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Suggested Reading List

Below is a list of suggested reading on the subject of alchemy. I have omitted titles that give histories and biographies, and instead focused upon those text which I feel offer the best balance of both accessibility and substance.

• ALCHEMIST’s HANDBOOK (Manual for Practical Laboratory Alchemy)
• by Frater Albertus, Paracelsus Research Society, copyright 1974

• THEATRUM CHEMICUM BRITANNICUM (facsimile reprint, original copyright 1652)
• edited by Elias Ashmole, Sources of Science Series #39, Johnson Reprint Corp, copyright 1967

• GOLD OF A THOUSAND MORNINGS
• by Armand Barbault, trans by Robin Campbell, Neville Spearman, London, copyright 1975

• THE GOLDEN GAME: ALCHEMICAL ENGRAVING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
• by Stanislas Klossowski de Rola (with 533 illus) George Braziller Inc, copyright 1988.

• CHEMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ
• trans by Joscelyn Godwin, Phanes Press, copyright 1991

• CODEX ROSAE CRUCIS: RARE & CURIOUS MANUSCRIPT OF ROSICRUCIAN INTEREST
• introduction & commentary by Manly Hall, Philosophers Press, copyright 1938

• GEORGIUS AGRICOLA’s DE RE METALLICA (from First Latin Edition, 1556)
• trans by Herbert C Hoover & Lou H Hoover, Dover Publications, copyright 1950

• PARACELSUS: SELECTED WRITINGS
• edited by Jolande Jacobi, Bollingen Series, Pantheon Books, copyright 1951

• PSYCHOLOGY OF TRANSFERENCE: BASED ON “ROSARIUM PHILOSOPHORUM”
• by C.G. Jung, Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, copyright 1954

• PSYCHOLOGY AND ALCHEMY (with 270 illustations)
• by C.G. Jung, Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, second edition, copyright 1968

• ALCHEMICAL STUDIES (with 54 illustrations)
• by C.G. Jung, Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, copyright 1967

• MYSTERIUM CONIUNCTIONIS
• by C.G. Jung, Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, copyright 1970

• PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF PLANT ALCHEMY
• by Manfred Junius, Inner Traditions International Ltd, copyright 1985

• THE ALCHEMICAL MANDALA: Survey of the Mandala In the Western Esoteric Traditions
• by Adam McLean, Phanes Press, copyright 1989

• EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CHEMISTRY AS IT RELATES TO ALCHEMY
• by Carl W Stahl

• SPLENDOR SOLIS by Salomon Trismosin
• trans by Joscelyn Godwin, Phanes Press, copyright 1991

• A COMPENDIUM OF ALCHEMICAL PROCESSES
• trans by A.E. Waite, Samuel Weiser Inc, copyright 1981

• A LEXICON OF ALCHEMY
• trans by A.E. Waite, Samuel Weiser Inc, copyright 1984

• HERMETIC MUSEUM: CONTAINING 22 MOST CELEBRATED CHEMICAL TRACTS
• edited by Arthur Edward Waite, 2 volumes, Samuel Weiser Inc, copyright 1974

• GROWING AND USING THE HEALING HERBS
• by Gaea & Shandor Weiss, Rodale Press, copyright 1985

• SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER: A Chinese Book of Life
• trans by Richard Wilhelm, intro by C.G. Jung, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc, copyright 1962  (GOLDEN ELIXIR: Chinese Alchemy)
  

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