Preface

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^HAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
PROVO, UTAH

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SUGGESTIVE INQUIRY

INTO

HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY

AND

ALCHEMY.

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SUGGESTIVE INQUIRY

INTO

THE HERMETIC MYSTERY

WITH

A DISSERTATION

ON THE

Above Celebrated of tbe Hlcbemical philosophers

BEING

AN ATTEMPT TOWARDS THE RECOVERY

OF THE

ANCIENT EXPERIMENT OF NATURE.

A NEW EDITION:

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

WALTER LESLIE WILMSHURST.

ALSO AN

APPENDIX CONTAINING THE MEMORABILIA OF
MARY ANNE ATWOOD.

With Photogravure Portrait of the Authoress.

Belfast :
WILLIAM TA1T, 87 Marlborough Park North.

London: J. M. \V ATKINS, 21 Cecil Court, W.C.
I9I8.

THE LIBRARY
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIWRSITY
PROVO.

to the memory of its authoress,

Mary Anne Atwcod,

this re-issue of her work,

" a suggestive inquiry into the hermetic

MYSTERY,"

IS DEDICATED

BY HER DEVOTED FRIEND,

ISABELLE DE STEIGER.

INTRODUCTION.

Alchemy is philosophy ; it is the philosophy, the seeking out of The
Sophia in the mind."*

This is the re-issue of a book with a strange history ; a