A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels

A large collection of primary hermetic and alchemical treatises in English translation, including the Golden Chain of Homer, the Six Keys of Eudoxus, the Glory of the World and the Turba Philosophorum. The best single starting point for reading the sources directly.

Various Authors

Paracelsus on the origin of the philosophers' stone and how the art passed from Egypt to Europe. Waite's translation of one of the clearest statements of Paracelsian alchemy.

Paracelsus

A short question and answer text that teaches the principles of the art the way a catechism teaches doctrine. Each answer defines one term or one operation in plain language, which makes it an unusually easy first hermetic text.

Unknown

A symbolic account of initiation attributed to the Comte de Saint-Germain, laid out in twelve sections of alchemical allegory. Manly P. Hall's translation adds commentary on each section and on the figure behind the manuscript.

Comte de Saint-Germain