Occult & Esoterica
[HURLEY, Phillip] Herbal Alchemy
[HURLEY, Phillip] Herbal Alchemy
Chicago: Lotus Publications, 1977. 2nd printing. Softcover. Octavo. 100pp. With b&w illustrations. A near fine copy.
Chapter headings: The Hermetic Philosophy: Theory and Practice; Elemental Transmutation; The Alchemists Laboratory; The Herbal Elixir: Of It's Nature, Uses, and Correspondences; Planetary Principles: Their Analogies and Virtues in the Vegetable Kingdom; Salt, Sulpher (sic), and Mercury; Preparing the Menstruum; Extracting the Herbal Elixer (sic); Medicinal Use of the Elixers (sic); Magical Impregnation of the Elixers (sic); The Grand Arcanum; Production of the Divine Cinnabar; Concerning the Four Degrees of Heat; Sove et Coagula; plus bibliography. An informative work.