A suggestive inquiry into the hermetic mystery with a dissertation on the more celebrated of the alchemical philosophers : being an attempt towards the recovery of the ancient experiment of nature

1st pub. 1850.. Intro. by Walter Leslie Williamhurst.. Appendix contains the memorabilia of M.A. Atwood.

Hermes Trismegistus : p105-140.. Alchemy - Texts: Hermes Trismegistus: Seven Golden Chapters : The golden treatise of Hermes Trismegistus, concerning the physical secret of the philosopher's stone. In seven chapters., p105.

Part 1- An exoteric view of the progress and theory of alchemy. Part 2 - A more esoteric consideration of the Hermetic art and its mysteries. Part 3 - Concerning the laws and vital conditions of the Hermetic experiment. Part 4 - The Hermetic practice

A landmark book in both the history and transmission of the 'higher' alchemy and the relation of feminism to the Occult Revival. Through an intense study of the occult, authoress Atwood discovered that Alchemy is 'the exact [mesmeric] science of regeneration of the human soul....In her Conclusion the authoress writes, ' Man was the proper laboratory of the whole Art.' The purpose of the Hermetic Art was to explore the perfection of mind and manual efficacy and 'to effect all things...' Alchemy and the Mysteries are elucidated by Mesmerism. The grand Hermetic Secret is that 'there is a Universal Subject in nature, and that Subject is susceptible of nourishment in Man; and this is the greatest mystery, of all mysteries the most wonderful, that man should be able not only to find the divine nature, but to effect It.' '...man by his especial prerogative of Reason and rectitude of purpose is able, by a development of these, to advance and bear the life within him through dissolution into a new birth, superior to nature and beyond the reach of the elementary discord.'

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