This is a reprint of the 1920 edition of an important but almost unknown work. When Atwood made her suggestive inquiry into what was termed The Hermetic Mystery, she supposed that the adept Hieophants put the candidate into a deep trance and his soul was led into something that was for her the Supreme Oneness of everything.
PART I. AN EXOTERIC VIEW OF THE PROGRESS AND THEORY OF ALCHEMY
A Preliminary Account of the Hermetic Philosophy, with the more salient points of its Public History
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Of the Theory of Transmutation in General, and of the First Matter
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The Golden Treatise of Hermes Trismegistus concerning the Physical Secret of the Philosopher's Stone, in Seven Sections
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PART II. A MORE ESOTERIC CONSIDERATION OF THE HERMETIC ART AND ITS MYSTERIES
Of the True Subject of the Hermetic Art and its Concealed Root
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Of the Mysteries
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The Mysteries continued
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The Mysteries concluded
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PART III. CONCERNING THE LAWS AND VITAL CONDITIONS OF THE HERMETIC EXPERIMENT
Of the Experimental Method and Fermentation of the Philosophic Subject according to the Paracelsian Alchemists and some others
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A further Analysis of the Initial Principle and its Education into Light
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Of the Manifestation of the Philosophic Matter
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Of the Mental Requisites and Impediments incidental to Individuals, either as Masters or Students, in the Hermetic Art
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PART IV. THE HERMETIC PRACTICE
Of the Vital Purification, commonly called the Gross Work
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