THE SECRET TRADITION IN Development and Records

ARTHUR EDWARD

Volume 6

Routledge R Taylor Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK CONTENTS

PREFACE

Of books and of affirmed Transmission as a Secret of the Literature and its and to extent it be explicable as emanating an Initiating about this that the Alchemical Secret to Spiritual Science and not to an Art of of the Evidence, if any, as the of this ...... xv

CHAPTER I

ALCHEMY AND LIFE Extent of Alchemical of Allegory and to conceal a Mystic Science of the posed of the Searchings of Jacob Stone of Philosophy and Christ as the Work of the Tincture and Seal of God and the Second Transmutation of Metals in the Light of Divine Second Witness on Spiritual Kentish Theosophist Robert True and and the Gold of Life communicated by Spiritual and Man as its Body of Adeptship Soul and of and Natural Stone ....

CHAPTER II

MODERN VIEWS ON THE MYSTERY Böhme and and Experimental next stage of the of the tive of the on vi CONTENTS

Alchemy and as a Key to the Hermetic Method of with the Source of of the Hermetic Object with that of the Ancient Examination and of this identity of in Alchemy and do not appear in their as of Divine general concern of their Religious and Devotional Stone and its alleged Spiritual Generation ...... ••••

CHAPTER III

FÜRTHER ON GOLD Analogical Speculations and of Eliphas Search for the concerning the Azoth of the to a Traditional Great Magical Will in American on Concealed Subject of Hermetic Culture of Triune of Human and Divine New Birth, New Condition of Being and Salt, Sulphur and Of Conscience understood Still Voice in Life and Immortality and the of and End of the Reservation in this Speculation t in for this reason as as on other production of of Jacob Böhme unknown or ignored by on Alchemy and Words on the Way of the Of Swedenberg as a Hermetic on the Mystery of Artis ..... 33

CHAPTER IV

ANCIENT HERMETIC AND THE WAY THE Hermes as Protagonist of Broad of the and Destiny of and the Virtue of the Path of Devotion and Path of Way of Birth in God and Tradition of Its Doctrine of Alleged Practice and the Theory 48 CONTENTS vii

CHARTER V ALCHEMY IN CHINA

Classical Mythology as a of the Berthelot on Alchemy in Silence of the Alleged of the Art in of William A. P. of Theory and Symbolism in the Far East and the Material and Spiritual on the Point of question work on the Lore of Texts on the Elixir of of Edkins ...... 55

CHAPTER VI

THE OF BYZANTINE ALCHEMY The Four Periods of Alchemical Line of Trans­ Berthelot's Collection of Greek Papyrus of Artisan's Debt of Greek Alchemy it the Processes of the Text after another of Transmutation developed from Sophisticating Elements in Greek and Content of the Byzantine Art as Sacred and with Latin Its high importance in the in of its Lexicon of Fragments of Philosophical Address of Isis to The Diplosis of Discourse referred to The School of on The Sacred Works of Zosimus the obvious Two Sciences and Two Final of Tract of supposititious Moses on The Eight of the Christian ferences from the Byzantine Position of Berthelot on the Critical Side ...... 62

CHAPTER VII

AND SYRIAC ALCHEMY Later Collections of of Technical Processes to Translations of pseudo-Democritus and Arabian Short Examination of Syriac cerning Fixed Philosophical Pro­ of Work of viii CONTENTS

Alleged Mystical Arabian Text and its of Arabian Book of Book of Book of the The Arabian Djaber or Matter of the Work, according to this Two Two Philosophical of the Principle of Perfect Stone and its on Syriac and Arabian Alchemy with special reference to the Arabian Geber

CHAPTER VIII

EARLY LATIN LITERATURE The story of original and with the Byzantine Documentary Its connection with Greek on and his Book of Book of the Three Memoirs presented by of the Servant de and its in and the Texts to alleged of Liber Secretus of Fire in Matter of the Work on Treatise De on the Perfect The Philosophical Latin Sunt of Perfection of the Witness to the Great Work . . 103

CHAPTER IX

THE LATER CHAIN OF HERMES

Mythical in Latin Bacon on the Power of Art and of all of the Process of the Great two Medicine of place in ascription of Alchemical Works in his forged de pseudo­ Thomas de concerning his preferred against bim— His Alchemical Work according to Arnold—Raymond Thesis on the CONTENTS ix

PAGE Transmutation of First quality of his Bono and Janus New Pearl of Great testimony on the end of the and John de Fontaine 120

CHAPTER X

THE MYTH OF The Alleged of a Paris Book of Abraham the Pictorial Designs and Revelation of the Great Quest of its to with a Jewish of the First Mastery of Story of on the Premises of and Symbolic Written Will and that of his Hostile Criticism of his of its first Early unsatisfactory of his alleged Alchemical of Paul on the Historical Side of the Flamel and Memorial of Bernard Quest of of a thousand Monk of years of Monk and his Study of Success Written Record and its 137

CHAPTER XI

THE CHARIOT OF BASEL VALENTINE His own story concerning the Way of autobio­ graphical about of and with Tholden and tion of probable for placing it in the Sixteenth Triumphal Chariot of importance in the History of Preparations for on the claims of Spiritual on the Alchemical Tincture and its Fixed Gold of Trans­ mutation 163 CONTENTS

CHAPTER XII

PARACELSUS A New Spirit of the two Isaacs of Trismosin as an alleged teacher of His Quest in Mines and His alchemical Operations in Golden celsus on the First Matter and its mentary on the of Secret Subject of The Stone according to A Perfect Equation of Soul of the Path of Tincture of and Ultimate and Jacob Böhme . . .

