The Alchemist's Handbook

A Practical Manual

By: Frater Albertus, Robert Allen Bartlett - foreword

Narrated by: Preston Geer

A renowned modern-day classic on the actual practice of alchemy.

The Alchemist's Handbook has long been an essential contribution to the study of alchemy since its first publication in 1960. It still stands as a groundbreaking work presenting in clear, concise language a practical manual of working knowledge that was formerly handed down under oath of secrecy. The scope of alchemical work is to provide both a means to synthesize all the other sciences and the necessary training of the intellectual and spiritual faculties.

The Alchemist's Handbook discusses in detail:

• The basic fundamental principles of alchemy.
• A guide to the formation of an inexpensive home laboratory.
• Step-by-step instructions for the work of the Lesser Circulation, the alchemical transformation within the plant kingdom.

This edition includes a new foreword by Robert Allen Bartlett, author of Real Alchemy.

©1974, 2022 The estate of Frater Albertus (P)2022 Tantor

Wonderful

I'm so happy to finally figure out what it is I've been trying to do for the past several years. I have a few Alchemy books in the mail and I look forward to learning more.

Enlightening

Well read, wonder-full content , I have been searching for this information, lovely to have it in audio

The reader sound exasperated and fed up with the reader

What is going on? It’s like the guy just can’t stand humans. I was going to give him a pass if it was the author, but it’s not. Just a professional reader who… hates reading?

Great book… I enjoyed it very much

I knew some information but have learned much more and will continue with learning more.

Dangerous Retrogression

In addition to quibbling about the semantic definition of the word "element," Frater Albertus complains that modern medical inquiry on the whole is not open-minded enough to accept the ideas he presents. The fact is that scientific inquiry has considered alchemy—pace, Albertus: Paracelsus and Galen were once considered great minds of their time, and drawing faulty analogies to physicists does not diminish that—and has abandoned it as being unscientific (in that it clings to different conclusions than those repeatedly observed under experimental conditions and in that it maintains untestable claims) and potentially dangerous. As an example of the latter, Albertus also expresses a favorable opinion of the principles of homeopathy, recommending in one instance as a cure for arsenic poisoning (to paraphrase): "just add a bit more arsenic!"

Regression is never the way forward.

The narrator was fine, bar an occasional mispronunciation; his cadence and tone helped make even the most bizarre passages of the content easy to digest.