Stone of the Philosophers

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

Secondary t-p. "THE GOLDEN FLEECE, or, THE FLOWER OF TREASURES In which is succintly and methodically handled, the Stone of the philosophers, his excellent effect admirable Virtues and The better to attain to the Original true means of Perfection. Inriched with Figures representing the Colours to rise as they suooesstvely appear in the Practise of this Blessed Work. By that great Philosopher SOLOMON TRISMOSIN Master to Paracelsus"... 

Kelley, Edward], "The stone of the philosophers embracing the First Matter and the dual process for the vegetable and metallic tinctures." In Collectanea Chemica, ed. Arthur Edward Waite, 55-120., 1893. 

Biographical Note, by A.E. Waite.—The Stone of the Philosophers.-Certain Fragments Selected From the Letters of Edward Kelly.-The Humid Way, or, A Discourse Upon the Vegetable Menstruum of Saturn.—The Theatre of Terrestial Astronomy... 

Biographical note, by A.E. Waite.—The stone of the philosophers.—Certain fragments selected from the letters of Edward Kelly.-The humid way, or, A discourse upon the vegetable menstruum of Saturn.—The theatre of terrestial astronomy... 

Kelley, Edward. The Stone of the Philosophers. rhttp //www.alchemvlab.com/kellv %20stone.html. 

The Golden tract concerning the Stone of the Philosophers. By an anonymous German philosopher." In Hermetic museum, restored and enlarged, i, 5-50., 1893. 

Crasselame, Marc-Antonio. A Light from out of the Darkness on the composition of the Stone of the Philosophers. Translated by Patrick J. Smith. Translated by Patrick J. Smith. Holmes Pub Group, 2001. 

Lacinio, Giano. The new pearl of great price a treatise concerning the treasure and most precious stone of the philosophers Or the method and procedure of this divine art with observations drawn from the works of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus, first published by Janus Lacinius, the Calabrian, with a copious index. rhttp //www.ebrary.com1. 

Original T.P. Reads The New Pearl of Great Price. A Treatise Concerning the Treasure and Most Precious Stone of the Philosophers. Or the Method and Procedure of This... 

Bonus of Ferrara. "The new pearl of great price, being a concordance of the sages on the Great Treasure, the Stone of the Philosophers,the Arcanum, the Secret of all Secrets, and the gift of God." In New pearl of great price, ed. Bonus of Ferrara, 49-297., 1894. 

Lully, Raymond. "Philosophical and chymical experiments of the famous philosopher Raymund Lully. Wherein is contained, the right and true composition of both elixirs and universal medicine The admirable and perfect way of making the great Stone of the Philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England by Raymond Lully in the time of K. Edward the Third. Now for the the [sicl] benefit of all lovers of art and... 

The Golden Tract Concerning the Stone of the Philosophers (see The Hermetic... 

It was during his incarceration that he wrote an alchemistic work entitled The Stone of the Philosophers, which consists largely of quotations from older alchemistic writings. His other works on Alchemy were probably written at an earlier period. 

Michael Maier (see plate 10) was bom at Rendsberg (in Holstein) about 1568. He studied medicine assiduously, becoming a most successful physician, and he was ennobled by Rudolf II. Later on, however, he took up the subject of Alchemy, and is said to have mined his health and wasted his fortune in the pursuit of the alchemistic ignis fatuus — the Stone of the Philosophers — travelling about Germany and elsewhere in order to have converse with those who were regarded as adepts in the... 

A nineteenth-century biographical dictionary of alchemists includes Jean de Meun, author of The Romance of the Rose. Francis Barrett notes that some have read the work as a tale of love, while others have seen beneath the text the process for the stone of the philosophers (29). In particular, verses 16914—16997 are said to contain much veiled information regarding the Great Work. 

Make a round circle out of the man and woman, and draw out of it a quadrangle, and out of the quadrangle a triangle, make a round circle, and thou shalt have the Stone of the Philosophers.1... 

You certainly have arrived at some idea of the Great Work [i.e., Alchemy], but I had arrived at as much 30 perhaps 40 years ago, and yet I have not accomplished it, partly certainly, because I have not tried. When you come to the astral practice, then your difficulties begin. I will explain to you as to books and MSS, when I see you. As to the gift of God c., that does not mean exactly what it says, any more than it does as to the very long time it takes to make the Stone of the Philosophers. 

ARGENTUM VIVUM — is the chemical term for Mercury. It is simply a viscous water, in the bowels of the earth, of a subtle substance, having the nature of white earth, made one with a perfect union, up to the last point and particle, until that which is humid is modified by that which is dry, and the dry again by the humid, until the whole is absolutely homogeneous. Also Vivific Silver, i.e., the philosophical substance which is to be distinguished from common quicksilver, is the complementary part of the stone of the philosophers, as the chemists tell us the second principle, the mother of all the metals, and in proportion as it copulates with their father, the male sulphur, it engenders perfection and imperfection in metals, and when it predominates the metals (like a foetus) derive more from the mother than the father. Into that also from which they most originate are they most resolved. Now quicksilver is twofold-natural and artificial. 

COELUM PHILOSOPHORUM - is some matter which far transcends the nature of the vulgar elements, such as the Stone of the Philosophers, the Universal Medicine, etc. 

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