FREE BOOKS

Interesting websites for free books :


http://www.occult-underground.com/alchemy.html


http://www.revistaazogue.com/biblio.htm


http://sacred-texts.com/alc/index.htm


http://www.alchemywebsite.com/texts.html


http://www.esotericarchives.com/esoteric.htm


 http://www.rexresearch.com/alchindx.htm

http://www.ebooks4free.net/esoterica.php

French TV on Alchemy

DVDs on old Hermetical Writing

I have not yet buy these DVDs but the titles seems interesting :


http://www.alchemy-books.com/index


If someone have a commentary about the The Phoenix Library let me know please, thanks !

A valuable collection of original manuscripts full of classics in the field of Alchemy, Magick and Astrology, from the 15th through to18th Century. With an interactive interface, finding, reading and printing the books is made easy.
The library of Alchemy books offer all the wisdom and source material an alchemist needs for successful experimentation in the Spagyric and Alchemical realm. Most of the content is focused on attaining the Philosopher's Stone, the legendary Elixir of Life. These books also teach how to prepare alchemical elixirs, tinctures and essences from herbs, gems and metals.
The library of Magick books instruct in the casting of spells, invocations and magickal rites. Diagrams of Talismans, Amulets and Sigils are illustrated throughout. A great reference library of general occult philosophy for magicians or wiccans alike.
The library of Astrology books reveal how medieval Astrology was practiced according to the ancient adepts and soothsayers. Instructs in the casting of Square Horoscopes, Natal charts, Predictive Astrology and more. A must for serious astrologers.

These e-books are scanned from microfilm copies of the original documents, therefore they are not text-editable but are high resolution images in PDF format for easy reading. It's as if you had the book right there, which reduces the risk of translation errors that may have occurred in the last few centuries. All books are in English.

Introducing another Friend & Brother of the Art.

I 'met' Petros after a research on the Rosarium Philosophorum, after seeing his alchemical photo album of great interest with nice photos about - of course - alchemical process, and also several faces in the rocks, rock art like this :

I invite you to take a look at it.

All photos are from Petros picasa album.

Thank you Petros for your nice work and your sharing !

Google books and sometime the poor quality of Scanning

Google book make a great job, but when you do something like that, you should try to have quality of image that is good.

In the books they offer, some words are cutted, missing pages, and sometime the pdf cannot even display 10, 20 or more pages ! (not the fault of google there, surely the Dl occured bad) how is it possible, I don't know, just ask the big google machine.

So, each time I Dl a book from google, I have to check if something is missing, if the book is important, I make screen prints in order to have the text.

Alchemical Process of De La Brie

Some of you have maybe read the document in R.A.M.S called "PROCESS". This document is said to speak about the antimony dry path, and also about the story of the Alchemist De La Brie.
I made some researches. And finally I've found the book where Bacstrom found this story several centuries ago :
Histoire des Indes orientales‎ by Souchu de Rennefort - 1688
Page 245 the story begin.
I know that for a person not speaking french it is not easy to understand, if you know a little french, it is more easy if you read it out loud and then you can hear the sound made by the words, which can give you the real french word, like : "fçavent" f is a s, ç is s too, so "savent" = savoir, to know.

Chapitre XIX.


Copie de l'écrit du Philofophe.

Souvenez-vous que ce que je vous ay dit, fe rapporte à ce que vous trouverez ecrit.
Diffolvez le plus fimple & le plus vil par le plus penétrant , fubli mez-les par le plus fubtil. Le plus fimple & le plus vil deviendra le plus pénétrant & le plus fubtil. Purifiez fa crudité par les les douces haleines d'un vent d'Orient, & vivifiez fa putrefaction par celles du vent du Midy. Il eftoit mort, il eft tellement refliifcité , que fon corps eft vif d'un côté , fon efprit l'eft de l'autre, tous deux contenans corps & efprit ; l'un contenant l'efprit fous fon corps , l'autre le corps fous fon efprit. Pour en faire une génération immortelle, mariez-les de forte que le corps ne foit pas noyé par l'efprit, ny l'efprit opprimé par le corps. Faites le vent proportionné à voftre Vaiffeau, qui doit eftre de chefne doublé de criftal, augmentez-le , & au lieu d'une voile que vous aviez 1 eftendez-en deux lors que vous ferez en plaine Mer, il y a moins de danger qu'aux côtes, où font ordinan rement les éciïeils & les rochers. Et quand vous croirez n'avoir plus que pour un mois de chemin à faire pour arriver fous le Zodiaque, enflez trois voiles & pouflez. Il eft difficile d'y parvenir. Prenez deux fois plus de vent qu'en partant, vous y viendrez fans manquer , s'il n'a point ce/îé. Si vous l'avez perdu feulement pour une heure, recommencez vôtre route; car dans ce voyage, le mefme vent doit
régner régner par attraction de plus fort en plus fort. Vous ne pouvez jamais retrouver ce qu'il vous en faut, que vous ne le repreniez au premier Port dans un autre Vaifleau tout neuf en toutes fes parties. Si vous arrivez bien , vous trouverez par la vertu du mouvement du vent & des Aftres, toute celle du Soleil attachée à v ôtre matiere au fond de vôtre Vaifleau : une Poudre qui guérit toutes les maladies qui font des poles à la ligne Equinoâiale, & une Terre qui contient tout ce qu'il y a de précieux: mais il faut la joindre à la Nature déterminée de ce que vous voulez faire paroître. Servez-vous de la Poudre avec prudence , il en faut autant pour en ufer, que d'art & de patience à la perfectionner, & donnez de la Terre à ceux qui en ont befoin , particulierement fi leur cœur n'y eft pas attaché. Si vous en ufez felon le deffein du Créateur, vous vivrez, vous ferez vivre les autres, & vous multiplierez vos œuvres par la vertu du corps glorifié , & du mefme efprit qui vous a guidé dés le commencement.
 
We clearly see that the Alchemist used several terms in link with sailing in order to use the same language thant the Admiral De Rennefort.

Dangers of Alchemy, archemy &c

Dangers ... one of our brother and friend, lastly could be seriously and permanently injured by a very powerful explosion in it's lab. He is experimented, and know what he is doing, he's not a dabbler. 
No need to say that the apparatus is now into peices, ... in the walls and ceiling ! He was a meter in front of the explosion. He told me that a moment of inattention (he was on the phone), and BHAM ! The temperature was too much high for a second. Fortunately for him, no physiscal injuries, unscathed ! But the shock was very profound in it's mind.

I do understand that, because we act with confidence. But the day we are injured it is something else.
We can have a moment of doubt, and this warning is important. SECURITY FIRST !!

Lastly, 3 weeks ago, I was holding a vessel, with very reactive alcaline subtance in it (NaOH), like my friend, my attention were somewhere else for a second, and pfffffssssssssssiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhhhhh the temp rised to I think more than 100 °C in the second, the cap, by the pressure raised in my hand, letting the burning vapours burning my flesh with the boiling alcaline water. It took 2 weeks to heal totally.

So yes, it happens, like a casting crucible not enough hot, where the fused metal just began to behave like a boiling oil, jumping on my feets and everywhere around.

How many times, cutting wood, my visor just saved my eyes from jumping peices of wood !

So, yes, you really have to be careful, to have a good material, well prepared, and physical protections, like gloves, eyeshades etc.

My friend send me some photos of the T shirt he was wearing during the lab big bang:
Here and here. Full of holes !