COLLECTANEA CHEMICA - A COLLECTION OF ALCHEMY

Alchemy was an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition practiced throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia, originating in Greco-Roman Egypt in the first few centuries.

Alchemists attempted to purify, mature, and perfect certain materials. Common aims were chrysopoeia, the transmutation of "base metals" (e.g., lead) into "noble metals" (particularly gold); the creation of an elixir of immortality; the creation of panaceas able to cure any disease; and the development of an alkahest, a universal solvent. The perfection of the human body and soul was thought to permit or result from the alchemical magnum opus] and, in the Hellenistic and Western mystery tradition, the achievement of gnosis. In Europe, the creation of a philosopher's stone was variously connected with all of these projects.

Collectanea Chemica is a short collection of some curious Alchemical treatises, including the Philosopher's Stone, which was republished by A.E. Waite in 1893. According to the preface, Waite found these in a manuscript belonging to a collector of occult books.

Contents of this Alchemy app include:

⚗️Prefatory Note

⚗️The Secret of the Immortal Liquor called Alkahest or Ignis-Aqua

⚗️Aurum Potabile: Or the Receipt of Dr. Fr. Antonie

⚗️The Oil of Sulphur

⚗️The Philosopher's Stone

-The Preface

-Chapter I. The Introduction

-Chapter II. Of the Vegetable Tincture

-Chapter III. Of the Uses of the Vegetable Tinctures

-Chapter IV. Of the Metallic Tincture

-Chapter V. Of the Second Matter, or Seed in Metals

-Chapter VI. Of the Dissolution and Extraction of the Seed in Metals

-Chapter VII. Of the Separation and Further Treatment of our Philosophical Seed

-Chapter VIII. Of the Union or Mystical Marriage in the Philosophical Process

-Chapter IX. Of the Further Treatment and Ripening of our Seed

-Chapter X. Of the Further Process to the Ripening of our Noble Seed

-Chapter XI. A Further Description of the Process

-Chapter XII. Of the Stone and its Uses

-Chapter XIII. Of the Transmutation

⚗️The Bosom Book of Sir George Ripley

⚗️Preparations of the Sophic Mercury

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