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Fulcanelli, Master Alchemist, The Dwellings of the Philosophers, Archive Press, Boulder, CO 1999. In 1930, “Fulcanelli” published his sequel to Les Mysteres des Cathedrals. The designation of Fulcanelli himself as “Master Alchemist” is prominent on the front of both books. Fulcanelli sharply challenges our modern view of the Middle Ages as a wretched and miserable time. Modern historians, he notes …More
Frater Albertus, Alchemist’s Handbook, Samuel Weiser, York Beach, Maine 1974. “Frater Albertus” was the pseudonym of Dr. Albert Riedel who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1911. In the second half of his life, he operated the Paracelsus Research Institute in Salt Lake City where he also wrote The Alchemist of the Rocky Mountains. The initial illustration of The Alchemist’s Handbook is a painting, likely by …More
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century, Thames and Hudson, London, 1988.
Alexander Roob, Alchemy & Mysticism; the Hermetic Museum, Taschen, New York, 1997.
B. J. T. Dobbs, The Foundations of Newton’s Alchemy or The Hunting of the Green Lyon, Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Brian Cotnoir, The Weiser Concise Guide to Alchemy, Weiser Books, San Francisco, 2006.
Jean Dubuis and Mark Stavish, “An Interview with Jean Dubuis”
Adam McLean, ed., The Hermetic Journal and The Alchemy Web Site
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