Philosophical Books and Texts
16th Century and earlier
1
The words of Father Aristeus to his son
1688
Aristeus
2
Of the Division of Chaos
1552
Simon Forman
3
An Alchemical Mass
1602
Melchior Cibinensis
4
Alchemical Catechism
Baron Tschoudy
5
The Mirror of Alchemy
1597
Roger Bacon
6
Bloomfield's Blossoms
1557
Willm Blomefeild
7
Mary the Prophetess
Mary the Prophetess
8
An Alchemical poem by Thomas Rawlin
1611
Thomas Rawlin
9
Summary of the Rosary of Arnold de Villa Nova
Arnold de Villa Nova
10
Epistle on the Mineral Fire
1600
John Pontanus
11
The Secret Fire
1600
John Pontanus
12
Turba Philosophorum or Assembly of the Philosophers
900
Pythagoras
13
Book of the Chemical Art - Liber de Arte Chemica
1518
Marsilio Ficino
14
Alchemy in the English State Papers
1500
Anonymous
15
A form and method of perfecting base metals
1546
Petrus Bonus
16
The Ripley Scroll: Text and 6 Different Images
1600
George Ripley
17
The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers
1660
Paracelsus
18
The Aurora of the Philosophers - Aurora Philosophorum
1659
Paracelsus
17th Century
19
Aula Lucis or The House of Light
1651
Thomas Vaughan
20
Steganographic Collection from Le Tableau des Riches Inventions
1600
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
21
Of Signatures, or a true and lively Anatomy of the Greater and Lesser World
1669
Oswaldus Crollius
22
Certain Colloquies of some Studious Searchers After the Hermetick Medicine and Universal Tincture
1689
Johann Rudolph Glauber
23
A Naturall Chymicall Symbolum
1597
Doctor Kunwrath Faciebat
24
Names of the Philosophers Stone
1652
William Gratacolle
25
Atalanta Fugiens or Atalanta Fleeing
1617
Michael Maier
26
The Work of Dickinson Allegorical Poem
Edmund Dickinson
27
153 Chymical Aphorisms of Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
1687
Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
28
157 Canons of Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
1687
Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
29
Book of Lambspring
Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas
30
The Theatre of Terrestrial Astronomy
1676
Edward Kelly
31
The Stone of the Philosophers
1676
Edward Kelly
32
The Light coming out of the Darkness Short Version
Marc-Antonio Crassellame
33
Threefold Sophic Fire Verses
1705
William Y-Worth
34
The Tomb of Semiramis
1674
Anonymous
35
On the Philosophers Stone
1893
Arthur Edward Waite
36
Coelum Terrae
1650
Thomas Vaughan
37
The War of the Knights
1595
Johann Sternhals, Ritter-Krieg
38
The Adventures of an Unknown Philosopher
1646
Jean Albert Belin
39
On the Prima Materia
1612
Ruland
40
The Letter of a Philosopher Concerning the Secret of the Great Work
1688
Anonymous
41
The Natural round Physick or Philosophy of the Alchymical Cabalistical Vision
Anonymous
42
An Hundred Aphorisms Containing the Whole Body of Magic
Anonymous
43
A Short Enquiry concerning the Hermetic Art
1714
lover of Philalethes
44
The Hermetic Arcanum
1623
Jean d'Espagnet
45
Letter to the True Disciples of Hermes
1688
Alexandre Toussaint de Limojon
46
The Glory of Light
Ms. Ashmole 1415. f61-70
47
Place in Space
MS. Sloane 3797, folios 3-5.
48
Solinus Saltsthal Allegory
1654
Anonymous
49
Certain verses of an unknown writer, from Benedict Figulus
1608
Benedict Figulus
50
The Hermetical Triumph: or The Victorious Philosophical Stone
1689
Anonymous
51
The Iconologia of Cesare Ripa
1600
Cesare Ripa
18th Century and later
52
Two Prayers for Alchemists
1819
Karl Von Eckhartshausen
53
Freher's Process in the Philosophical Work
Dionysius Andreas Freher
54
Apollogia Alchymiae A Restatement of Alchemy
1925
John M. Watkins
55
On the Philadelphian Gold
1697
Philochrysus and Philadelphus
56
Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon
1752
Anonymous