Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler tr. by Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] Contents Start Reading Nature, which is never not lavish of herself, after a lying-in of two thousand years, has finally brought you forth in these last generations, the first true images of the universe. By means of your concords of various voices, and through your…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe by Alexandre Koyré Contents Start Reading Page Index Text [Zipped] The infinite Universe of the New Cosmology, infinite in Duration as well as in Extension, in which eternal matter in accordance with eternal and necessary laws moves endlessly and aimlessly in eternal space, inherited all the ontological attributes of Divinity. Yet only…
Pow-Wows or Long Lost Friend By John George Hoffman [1820] Contents Start Reading Page Index Text [Zipped] Written by a Pennsylvania Dutch healer in the 1820s, this book is a rambling collection of rural home remedies and folk invocations. Pow-wow is a unique creole of Christian theology and a shamanistic belief system. It is still practiced in some rural…
The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists.By Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, Paracelsus the Great NATURE begets a mineral in the bowels of the earth. There are two kinds of it, which are found in many districts of Europe. The best which has been offered to me, which also has been found genuine in experimentation, is externally in the figure of the greater…
Aureus or the Golden Tractate of Hermes Section I Even thus saith Hermes: Through long years I have not ceased to experiment, neither have I have spared any labour of mind And this science and art I have obtained by the sole inspiration of the living God, who judged fit to open them to me His servant, who has given…
The secret work of the hermetic philosophy Wherein the secrets of nature and art concerning the matter of the philosophers’ stone and the manner of working are explained in an authentic and orderly manner. The work of an anonymous author, penes nos unda tagi. 1. The beginning of this Divine Science is the fear of the Lord and its end…
Friar B A C O N H I S DISCOVERY O F T H E M I R A C L E S A R T, Of N A T U R E, And M A G I C K.Faithfully translated out of Dr Dees own Copy, by T.M. and never before in English. L O N D O N, Printed…