Mandalas alchemical

This workbook is a guided tour through the steps of the Emerald Formula. There are alchemical mandalas and symbolic drawings actually used by the alchemists to illustrate the principles of the Emerald Tablet, as well as interpretations and guided meditations to accompany them. Most engravings have never before been published to a wide audience and date back over five hundred years others have been restored with symbolic colors to convey their archetypal content. [By D.W. Hauck ]... 

McLean, Adam. Alchemical mandala Number 2. Hermetic J, no. 2 (Winter 1978) 34-35. 

McLean, Adam. The alchemical mandala a survey of the mandala in the Western esoteric traditions. Grand Rapids (MI) Phanes Press, 1989. 142 p. ISBN 0-933999-79-8... 

McLean, Adam. The alchemical mandalas. Magnum Opus, 1976. 

Bulman-May contends that the science of alchemy is a central reference myth in the novels of Patrick White. He traces the application of the alchemical myth from The Aunts Story through The Tree of Man, Voss and Riders in the Chariot to The Solid Mandala, aiming to establish his contention beyond doubt. 

Figure 5.4 The alchemist s face appears at the center of this alchemical mandala. (Museum Hermeticum [1625])...

Adam McLean has an interesting view concerning Western alchemical mandalas. He analyzes 30 images of esoteric alchemy in European texts mostly... 

A. McLean, The Alchemical Mandala, Phanes Press, Grand Rapids, 1989. 

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