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. Therefore, stay with the Great Art, or the great Elixir, as your foregathers did. When you have accomplished that, you may try other operations of Nature with greater confidence. But if you do otherwise, you are not following my advice. To begin with, take in hand the Great Work, because there is no worry in it....

Johann Isaac Hollandus, much like Hermes or Flamel, is a figure shrouded in some degree of mystery. Living in the 16th century, some works ascribed to the same may have in fact been penned by latter authors and merely ascribed to Hollandus, if indeed such a figure existed. Others suggest that these same works may be part of a tradition revolving around a figure which was never alive at all. The workings of alchemy in this compiled work include the creation of the stone of urine, the crafting of alchemical elixir, and a strange, apparently less valuable substance referred to as "Ixir"- these...