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    Coelum philosophorum
    Coelum philosophorum
    Coelum philosophorum
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    Coelum philosophorum

    By Paracelsus

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    :THE PREFACE OF THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS TO ALL ALCHEMISTS AND READERS OF THIS BOOK.

    PART I. THE SEVEN CANONS OF THE METALS. THE FIRST CANON. CONCERNING THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF MERCURY. (1)

    THE SECOND CANON. CONCERNING THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF JUPITER.

    THE THIRD CANON. CONCERNING MARS AND HIS PROPERTIES.

    THE FOURTH CANON. CONCERNING VENUS AND ITS PROPERTIES.

    THE FIFTH CANON. CONCERNING THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OP SATURN.

    THE SIXTH CANON. CONCERNING LUNA AND THE PROPERTIES THEREOF.

    THE SEVENTH CANON. CONCERNING THE NATURE OF SOL AND ITS PROPERTIES.

    PART II. CERTAIN TREATISES AND APPENDICES ARISING OUT OF THE SEVEN CANONS. GOD AND NATURE DO NOTHING IN VAIN.

    WHAT IS TO ...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYoucanprint
    Release dateJun 11, 2019
    ISBN9788831624985
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      Coelum philosophorum - Paracelsus

      Table of Contents

      THE PREFACE OF THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS TO ALL ALCHEMISTS AND READERS OF THIS BOOK.

      PART I. THE SEVEN CANONS OF THE METALS. THE FIRST CANON. CONCERNING THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF MERCURY. (1)

      THE SECOND CANON. CONCERNING THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF JUPITER.

      THE THIRD CANON. CONCERNING MARS AND HIS PROPERTIES.

      THE FOURTH CANON. CONCERNING VENUS AND ITS PROPERTIES.

      THE FIFTH CANON. CONCERNING THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OP SATURN.

      THE SIXTH CANON. CONCERNING LUNA AND THE PROPERTIES THEREOF.

      THE SEVENTH CANON. CONCERNING THE NATURE OF SOL AND ITS PROPERTIES.

      PART II. CERTAIN TREATISES AND APPENDICES ARISING OUT OF THE SEVEN CANONS. GOD AND NATURE DO NOTHING IN VAIN.

      WHAT IS TO BE THOUGHT CONCERNING THE CONGELATION OF MERCURY.

      CONCERNING THE RECEIPTS OF ALCHEMY.

      HOW TO CONJURE THE CRYSTAL SO THAT ALL THINGS MAY BE SEEN IN IT.

      CONCERNING THE HEAT OF MERCURY.

      WHAT MATERIALS AND INSTRUMENTS ARE REQUIRED IN ALCHEMY.

      THE METHOD OF SEEKING MINERALS.

      WHAT ALCHEMY IS.

      COELUM PHILOSOPHORUM

      by

      PARACELSUS

      First digital edition 2019 by Gianluca Ruffini

      THE PREFACE OF THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS TO ALL ALCHEMISTS AND READERS OF THIS BOOK.

      YOU who are skilled in Alchemy, and as many others as promise yourselves great riches or chiefly desire to make gold and silver, which Alchemy in different ways promises and teaches; equally, too, you who willingly undergo toil and vexations, and wish not to be freed from them, until you have attained your rewards, and the fulfilment of the promises made to you; experience teaches this every day, that out of thousands of you not even one accomplishes his desire. Is this a failure of Nature or of Art? I say, no; but it is rather the fault of fate, or of the unskilfulness of the operator.

      Since, therefore, the characters of the sign of the stars and planets of heaven, together with the other names, inverted words, receipts, materials, and instruments are thoroughly well known to such as are acquainted with this art, it would be altogether superfluous to recur to these same subjects in the present book, although the use of such signs, names, and characters at the proper time is by no means without advantage.

      But herein will be noticed another way of treating Alchemy different from the previous method, and deduced by Seven Canons from the sevenfold series of the metals. This, indeed, will not give scope for a pompous parade of words, but, nevertheless, in the consideration of those Canons everything

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