Table of Contents
Foreword Robert Allen Bartlett xi
Introduction James Wasserman xv
Preface xvii
Ora xxi
Overview of Alchemy xxiii
Part 1 Theory
1 The Aspects of Alchemy 3
2 Cosmology 17
3 Time 23
4 Microcosm: The Body and Its Composition 31
5 Inner Practice 35
6 Tabula Smaragdina 41
Part 2 Practice
7 The Basics of Alchemy 47
8 The Preparatory Work 55
9 The Art of Distillation 59
10 The Purification of Salts: Calcination, Crystallization, and Sublimation 63
11 Further Work with Water and Alcohol 65
12 The Herbal Work 69
13 Plants as Medicines and Initiatory Substances 85
14 The Mineral Work 87
15 The Aurum Potabile 93
16 Opus Magnum 95
17 A Parting Contemplation 97
Appendix 1 Technique and Equipment 101
Appendix 2 Plants and Planets Ill
Bibliography 119
Notes to the Text 124