows, bears eerie resemblance to the ultimate quest of the alchemists: the elixir of immortality.

The mysterious material-spiritual science of alchemy was once pervasive throughout the ancient world, spanning the globe from China and India to Egypt and mediaeval Europe. In THE ELIXIR OF IMMORTALITY, Robert Cox reviews the alchemical lore of these traditions and the procedures each used to produce this fabulous elixir. Using his own alchemical research, Cox then reveals secrets that have been kept hidden for millennia uncovered in his own modern-day quest to rediscover this long-sought elixir of life.

· Provides an overview of alchemical practices in the ancient world -
from Europe to China
· Reveals the alchemical secrets for creating this elixir in clear
scientific language

Alchemy is the ancient sacred science concerned with the mysteries of life and consciousness as reflected through all Nature. It is a harmonious blending of physical and subtle forces which lifts the subject, whether it be man or metal, to a more evolved state of being. THE WAY OF THE CRUCIBLE is a ground-breaking modern manual on the art of Alchemy that draws on both modern scientific technology and ancient methods.

A laboratory scientist and chemist, Bartlett provides an overview of how practical alchemy works along with treatises on Astrology, Qabalah, Herbalism and minerals, as they relate to Alchemy. He, also, explains what the ancients really meant when they used the term “Philosopher's Stone” and describes practical methods toward its achievement.

THE WAY OF THE CRUCIBLE provides directions for a more advanced understanding of the mineral work - what some consider the true domain of Alchemy.