INDEX.
- Abraham the Jew, 99
- Adfar, an Arabian adept of Alexandria, 53
- Alain of Lisle, 67
- Albertus Magnus, 57
- Alcahest, 157
- Alchemy—Diversity of opinion on the object of alchemical science, 9;
- the avowed object, 10;
- the aim said to be concealed, 11;
- symbolism of the science, 11;
- distinction between alchemy and chemistry, 21;
- alchemy as a factor in the progress of the physical sciences, 27;
- physical nature of the alchemical aim established by the lives and writings of the adepts, 29;
- side issues of alchemical theories, 32;
- application of alchemy to the extension of life, 65;
- modification of the human body by alchemy, 65;
- alchemy the science of the four elements, 93;
- the Seal of God set on the secret of alchemy, 165
- Alfarabi, 48
- Alipili, 22, 23
- Altotas, 221, 234
- Ancient War of the Knights, 43
- Anima Magica Abscondita, 21
- Anonymous adept, 184
- Antimony, Basil Valentine’s preparation for the study of, 17;
- the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, 121
- Aphrodite Urania, 37
- Apono, Peter d’, 88
- Aquinas, St Thomas, 61
- Argent Vive—Reduction of metals into sophic Argent Vive, 87;
- the Medicine of all Metals, 90;
- the first thing to be ascertained in alchemy is the significance of this term, 92
- Arnold de Villanova, 88
- Ars Lulliana, 68
- Avicenna, 51
- Azoth, or The Star in the East, a forthcoming work on the psychic potencies which enter into the higher act of transmutation, on the mysteries of spiritual chemistry, and on the possibilities of practical transcendentalism, 37
- Bacon, Roger, 63
- Balsamo, Joseph, Travels, Adventures, and Imprisonments, 220
- Basil, Valentine, 120
- Belin, Albert, 186
- Berigard of Pisa, 148
- Bird, William, unknown adept, 150
- Böhme, Jacob, 161
- Bono, Peter, 118
- Borri, Guiseppe Francesco, 208
- Botticher, John Frederich, neophyte, 212
- Braccesco, Giovanni, 151
- Busardier, unknown adept, 182
- Butler, 168
- Cagliostro, Count Allesandro, name assumed by Balsamo, 230
- Calcination, an alchemical process, 13, 19
- Canons of Espagnet, 19
- Charnock, Thomas, 148
- Chemistry, said to have no connection with alchemy, 14;
- distinction between alchemy and chemistry, 21, 25;
- a counter view, 44
- Contemplation, a preparation for alchemical practices, 18
- Cremer, John, pseudo-abbot of Westminster, 83
- Dalton, Thomas, 133
- Dee, John, 153
- Delisle, 216
- D’Espagnet, Jean, 170;
- on the obstacles which beset the alchemist, 39
- Diana Unveiled, 180
- Dissolution, an alchemical process, 12
- Dominic, St, said to have been an adept, 58
- Dubois, descendant of Flamel, 114
- Dunstan, St, Book of, 154, 155
- Egyptian Masonry, 245, 250, and Appendix II.
- Elias the Artist, 193
- Eliphas Lévi, 82
- Elixir, the White and Red, 195
- Étoile Flamboyante, 59
- Eugenius Philalethes, 21, 31, 189
- Exaltation, an alchemical process, 32
- Fabre, Pierre Jean, 200
- Ferarius, 92
- Figuier, Louis, alchemical critic, 27, 63
- Fioravanti, Leonardi, 153
- Flamel, Nicholas, 95
- Fontaine, John, 129
- Galip, 55
- Geber, 44
- Generation of Metals, 38, 48, 133
- Goëtic magic, 65
- Gold, 10, 28, 140
- Grand Magisterium, 57, 123
- Grand Secret and Grand Act, 170, 189
- Great Art, 130
- Grimoire, 60
- Gustenhover, 181
- Helmont, J. B. Van, 166
- Helvetius, John Frederick, 201
- Hermetic—Aim of Hermetic science, 29;
- true method of Hermetic interpretation, 30;
- supreme secret of Hermetic philosophy, 66;
- the Hermetic art a gift of God, 68
- Heydon, John, 210
- Hitchcock—His Remarks on Alchemy and the Alchemists, 10, 14, 23, 30
- Interpretation of Hermetic theories, &c.—Hermetic typology, 10;
- the moral method, 13;
- the Psychic method, 122
- Invocation as a preparation for the practice of alchemy, 17
- Isaac of Holland, 123
- Lascaris, 211
- Lavures, alchemical operations, 112
- Light—Veritable light of alchemy, 15;
- vision in the Divine Light, 16;
- light the First Matter of the Magnum Opus, 38
- Magic Chain, 22
- Magnum Opus—The first Matter of the Magnum Opus in its psychic aspect to be revealed in a forthcoming work, Azoth, or The Star in the East, 37;
