Arthur Edward Waite

Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers

Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers is a book by British mystic Arthur Edward Waite, first published in 1888. The subtitle of which is: 'Based on Materials Collected in 1815 and Supplemented by Recent Researches; With a Philosophical Demonstration of the True Principles of the Magnum Opus, or Great Work of Alchemical Re-Construction, and Some Account of the Spiritual Chemistry. To which is added a Bibliography of Alchemy and Hermetic Philosophy'. The author, who wrote extensively on occult subjects, here gives accounts of the lives of famous and not-so-famous alchemy philosophers, such as Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, Arnold de Villanova, Nicholas Flamel, Basil Valentine, Paracelsus, John Dee, Eirenæus Philalethes, and many more.