A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels

Description

A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels is a text by sixteenth-century German alchemist Benedictus Figulus. The original title was Pandora magnalium naturalium aurea et benedicta, and the subtitle is 'Concerning The Blessed Mystery of the Philosopher’s Stone, Containing the Revelation of the Most Illuminated Egyptian King and Philosopher, Hermes Trismegistus, Translated by our German Hermes, the Noble Beloved Monarch and Philosopher Trismegistus, A. Ph. Theophrastus Paracelsica, With an Excellent Explanation by the Noble and Learned Philosopher, Alexander von Suchten, M.D.; Together with Certain hitherto Unpublished Treatises, By this Author, And Also Other Corollaries of the Same Matter, As Specified in the Preface. Now Published for the Use and benefit of all Sons of the Doctrine of Hermes, By Benedictus Figulus, of Utenhofen'.

This book has 55,568 words, and 95 pages in the PDF version. This translation by Arthur Edward Waite was originally published in 1893.

Production notes: This ebook of A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels was published by Global Grey in 2019, and updated on the 10th September 2023. The artwork used for the cover is 'The Alchemist' by David Teniers the Younger.