George Redway's Publications. 1 1 



Demy%vo,pp. 315, Cloth, IQS. 6d. 



Lives of 

 Alchemystical Philosophers. 



BASED ON MATERIALS COLLECTED IN 1815, AND SUPPLEMENTED 

 BY RECENT RESEARCHES. 



WITH A PHILOSOPHICAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF 

 THE MAGNUM OPUS, OR GREAT WORK OF ALCHEMICAL RE-CON- 

 STRUCTION, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SPIRITUAL CHEMISTRY. 



BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE. 



TO WHICH IS ADDED A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALCHEMY AND 

 HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY. 



LIVES OF THE ALCHEMISTS : Geber Rhasis Alfarabi Avicenna Morien Albertus 

 Magnus Thomas Aquinas Roger Bacon Alain of Lisle Raymond Lully Arnold De 

 Villanova Jean De Meung The Monk Ferarius Pope John XXII. Nicholas Flamel 

 Peter Bono Johannes De Rupecissa Basil Valentine Isaac of Holland Bernard 

 Trevisan John Fontaine Thomas Norton Thomas Dalton Sir George Ripley Picus 

 De Mirandola Paracelsus Denis Zachaire Berigard of Pisa Thomas Charnock 

 Giovanni Braccesco Leonardi Fioravanti John Dee Henry Khunrath Michael Maier 

 Jacob Bohme J. B. Van Helmorit Butler Jean D'Espagnet Alexander Sethon 

 Michael Sendivogius Gustenhover Busardier Anonymous Adept Albert Belin 

 Eirenaeus Philalethes Pierre Jean Fabre John Frederick Helvetius Guiseppe Francesco 

 Borri John Heydon Lascaris Delisle John Hermann Obereit Travels, Adventures, 

 and Imprisonments of Joseph Balsamo. 



" The chapter about Flamel is one of the most interesting in the book, but 

 the longest and most enthralling is that containing a full account of the 

 career of the infamous Cagliostro, whom Carlyle has immolated. This is 

 really a romance of the highest interest. . . . There is abundance of interest 

 in Mr Waite's pages for those who have any inclination for occult studies, 

 and although he founds his work upon a book which was published in 1815 

 by an anonymous writer, yet he adds so much fresh matter that this is practi- 

 cally a new work. A valuable feature for students is the alphabetical cata- 

 logue which Mr Waite has prepared of all known works on hermetic 

 philosophy and alchemy." Glasgow Herald. 



" Mr Waite has undoubtedly bestowed a vast amount of patient and 

 laborious research upon the present work, inspired by the double conviction 

 that the original alchemists had in fact anticipated and transcended the 

 highest results of chemistry in the metallic kingdom, and had discovered in 

 the twilight of the Middle Ages the future development of universal Evolution. 

 The biographical sketches of the alchemists, both true and false, are curious 

 reading, and the alphabetical catalogue of works on Hermetic Philosophy is 

 surprisingly suggestive of ages when leisure was less scarce, and literature 

 scarcer, than in modern days." Daily News. 



" The alchemists more popularly known, such as Albertus Magnus, Roger 

 Bacon, Raymond Lully, Flamel, Paracelsus, and Basil Valentine are dealt 

 with fairly and fully, and the travels and adventures of Joseph Balsamo, alias 

 Cagliostro, with his somewhat peculiar developments of Egyptian Free- 

 masonry, are excellent and interesting reading. . . . Such an intelligent study 



