From the Preface: ‘’It is advanced that the monastic character assumed by Basil Valentine was simply a veil and an evasion to conceal his real identity, and, further, that his name was a pseudonym which was Hermetic and allegorical in its significance.
With the Commentary of Theodore Kerckringius, a Doctor of Medicine. Being the Latin Version published at Amsterdam in the Year 1685 translated into English, with a biographical Preface by Arthur Edward Waite.
Contents: Biographical Preface; Dedication; Dedicatory Epistle; To the Reader; The Triomphal Chariot of Antimony; Appendix; On the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, and the Nature of the Fire Stone; Index.
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