2009 reprint of 1624 edition. Nicolas Flamel was a successful scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the philosopher's stone.An alchemical book published in London in 1624 as Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures was attributed to Flamel. It is a collection of designs purportedly commissioned by Flamel for a tympanum at the Cimetiere des Innocents in Paris, long disappeared at the time the work was published. Some considered Flamel the most accomplished of the European alchemists. The essence of his reputation is...

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. I, Nicholas Flamel, a scrivener of Paris, in the year 1414, in the reign of our gracious Prince Charles the VIth, whom God preserve; and after the death of my faithful partner Perenelle, am seized with a desire and a delight, in remembrance of her, and in your behalf, dear nephew, to write out the whole magistery of...

This guide is really more strange and unusual than anything you have likely read or heard about. In it, you are invited to embark on a marvelous journey that began eons ago at the advent of your soul's arrival. Praise for Beginner's Guide to Quintessence: "An essential companion guide, centuries in the making." Leonardo da Vinci "At last, the guide for which the whole world has waited. It was well worth the wait." Thomas Jefferson "Quintessence proffers a most sublime and glorious opus." Johann Sebastian Bach