Secret of Secrets

The Secret of secrets, and the Stone of the Philosophers." In Five treatises of the Philosophers Stone, 68-72. London , 1652. 

Khalid ibn Yazid. "The secret of secrets." In Lives of the alchemystical philosophers, ed. Francis Barrett, 354-363., 1814. 

Williams, Steven J. The early circulation of the pseudo Aristotelian "Secret of secrets" in the West the papal and imperial courts. Micrologus 2 (1994) 127-144. 

From Wikipedia "The oldest documentable source for the [Emerald Tablet] text is the Kitab Sirr al-Asrar, a pseudo-Aristotelian compendium of advice for rulers authored by Abd al- Qadir al-Jilani in around 800 AD. This work was translated into Latin as Secretum Secretorum (The Secret of Secrets) by Johannes "Hispalensis" or Hispaniensis (John of Seville) ca. 1140 and by Philip of Tripoli c. 1243"... 

You must know, O good King, that this Magisterium is the secret of secrets of the Most High God ... 

Cf. Will iam Eamon, Science and the Secrets ofNature Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Princeton, 1994) Pamela O. Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Anticfuity to the Renaissance (Baltimore, Md., 2001) William F. Ryan and Charles B. Schmitt (eds.), Pseudo-Aristotle The Secret of Secrets Sources and Influences Ashm. 1433, ii, fo. 23 . For more on this treatise, see p. 171 below. 

Ryan, William E, and Charles B. Schmitt (eds.), Pseudo-Aristotle The Secret of Secrets Sources andLnfluences (1982). 

Secret of Secrets, which was known to Roger Bacon. 

Another text, known only through the copy of it made in the seventeenth century, pretends to be a Commentary by Toz Graecus, philosopher of great renown, on the books given by Solomon to Rehoboam concerning the Secret of Secrets. The preface reveals that Solomon gathered his vast learning into a book intended for his son Rehoboam, which he locked up in an ivory... 

Williams, P. and Wallace, D., 1989. Unit 731 The Japanese Army s Secret of Secrets, Hodder and Stoughton, London. 

Ts An T ung Ch i Summa Perfectionis Book of the Secret of Secrets Book of The Remedy Libellus de Alchimia Opus Maius A Treatise on the... 

In contrast to Jabir, who incfined toward numerical mysticism, al-Razi became practiced in experimental work. This is apparent from his two most influential works, Kitab al-Asrar (The Book of Secrets), and Kitab sirr al-Asrar The Book of the Secret of Secrets). In these works he gave several recipes for the alleged transmutation of common metals into precious ones, and crystal... 

Roger Bacon, like many other medieval alchemists, found the key to alchemy in a book called Sirr al-Asrar or Secretum secretorum Secret of Secrets) by the great Arabic physician Abu Bakr Mohammed ar-Razi (865-925 CE). After it appeared in about 1220 CE, Sirr al-Asrar became one of the most widely read books of the middle ages. ar-Razi classified minerals into six divisions ... 

Persian physician and alchemist Rhazes produces the text Secret of Secrets. This work describes various laboratory procedures basic to the study of chemistry—purification, separation, mixing, removal of water, and solidification— and describes many items of laboratory equipment recognizable today. It also classifies substances into animal, vegetable, mineral, and derivative. Substances are further classified as metals, vitriols, boraxes, salts, and stones. He prepares sal ammoniac by distilling hair with salt and urine. 

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