Alchemy: Ancient and Modern Being a Brief Account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and Their Relations, to Mysticism on the One Hand, and to Recent Discoveries in Physical Science on the Other Hand; Together with Some Particulars Regarding the Lives and Teachings of the Most Noted Alchemists

§ =85.= Correctly speaking, there is no such thing as “Modern Alchemy”; not that Mysticism is dead, or that men no longer seek to apply the principles of Mysticism to phenomena...

§ =71.= Chemistry as distinct from Alchemy and Iatro-chemistry commenced with Robert Boyle (see plate 15), who first clearly recognised that its aim is neither the transmutation...

§ =46.= That erratic genius, =Paracelsus=--or, to give him his correct name, Philip (?) Aureole (?) =Theophrast Bombast von Hohenheim=--whose portrait forms the frontispiece to...

§ =29.= Having now considered the chief points in the theory of Physical Alchemy, we must turn our attention to the lives and individual teachings of the alchemists themselves....

§ =1.= Alchemy is generally understood to have been that art whose end was the transmutation of the so-called base metals into gold by means of an ill-defined something called t...

§ =61.= The alchemists were untiring in their search for the Stone of the Philosophers, and we may well ask whether they ever succeeded in effecting a real transmutation. That m...

§ =14.= It must be borne in mind when reviewing the theories of the alchemists, that there were a number of phenomena known at the time, the superficial examination of which wou...

Most of the alchemists who claimed knowledge of the Philosopher’s Stone or the _materia prima_ necessary for its preparation, generally kept its nature most secret, and spoke on...

§ 85. “Modern Alchemy” 117 § 86. X-Rays and Becquerel Rays 117 § 87. The Discovery of Radium 118 § 88. Chemical Properties of Radium 119 § 89. The Radioactivity of Radium 120 §...

§ 71. The Birth of Modern Chemistry 94 § 72. The Phlogiston Theory 94 § 73. Boyle and the Definition of an Element 96 § 74. The Stoichiometric Laws 96 § 75. Dalton’s Atomic Theo...

§ 14. Supposed Proofs of Transmutation 17 § 15. The Alchemistic Elements 18 § 16. Aristotle’s Views regarding the Elements 19 § 17. The Sulphur-Mercury Theory 20 § 18. The Sulph...

§ 1. The Aim of Alchemy 1 § 2. The Transcendental Theory of Alchemy 2 § 3. Failure of the Transcendental Theory 3 § 4. The Qualifications of the Adept 4 § 5. Alchemistic Languag...

§ 46. Paracelsus 58 § 47. Views of Paracelsus 60 § 48. Iatro-chemistry 61 § 49. The Rosicrucian Society 62 § 50. Thomas Charnock 65 § 51. Andreas Libavius 66 § 52. Edward Kelley...

§ 29. Hermes Trismegistos 39 § 30. The Smaragdine Table 40 § 31. Zosimus of Panopolis 42 § 32. Geber 42 § 33. Other Arabian Alchemists 44 § 34. Albertus Magnus 44 § 35. Thomas A...

§ 61. Did the Alchemists achieve the _Magnum Opus_? 81 § 62. The Testimony of van Helmont 82 § 63. The Testimony of Helvetius 83 § 64. Helvetius obtains the Philosopher’s Stone...