Alchemy: Ancient and Modern

§ 53. Henry Khunrath was born in Saxony in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was a follower of Paracelsus, and travelled about Germany, practising as a physician. “This German alchemist,” says Mr. A. E. Waite, “. . . is claimed as a hierophant of the psychic side of the magnum opus, and . . . was undoubtedly aware of the larger issues, of Hermetic theorems”; he describes Khunrath’s chief work, Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ, &c., as “purely mystical and magical.”[72]