Alchemy Rediscovered And Restored

ALCHEMY REDISCOVERED AND RESTORED By Archibald Cockren Philadelphia, David McKay 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 CONTENTS PART I HISTORICAL CHAPTER I. BEGINNINGS OF ALCHEMY 19 II. EARLY EUROPEAN ALCHEMISTS 25 III. THE STORY OF NICHOLAS FLAMEL 30 IV. BASIL VALENTINE 40 V. PARACELSUS 46 VI. ALCHEMY IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES 51 VII. ENGLISH ALCHEMISTS 60 VIII. THE COMTE DE ST. GERMAIN 71 PART II THEORETICAL I. THE SEED OF METALS 79 II. THE SPIRIT OF MERCURY 87 III. THE QUINTESSENCE 94 IV. THE QUINTESSENCE IN DAILY LIFE 103 p. 10 PART III I. THE MEDICINE FROM METALS 111 II. PRACTICAL 119 CONCLUSION 129 'AUREUS' OR THE GOLDEN TRACTATE 131 THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION OF HERMES 149 THE SMARAGDINE TABLES OF HERMES TRISMEGISTUS said to be found in the Valley of Ebron, after the Flood. 1. I speak not fiction, but what is certain and most true. 2. What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below for performing the miracle of one thing. 3. And as all things were produced from One by the Mediation of One, so all things are produced from this One thing by adaptation. 4. Its father is the Sun, its mother was the Moon, the wind carried it in its belly, its nurse is the Earth. 5. It is the cause of all perfection throughout the whole world. 6. Its power is perfect if it be changed into the earth. 7. Separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, gently and with judgment. 8. It ascends from earth to heaven, and descends again to earth, thus you will possess the glory of the whole World and all obscurity will fly away. 9. This thing is the fortitude of all fortitude, because it overcomes all subtle things, and penetrates every solid thing. p. 12 10. Thus were all things created. 11. Thence proceed wonderful adaptations which are produced in this way. 12. Therefore am I called Hermes Trismegistus, possessing the three parts of the philosophy of the whole World. 13. What I had to say concerning the operation of the Sun is complete. FOREWORD BY SIR DUDLEY BORRON MYERS, O.B.E. Having been intimately associated with Archibald Cockren during the past ten years, and having long since learnt to place implicit confidence in his efficiency and reliability in all matters to which he has devoted his many remarkable gifts and talents, it affords me real pleasure to write a few words by way of introduction to 'Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored.' In this book he tells of the sensational work which he has accomplished in once more bringing to light, and to the service of humanity, secrets which baffled the majority of scientists of all ages, and which, for several centuries, have been buried in a grave of doubt and sceptical tradition. That this grave should at last have been opened, and that the real, albeit hidden secrets which it contained should now stand revealed and proclaimed, must undoubtedly be regarded as an epoch-making event. I do not myself claim to have any scientific knowledge whatever, but seeing is believing, and I have been privileged to keep in close touch with the author's experiments from the very beginning. Not only have I seen the results achieved, but I, among many others, have been able to test and pay grateful tribute to the p. 14 efficacy of the