- processes for the accomplishment of the Magnum Opus, 42;
- these described by Arnold, 90;
- the composition of the Stone is the accomplishment of the Magnum Opus, 152;
- manner of the accomplishment of the Magnum Opus described in “The Adventures of an Unknown Philosopher,” 186
- Maier, Michael, 58, 87, 160
- Man—The concealed subject of every adept, 11;
- the mystic vase of election, 14
- Manuel, Domenico, 215
- Mary of Alexandria, 36
- Matter, the first matter of the Magnum Opus, said to be gold, 28;
- defined as a fifth element, 39;
- one only and self-same thing, 40;
- its true nature not disclosed by the adepts, 41;
- its informing spirit variously adaptable, 43;
- a duplex nature, 53;
- contained in silver and gold, 87;
- the seed of every metal can be reduced into the first matter, 93;
- figured in the book of Rabbi Abraham, 103;
- found by Nicholas Flamel, 106;
- mercury the true first matter, 118;
- the matter of the philosophical stone a viscous water, 119;
- said to be Saturn, or lead, 124;
- is found everywhere, 136;
- may be discovered by studying the best books of the philosophers, 145
- Medicine—Properties of a universal medicine attributed to the Stone, 13;
- the Stone a medicine for metals and man, 32;
- life is prolonged by the stone, 123;
- application of the tincture as a medicine for the human body, 148
- Mercury—Identified with the supernatural, 11;
- obstacles to its discovery, 39;
- sophic mercury described by Avicenna, 52;
- mercury the water of metals, 129;
- a matchless treasure, 197
- Morien, 53
- Morning Star, 36
- Obereit, John Hermann, 219
- One Thing Needful—The exaltation of the cognising faculty, 15
- Orizon Æternitatis, mystical term of Paracelsus, 36
- Palingenesis, 92
- Philalethes, Eirenæus, 187;
- on the Aqua Philosophorum, 22
- Picus de Mirandola, 136
- Psychic Chemistry—A Scheme of Absolute Reconstruction, 36;
- accomplished by the Divine Power in the Soul, 22;
- general observations on spiritual alchemistry, 32-37
- Regnauld, Brother, 63
- Rhasis, 46
- Richthausen, his transmutations with stolen powder, 183
- Ripley, George, 134;
- his description of the Stone, 41;
- supposed to have initiated Thomas Norton, 130
- Romance of the Rose, 90
- Rose Nobles, 82, 84, 86
- Rosicrucians—Had other alchemical objects than metallic transmutations, 36;
- the associates defended by Michael Maier, 160;
- initiation offered by the Rosicrucians to Sendivogius, 179
- Sendivogius, Michael, 175;
- “The New Light of Alchemy” falsely ascribed to this neophyte, 21, 31
- Separation an alchemical process, 12, 17
- Sethon, Alexander, 171
- Son of the Sun, 37
- Sophistication of metals, 62
- Starkey, George, 165, 195, 197, &c.
- Stone of the Philosophers—Said to be a symbol of immortality, 13;
- analogous in its nature to the state of primeval man, 31;
- Transmutation accomplished by its means, 38;
- in appearance a subtle, brown, and opaque earth, 132;
- dark, disesteemed, and grey in colour, 165;
- the seed out of which gold and silver are generated, 201
- Subject of Alchemy—According to Hitchcock, 13;
- according to George Starkey, 24
- Suggestive inquiry concerning the Hermetic Mystery, 9, 14, 17, 24, 30, 34
- Sulphur (Sophic)—Said to symbolise Nature, 11;
- sophic sulphur and the conscience, 12;
- difficulties in its discovery, 39;
- described by Avicenna, 52
- Transmutation—Doubts as to the significance of the term, 9;
- identified with spiritual conversion, 13;
- the physical theory of Transmutation, 38, &c.;
- possibility of the fact, 33
- Transmutations performed by adepts and their emissaries, 84, 94, 106, 118, 133, 136, 148, 156, 167, 168, 177, 178, 181, 183, 184, 185, 196, 201-208, 212-216, 217, 218
- Trévisan, Bernard, 124;
- honoured by Philalethes, 194
- Tschoudy, Baron, 39
- Typology—Possibility of an infinite variety of interpretations of any sequence of typology, 29
- Urbigerus—His alchemical aphorisms, 40
- Vase of the Philosophers—Identified with man, 14;
- its true nature unexplained by adepts, 41;
- described by Geber, 46
- Vaughan, Thomas, 187
- Zachaire, Denis, 140
Turnbull & Spears, Printers, Edinburgh.