Helvetius

An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King /. .. Eirenzus Philalethes. VI. A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy. . . / Michael Maier. Vii-Ix. The Three Treatises of Philalethes. X. John Frederick Helvetius Golden Calf... XI. The All-Wise Keeper... 

Helvetius, John Friedrich. The golden calf. Edmonds , 1987. 

Helvetius, John Friedrich. ".. . The golden calf, which the world worships and adores.. . . " In Hermetic museum, restored and enlarged, ii, 271-300., 1893. 

Helvetius, John Friedrich. "Vitulus aureus 1667." In Secret tradition in alchemy, ed. Arthur Edward Waite, 307-314., 1926. 

Holmyard, Eric John. Helvetius meets an adept. Aryan Path 2, no. 10 (Oct 1931) 700-703. 

Wootton, David. Helvetius from radical enlightenment to revolution. Political Theory 28 (Jun 2000) 307-336. 

The second part of this book reveals that many alchemists were notable scientific and philosophic figures of their day Helvetius, Paracelsus. Dr John Dee, Isaac Newton. They believed that the search for the secret of making gold was tied in with the search for spiritual perfection, and that success meant the achievement of immortality. There are traditions of alchemy in the East as in the West, today as in the past"... 

John Frederick Helvetius (see plate 13), an eminent doctor of medicine, and physician to the Prince of Orange, published at the Hague in 1667 the following remarkable account of a transmutation he claimed to have effected. Certain points of resemblance between this account and that of van Helmont (e.g., in each case the Stone is described as a glassy substance of a pale yellow colour) are worth noticing "On the 27 December,... 

Although the scientific method as we now know it was beginning to get a firm foothold on the European intelligentsia, this period also sees what is perhaps the most celebrated (after the Flamels), and certainly most detailed, account of a transmutation. It was published in 1667 by the great Swiss doctor John Frederick Helvetius, personal physician to the Prince of Orange, and one of the leading names in the medicine of the time. 

The stranger returned three weeks later, and gave Helvetius one of the stones. Helvetius commented that it was so small it didn t look particularly impressive, at which point the stranger broke the stone in half and threw half on the fire, much to Helvetius s horror. He gave the remaining half to the great doctor and told him that even this small amount, half the size of a walnut, was more than enough. He left Helvetius with instruc-... 

Helvetius s reputation was hardly tarnished by his admission that he believed he had achieved transmutation. The same, however, cannot be said for the English alchemist, scientist and Royal Society Fellow, James Price. 

Alchemical messiah whose advent was predicted by Paracelsus. The most well-known appearance of Elias was at the house of Helvetius in 1666, although other men of science, including Van Helmont, were also visited by mysterious strangers dressed in black, who instructed them in the art of turning base metals into gold. 

Helvetius, like van Helmont, was also visited by a stranger bearing the secret, and also notes that the Stone is the colour of saffron. His account of the transmutation he performed in 1667 is one of the most fascinating in the entire alchemical corpus. See Chapter 2. 

Helvetius, John Frederick, The Golden Calf Which the World Adores, Washington Holmes Publishing Group, 1986 Linden, Stanton J. (Ed), The Alchemy Reader From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton, Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2003... 

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