Philalethes, Eirenaeus author

This Volume Contains the Works of the Pseudonymous Eirenaeus Philalethes, an Alchemist Purported to Have Discovered the Philosopher s Stone. First Printings of These Tracts Appeared Between 1654 and 1683. This Is the First Collection of All Contemporaneously English Treatises of Philalethes. Only Two Tracts Remain Unpublished in English. More Then 300 Years After the Publications of the Rich Works Contained Herein the Identity of Eirenaeus Philalethes Is Still Secreted in a Labyrinth of Circumstantial Clues. The Mysterious, Nearly Mythological Author Stands As the Perfect Metaphor for the Enigma of Pseudonyms and Symbolism of the Hermetic Practices. Philalethes Is the Latinization of the Greek and Translated "Lover of Truth."... 

Early twenty-first-century historians of alchemy and chemistry now have demonstrated how much alchemical ideas were involved in the early modern experimental science of the seventeenth century, including that of Boyle himself, as well as Newton and George Starkey. Starkey was an experimental chemist who was the author of the important alchemical text The Marrow of Alchemy (1654-55), published under the name Eirenaeus Philoponus Philalethes, and held to be of great alchemical importance by Waite and Golden Dawn alchemists. See Newman and Principe 2004, and Principe 1998. 

Marrow of Alchemy, by "Eirenaeus Philoponos Philalethes," which some think he had stolen from his Hermetic Master. Other works by "Eirenaeus Philalethes" appeared after Starkey s death and became immensely popular. The Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King (the most famous of these) and the Three Treatises of the same author will be found in The Hermetic Museum. Some of his views have already been noted (see 1 and 22). On certain points he differed from the majority of the alchemists. He denied that fire... 

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