The Secret Tradition in Alchemy: Its Development and Records

Preface 1. Alchemy and Supernatural Life 2. Modern Views on the Hermetic Mystery 3. Further Speculations on Philosophical Gold 4. Ancient Hermetic Books and the Way of the Soul Therein 5. Alchemy in China 6. The Testimony of Byzantine Alchemy 7. Arabian and Syriac Alchemy 8. The Early Latin Literature 9. The Later Chain of Hermes 10. The Myth of Flamel 11. The Chariot of Basil Valentine 12. Paracelsus 13. Denys Zachaire and Others 14. Famous English Philosophers 15. Alchemy and Exploitation 16. The New Light of Alchemy 17. The Reformation and German Alchemy 18. Thomas Vaughan 19. The Cosmopolite 20. John Frederick Helvetius 21. An Alchemist of Mitylene 22. The Mystic Side of Alchemy. Appendices