Alchemical Symbols: 21

Many of the included symbols appeared in the “Last Will and Testament” of Basilius Valentinus in the seventeenth century. That table has been augmented with symbols from other sources including the ''Alchemist’s Handbook'' by Frater Albertus, Dom Antoine Joseph Pernety’s “The Great Art”, Stanislas Klossowski de Rola’s “ Alchemy : The Secret Art,” items taken from the works of Agrippa and John Read, symbols from the Bacstrom Manuscripts, the R.A.M.S. Library collected by Hans W. Nintzel, and other sources. For details please see the References section.The second part of this work is a dictionary of basic Gematria. For those desirous of seeking possible hidden meaning in the alchemistical writings through the Qabalah, the Hebrew of key alchemically-oriented words is presented along with the numerical equivalences.Finally, there is a short Glossary of Latin Terms of interest to students of alchemy, tables of common conversion factors and a list of abbreviations.This volume also includes ''A French Alchemical Romance and Adventure'' by Hans W. Nintzel.https://ramsalchemy.jimdo.com

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