Other editions of book Alchemy: ancient and modern,: Being a brief account of the alchemistic doctrines, and their relations, to mysticism on the one hand, and to recent ... and teachings of the most noted alchemists

This book includes a brief account of the alchemistic doctrines and their relations to mysticism on the one hand, and to recent discoveries in physical science on the other hand, together with some particulars regarding the lives and teachings of the most noted alchemists. The book includes seven chapters as follows: (1) The Meaning of Alchemy, (2) The Theory of Physical Alchemy, (3) The Alchemists (Before Paracelsus), (4) The Alchemists (Paracelsus and After), (5) The Outcome of Alchemy, (6) The Age of Modern Chemistry, and (7) Modern Alchemy. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of this timeless book. This edition is amply illustrated.

This book is an illustrated version of the original Alchemy Ancient and Modern by H. Stanley Redgrov. The basic idea permeating all the alchemistic theories appears to have been this: All the metals (and, indeed, all forms of matter) are one in origin, and are produced by an evolutionary process. The Soul of them all is one and the same; it is only the Soul that is permanent; the body or outward form, i.e., the mode of manifestation of the Soul, is transitory, and one form may be transmuted into another. The similarity, indeed it might be said, the identity, between this view and the modern etheric theory of matter is at once apparent.