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Originally written in 1850 under the title ‘A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery‘, Hermetica Alchemica by Mary Anne Atwood is one of the first published compositions on the comparable ideas between alchemy and spirituality.
Delving deep into the concepts of both the esoteric and the exoteric mysteries, Ms. Atwood takes us on a monumental exploration of the Hermetic Art.
From the theory of transmutation and the physical secrets of the Philosopher’s Stone, Atwood assimilates the Alchemical art of mind and matter into a syncretic whole.
With the publication of this book in the nineteenth-century, it has influenced Madame Blavatsky, A.E. Waite and countless others in the Hermetic tradition. Over the years since publication, it continues to be one of the primary cornerstones in works of occultism concerned with turning not only material lead into gold, but also to enable the individual to advance upward into the True Gold of the metaphysician.
VOLUME I:
INTRODUCTORY
PREFACE
– PART I – AN EXOTERIC VIEW OF THE PROGRESS AND THEORY OF ALCHEMY
CHAPTER I – A Preliminary Account of the Hermetic Philosophy, with the more Salient Points of its Public History
CHAPTER II – Of the Theory of Transmutation in General, and of the First Matter
CHAPTER III – The Golden Treatise of Hermes Trismegistus Concerning the Physical Secret of the Philosophers’ Stone, in Seven Sections
– PART II – A MORE ESOTERIC CONSIDERATION OF THE HERMETIC ART AND ITS MYSTERIES
CHAPTER I – Of the True Subject of the Hermetic Art and its Concealed Root.
CHAPTER II – Of the Mysteries
CHAPTER III – The Mysteries Continued
CHAPTER IV – The Mysteries Concluded
VOLUME II:
– PART III – CONCERNING THE LAWS AND VITAL CONDITIONS OF THE HERMETIC EXPERIMENT
CHAPTER I – Of the Experimental Method and Fermentations of the Philosophic Subject According to Paracelsian Alchemists and Others
CHAPTER II – A Further Analysis of the Initial Principle and Its Education into Light
CHAPTER III – Of the Manifestations of the FIRST Matter, AND ITS INFORMATION BY LIGHT
CHAPTER IV – Of the Mental Requisites and Impediments Incidental to Individuals, Either as Masters or Students, in the Hermetic Art
– PART IV – THE HERMETIC PRACTICE
CHAPTER I – Of the Vital Purification, Commonly Called the Gross Work
CHAPTER II – Of the Philosophic or Subtle Work
CHAPTER III – The Six Keys of Eudoxus
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
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