Hermetic Museum Main Index

Hermetic Museum Index VOL. I | VOL. II

This is the main index for Arthur Edward Waite's Hermetic Museum. This is one of the largest collections of Alchemical tracts, first published in Latin in 1678. Waite translated it into English and issued it in two volumes in 1893. It appears in its entirety here on the Internet for the first time. Full bibliographic information can be found via either one of the volume index pages, (here, and here).

VOLUME I

Title Page Preface to the English Edition Preface to Latin Original Contents of Volume I The Golden Tract Concerning the Stone of the Philosophers The Golden Age Restored The Sophic Hydrolith A Demonstration of Nature A Short Tract or Philosophical Summary The Only True Way The Glory of the World; or, Table of Paradise A Tract of Great Price The Book of Alze The Book of Lambspring The Golden Tripod

VOLUME II

Title Page Table of Contents Believe-Me, or The Ordinal of Alchemy The Testament of Cremer The New Chemical Light New Chemical Light An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy

The Three Treatises of Philalethes

Title and Contents I. The Metamorphosis of Metals II. A Brief Guide to the Celestial Ruby III. The Fount of Chemical Truth

Helvetius’ Golden Calf The All-Wise Doorkeeper or A Fourfold Figure Addendum