ALCHEMY REDISCOVERED AND RESTORED

By

Archibald Cockren

Philadelphia, David McKay

1941

With an account of the extraction of the seed of metals and the preparation of the medicinal elixir according to the practice of the hermetic Art and of the Alkahest of the Philosopher

To Mrs. Meyer Sassoon

THE SMARAGDINE TABLES OF HERMES TRISMEGISTUS

FOREWORD

PART I - CHAPTER I HISTORICAL

• BEGINNINGS OF ALCHEMY

• CHAPTER II - EARLY EUROPEAN ALCHEMISTS

• CHAPTER III - THE STORY OF NICHOLAS FLAMEL

• CHAPTER IV - BASIL VALENTINE

• CHAPTER V - PARACELSUS

• CHAPTER VI - ALCHEMY IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

• CHAPTER VII - ENGLISH ALCHEMISTS

• CHAPTER VIII - THE COMTE DE ST. GERMAIN

PART II - THEORETICAL

• CHAPTER I - THE SEED OF METALS

• CHAPTER II - THE SPIRIT OF MERCURY

• CHAPTER III - THE QUINTESSENCE (I)

  • THE QUINTESSENCE. (II)

• CHAPTER IV - THE QUINTESSENCE IN DAILY LIFE

PART III

• CHAPTER I - THE MEDICINE FROM METALS

• CHAPTER II - PRACTICAL

  • CONCLUSION

  • 'AUREUS,' OR THE GOLDEN TRACTATE

  • SECTION I

  • SECTION II

  • SECTION III

  • SECTION IV

  • SECTION V

  • SECTION VI

  • SECTION VII

THE BOOK OF - THE REVELATION OF HERMES