The Turba Philosophorum, or Assembly of the Alchemical Philosophers, is attributed to Arisleus. It is one of the earliest Alchemical texts, believed to be from the 12th Century. The Turba Philosophorum was often quoted in later Alchemical texts. Also included in this volume: Revelation of the True Chemical Wisdom by Friederich Gualdus, which includes a Forward by Hans W. Nintzel. Contained therein, are letters between Gualdus and Baron von Reusenstein. The latter refers to Gualdus as an Adept. Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom held von Reusenstein in very high regard. We have here, also, Gualdus' recipe...

Das Aceton, or The Acetone, is a German Alchemical text written by Dr. Christian August Becker in 1862. It was originally published in 1862, with a second edition in 1867. Das Aceton is perhaps the only Alchemical work largely devoted to the study of the Philosophical acetone. The chemical acetone is the organic compound. It is the simplest ketone; a colorless, volatile, flammable liquid. The chemical acetone is very likely not the same as the Philosophical acetone.

The Greater and Lesser Edifyer contains much of interest to the student of Alchemy, including innumerable cross-references to other Alchemical works, and practical plus allegorical instructions on the practice of the Art. Johann Grasshoff (or Grasshof, Grasse) (1560 - 1623) was a Pomeranian jurist and alchemical writer. He is also recorded as a medical advisor to Ernest of Bavaria, an Episcopal counselor. His writings include the Aperta Arca arcani artificiosissimi (1617) and a Cabala Chymica (1658). The compilation of the 1625 Dyas chymica tripartita is also attributed to him; it includes...

The author of the original work, John Hazelrigg (1860-1944), was an American astrologer. He co-founded the American Academy of Astrologians in 1916. Mr. Hazelrigg took an interest in alchemy and in particular the processes related in the writings of various alchemists of the past several centuries. A complete presentation of alchemical symbols used in this text may be found in the book Alchemical Symbols, listed in the References section. It contains over 450 alchemical symbols and other valuable alchemical reference material. This book also includes -Arcanum or The Grand Secret of Hermetic...

Hans Nintzel collected these small works together since each in itself is too short to require a dedicated book. Nevertheless, Hans considered them to hold valuable clues to the achievement of the Great Work in Alchemy. Two of the original works, Zoroasters Cave (Extract) and A Treatise Written by a Celebrated Philosopher, are now in The R.A.M.S. Library of Alchemy's Bacstrom's Notebooks Part 3, since their English translations originated in the Bacstrom notebooks. The works in this Volume include some of the writings of Raymond Lully, Eugeneous Philaletha, Lamspring, Louis Grassot, Count...

Johan Isaac Hollandus (late sixteenth Century) is said to have been the two Isaacs Hollandus, father and son, Dutch adepts, who wrote 'De Triplici Ordinari Exiliris et Lapidis Theoria', 'Mineralia Opera Sue de Lapide Philosophico' and other works on Alchemy. The details of their operations on metals may be the most explicit that have been given in writing, and may have been dismissed by some because of this very clarity. John Read, a Professor of Chemistry, in his 'Prelude to Chemistry, an Outline of Alchemy, ' dismisses the writing of the Hollandus pair in a few words, possibly because their...

Johan Isaac Hollandus (late sixteenth Century) is said to have been the two Isaacs Hollandus, father and son, Dutch adepts, who wrote 'De Triplici Ordinari Exiliris et Lapidis Theoria', 'Mineralia Opera Sue de Lapide Philosophico' and other works on Alchemy. The details of their operations on metals may be the most explicit that have been given in writing, and may have been dismissed by some because of this very clarity. John Read, a Professor of Chemistry, in his 'Prelude to Chemistry, an Outline of Alchemy, ' dismisses the writing of the Hollandus pair in a few words, possibly because their...

Hans Nintzel added this work to the R.A.M.S. Library in 1982. It is from the British Museum printed book, 122 pages, 8905 A 15 in German "Donum Dei" (Samullis Baruch), "Abraham the Jew" (in German), 87 pages bound with 9005 A 15. Abraham Eleazar was probably a fictitious name used by the author. It appears that the book was first published in Leipzig in 1760 with the title, "R. Abrahami Eleazaris Uraltes Chymisches Werk," although an edition from 1735 is said to exist (see Note at the end of the Forward). The author might have been Julius Gervasius of Schwarzburg. The Forward states that the...