| PAGE | |
| Preface | 5 |
| Introductory Essay on the True Principles and Nature of the Magnum Opus, and on its Relation to Spiritual Chemistry | 9 |
| On the Physical Theory and Practice of the Magnum Opus | 38 |
LIVES OF THE ALCHEMISTS.
| Geber | 44 |
| Rhasis | 46 |
| Alfarabi | 48 |
| Avicenna | 51 |
| Morien | 53 |
| Albertus Magnus | 57 |
| Thomas Aquinas | 61 |
| Roger Bacon | 63 |
| Alain of Lisle | 67 |
| Raymond Lully | 68 |
| Arnold de Villanova | 88 |
| Jean de Meung | 90 |
| The Monk Ferarius | 92 |
| Pope John XXII. | 93 |
| Nicholas Flamel | 95 |
| Peter Bono | 118 |
| Johannes de Rupecissa | 119 |
| Basil Valentine | 120 |
| Isaac of Holland | 123 |
| Bernard Trévisan | 124 |
| John Fontaine | 129 |
| Thomas Norton | 130 |
| Thomas Dalton | 133 |
| Sir George Ripley | 134 |
| Picus de Mirandola | 136 |
| Paracelsus | 137 |
| Denis Zachaire | 140 |
| Berigard of Pisa | 148 |
| Thomas Charnock | 148 |
| Giovanni Braccesco | 151 |
| Leonardi Fioravanti | 153 |
| John Dee | 153 |
| Henry Khunrath | 159 |
| Michael Maier | 160 |
| Jacob Böhme | 161 |
| J. B. van Helmont | 166 |
| Butler | 168 |
| Jean D’Espagnet | 170 |
| Alexander Sethon | 171 |
| Michael Sendivogius | 175 |
| Gustenhover | 181 |
| Busardier | 182 |
| Anonymous Adept | 184 |
| Albert Belin | 186 |
| Eirenæus Philalethes | 187 |
| Pierre Jean Fabre | 200 |
| John Frederick Helvetius | 201 |
| Guiseppe Francesco Borri | 208 |
| John Heydon | 210 |
| Lascaris | 211 |
| Delisle | 216 |
| John Hermann Obereit | 219 |
| Travels, Adventures, and Imprisonments of Joseph Balsamo | 220 |
| An Alphabetical Catalogue of Works on Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy | 274 |
| Appendix | 307 |
| Index | 313 |