Occult & Esoterica
[PARACELSUS] The Archidoxes of Magic
[PARACELSUS] The Archidoxes of Magic
Introduction by Stephen Skinner
London/New York: Askin Publishers/Samuel Weiser, 1975. Second English Edition. Hardcover. Octavo.Blacl cloth with gilt spine titles. In original dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece. [5] introduction by Stephen Skinner; 18 + 164 pages. Illustrated with sigils and seals. Short closed tear to upper right front of dust jacket, otherwise a very good or better copy in like jacket.
A facsimile reprint of the original English language edition of 1616. A classic source work of mediaeval magic which gives complete sets of zodiacal lamens, characters and planetary sigils, with full details of their manufacture and consecration, and much more. The sections on Alchemy include details of the planetary spirits, the conjunction on the Male and Female principles and each step on the Path of the Tincture: one of the most accurate descriptions in the whole Hermetic canon. The works of Paracelsus here include: Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature; Of the Spirits of the Planets; Of the Secrets of Alchemy; Of Occult Philosophy; The Mysteries of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac; The Magical Cure of Diseases; Of Celestial Medicines.