Sigismond Bacstroms Alchemical Anthology - An Essay on Alchemy

The writings of these Philosophers, as they call themselves, and many of them were well entitled to that appellation, are for the greater part, indeed we may say all of them, written with studied ambiguity, to conceal the art, a disclosure of which, they were persuaded, could not fail to prove prejudicial to mankind, though eventually it would be far otherwise. The following extracts selected from numerous authors, contain a full elucidation of the hidden art on which so many thousand volum...