CHAPTER XIII

and textual Problems of Alchemical Memoire of Denys Studies at Bordeaux and Toulouse Book of Alchemical abandoned for Alchemy Itahan Aged zealous Zachaire proceeds to Greek and his Summons from the King of of a Natural Doubts and discovery in Rosarium Projection on Success arranges his Leonardi and his Study of this account of the Great as a Master of Augurellus ...... 188

CHAPTER XIV

FAMOTTS ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS

The Collection of of Philalethes on this Compound of Stone according to Twelve Ordinal of book on the Increase of Riches —The of of of other of Philosophy—The Camp of Work of John Work of Carpenter English Texts 202 CONTENTS xi

CHAPTER XV

ALCHEMY AND EXPLOITATION

An Aspiration of Edward Birth and early Charges against refuge in Alchemical and White Treasures secured by Introduction to Dr. Calling of as Skryer to and Mysterious Book of St. Adalbert Visits to and Kelley proceed with this Prince to at and The Emperor Rudolph receives counsels from King of Pope Dee and Kelley from Kelley " opens the Great to Dr. of Kelley's and Kelley of returns to later Book of St. of Arthur Dee and Sir Thomas and Study of Kelley's .... 217

CHAPTER XVI

THE NEW LIGHT OF ALCHEMY The New Light and the Open Wreck on the Scottish visit to Transmuta­ tion of convinces Wolfgang Dienheim and Jacob Strasbourg and of Elector of and of of the inherits Seton's the widow of the New Rudolph at at the Court of the King of exhaustion of the of Rosicrucian Brother- of of the New Story of Gustenhover ...... 237

CHAPTER XVII

THE REFORMATION AND GERMAN ALCHEMY Reform of and Reform of and Spiritual of xii CONTENTS

TAGE Stone of Stone and and aspects of the Stone of Stone Doctrine of Regeneration— The Stones confused cedent to texts of the Water Sione of the Heavenly and Earthly His Golden and Hermetic devotion to the von alchemical Teacher in Great Work and the creation of the Greater Stone and the Spirit of and as a Precursor of Böhme

CHAPTER XVIII

THOMAS VAUGHAN The Rosy Cross in reflections in as an of Lumen de as his chief Spiritual or Divine on Lapis Spiritual of Secret Divine in The Fire-Spirit of of Christ in the Supernatural and Return of the Ether and its Divine interblending of Spiritual and Physical Things notions of the First of Physical Things and the Soul's of a New Hidden as and also Hermetic His Secret of Art and Gift of Exotic Letter from the Rosy Law of Key is Christ 265

CHAPTER XIX

THE COSMOPOLITE

recent proposal to identify with George and rejection of this mony of concerning Open attainment of the Great perils and Stone Gift of it was vouchsafed to him~His with other debt to other works to which Final Story of cerning and his alleged 292 CONTENTS xiii

CHAPTER XX

JOHN FREDERICK PAGE Evidence of Transmutations by who were not Helvetius and his Golden account of Elias the The Stone second visit of of receives a fragment of the mysterious and Process of the promises to visit Helvetius a third Promise is not in his wife's applied to the concerning the of Baptist van testimony to the fact of the account of on the evidence of Helvetius 307

CHAPTER XXI

AN ALCHEMIST OF

The Story of alleged at presents Powder of to J. F. Who transmutes honoured by the Elector of Exhausts the a employs Pasch to save also escapes and Later History of persons enriched by the Powder of own alleged Manuel and other Tales of and centuries of the Physical as a Work of Art 320

CHAPTER XXII

THE MYSTIC OF ALCHEMY

The chaos of Religious Reform in new spirit in Four Stones of Elias of his mission of an Operative of an Succession of historical Records on the Spiritual notions of Golden Age Gloria and his Lucerna The G. Rosy Cross in the Eighteenth Secret from various Secret pregnant xiv CONTENTS

The Birth and the Development of Spiritual it connotes mental conceptions or Inward Rosy Cross in Alchemy as a Way of of the Subject .... 334

APPENDICES

I. IN 1850 360 II. ALCHEMY 377 III. RECENT EDITIONS OF THE Suggestive Inquiry .... 395 IV. THE AND Janitor ..... 398 INDEX 409