INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Waite, Arthur Edward and Barrett, Francis
Abraham the Jew, 99
Adfar, an Arabian adept of Alexandria, 53
Alain of Lisle, 67
Albertus Magnus, 57
Alcahest, 157
Alchemy—Diversity of opinion on the object of alchemical science, 9;
the avowed object, 10;
the aim said to be concealed, 11;
symbolism of the science, 11;
distinction between alchemy and chemistry, 21;
alchemy as a factor in the progress of the physical sciences, 27;
physical nature of the alchemical aim established by the lives and writings of the adepts, 29;
side issues of alchemical theories, 32;
application of alchemy to the extension of life, 65;
modification of the human body by alchemy, 65;
alchemy the science of the four elements, 93;
the Seal of God set on the secret of alchemy, 165
Alfarabi, 48
Alipili, 22, 23
Altotas, 221, 234
Ancient War of the Knights, 43
Anima Magica Abscondita, 21
Anonymous adept, 184
Antimony, Basil Valentine’s preparation for the study of, 17;
the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, 121
Aphrodite Urania, 37
Apono, Peter d’, 88
Aquinas, St Thomas, 61
Argent Vive—Reduction of metals into sophic Argent Vive, 87;
the Medicine of all Metals, 90;
the first thing to be ascertained in alchemy is the significance of this term, 92
Arnold de Villanova, 88
Ars Lulliana, 68
Avicenna, 51
Azoth, or The Star in the East, a forthcoming work on the psychic potencies which enter into the higher act of transmutation, on the mysteries of spiritual chemistry, and on the possibilities of practical transcendentalism, 37
Bacon, Roger, 63
Balsamo, Joseph, Travels, Adventures, and Imprisonments, 220
Basil, Valentine, 120
Belin, Albert, 186
Berigard of Pisa, 148