Alchemy

Note 82 — Chapter IV · THE ALCHEMISTS (continued) (B. PARACELSUS AND AFTER)

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See Mr. A. E. Waite’s Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers, art. “Eirenæus Philalethes,” and the Biographical Preface to his The Works of Thomas Vaughan (1919); also the late Professor Ferguson’s “‘The Marrow of Alchemy’,” The Journal of The Alchemical Society, vol. iii. (1915), pp. 106 et seq., and Professor G. L. Kittredge’s Doctor Robert Child, The Remonstrant (Camb., Mass., 1919). The last mentioned writer strongly urges the identification of “Eirenæus Philalethes” with George Starkey.

[83] “Eirenæus Philalethes”: The Metamorphosis of Metals (see The Hermetic Museum, vol. ii. p. 236). Compare with van Helmont’s views, § 57.

[84] Ibid., p. 240.

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