| Part 1: Introduction to Alchemy |
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| Your Apprenticeship in Alchemy |
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| Thoth: The Father of Alchemy |
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| The Treasures of Alexander |
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| The Fate of the Emerald Tablet |
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| The Legend of Thoth/Hermes |
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| Secrets of Priests and Craftsmen |
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| Alexandria: Center of Ancient Alchemy |
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| Greek Philosophy and Alchemy |
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| The Concept of Transmutation |
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| Destruction of the Alexandrian Texts |
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| The Growth of Alchemy in Asia |
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| How the Arabs Saved Alchemy |
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| Medieval Alchemy and the Quest for Gold |
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| The Beginning of European Alchemy |
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| The Wizardry of Roger Bacon |
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| Medieval and Renaissance Alchemy |
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| Nicolas Flamel's Powder of Projection |
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| Isaac Newton and the Black Dragon |
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| Part 2: The Principles of Alchemy |
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| The Secret Language of Alchemists |
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| The Language of the Birds |
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| Animal Symbolism in Alchemy |
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| Silent Secrets of the Rose |
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| Ciphers of the Alchemists |
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| Ciphers for the Three Essentials |
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| What Is the First Matter? |
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| Properties of the First Matter |
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| The First Matter Is Eternal |
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| The First Matter Is Everywhere to Be Found |
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| The First Matter Is Cyclic |
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| The First Matter Contains All the Elements |
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| The First Matter Is the Source of the Philosopher's Stone |
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| Working with the First Matter |
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| The Concept of the Elements |
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| Three Children of the First Matter |
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| Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt |
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| The Dance of Sulfur and Mercury |
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| The Three Essentials in People |
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| The Three Treasures of Taoist Alchemy |
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| What the Philosopher's Stone Looked Like |
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| Preparation of the Philosopher's Stone |
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| The Lost Key to the Monad |
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| Part 3: The Operations of Alchemy |
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| The Ladder of the Planets |
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| Correspondences of the Planets |
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| The Dark Powers of Saturn |
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| The Exuberant Powers of Jupiter |
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| The Masculine Powers of Mars |
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| The Feminine Powers of Venus |
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| The Transformative Powers of Mercury |
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| The Soulful Powers of the Moon |
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| The Spiritual Powers of the Sun |
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| The Process of Dissolution |
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| Part 4: Practical Alchemy |
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| Inside an Alchemist's Laboratory |
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| A Tour of a Medieval Laboratory |
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| The Chemicals Used by Alchemists |
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| Hidden Energies in the Lab |
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| The Doctrine of Signatures |
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| The Three Essentials in Plants |
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| Planetary Influences in Spagyrics |
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| Setting Up Your Kitchen Lab |
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| Making Alchemical Compounds |
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| Working with the Planetary Metals |
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| Saturn Signatures in Lead |
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| The Hidden Promise of Lead |
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| Jupiter Signatures in Tin |
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| Venus Signatures in Copper |
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| The Love Affairs of Copper |
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| Mercury's Metal: Quicksilver |
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| Mercury Signatures in Quicksilver |
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| The Dual Nature of Mercury |
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| Lunar Signatures in Silver |
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| The Moon's Influence Over Silver |
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| The Sun's Influence Over Gold |
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| Part 5: Spiritual Alchemy |
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| The First Matter in People |
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| The Four Elements in People |
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| The Black Phase of Mental Alchemy |
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| The White Phase of Mental Alchemy |
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| The Red Phase of Mental Alchemy |
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| The Dragons of Spiritual Alchemy |
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| The Azoth of the Philosophers |
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| The Operations of the Azoth |
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| The Sacred Marriage in You |
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| Birth of the Philosopher's Stone |
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| The Sacred Marriage in Christian Alchemy |
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| The Three Marriages in Alchemy |
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| The Sacred Marriage in Psychology |
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| The Alchemy of Relationships |
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| Calcination in Relationships |
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| Dissolution in Relationships |
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| Fermentation in Relationships |
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| Distillation in Relationships |
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| Coagulation in Relationships |
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| The Relationship Laboratory |
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| Calcination in the Workplace |
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| Dissolution in the Workplace |
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| Separation in the Workplace |
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| Conjunction in the Workplace |
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| Fermentation in the Workplace |
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| Distillation in the Workplace |
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| Coagulation in the Workplace |
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| Transforming the Workplace |
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| Wealth: The First Matter in Society |
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| The Science of the Future |
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| The Mystical Nature of Light |
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| Twentieth-Century Alchemists of Science |
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| Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
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| Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) |
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| Barbara McLintock (1902-1992) |
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| Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) |
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| The Philosopher's Stone of Physics |
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| The Projection of Consciousness |
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| Index | | 301 | |