Alchemical Texts - 18th Century and later
16th Century and earlier 17th Century 18th Century

Texts primarily dealing with physical alchemy:

The Golden Chain of Homer
Rosicrucian Aphorisms and Process - Bacstrom


Texts primarily dealing with allegorical, philosophical and spiritual alchemy:

Two prayers for alchemists by Eckartshausen
Freher's Process in the Philosophical Work
R.W. Councell Apollogia Alchymiae
The Philadelphian Gold
The Hermaphrodite child of the Son and Moon



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16th Century
Practical alchemy
Philosophical alchemy

17th Century
Practical alchemy
Philosophical alchemy

18th Century
Practical alchemy
Philosophical alchemy

Alchemical poetry

Alchemical allegories

Works of Nicolas Flamel
Works of George Ripley
Works of Sendivogius
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
Emerald tablet of Hermes
Rosicrucian texts
Literary works
Texts from Musaeum Hermeticum

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German alchemical texts
French alchemical texts
Russian alchemical texts


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