Vol. 27: The Vegetable Work of Hollandus

    Johannes Isaac Hollandus (late sixteenth Century) is said to have been the two Isaacs Hollandus, father and son, Dutch adepts, who wrote De Triplici Ordinari Exiliris et Lapidis Theoria, Mineralia Opera Sue de Lapide Philosophico and other works on Alchemy. The details of their operations on metals may be the most explicit that have been given in writing.

    This is one of the best and most easily understood books on the vegetable work.

     

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    Author: Johannes Isaac Hollandus

    Editor: Philip Wheeler

    Language: English

    Color: Black & White

    Paperback:  244 pages

    THE VEGETABLE WORK

    JOHANNES ISAAC HOLLANDUS

     

    CHAPTER I

     

     

    Now I will teach and describe the secret of the arts, which secret is at the heart of all secrets hidden in the art of alchemy; since one will here understand the wonderful works that God has accomplished in all the things he has made out of the four elements. For I shall here teach you to know the spirits of herbs, trees, and all growing things; how to separate them from their bodies, and also how to purify the four elements and to restore them to their first being and their perfect power; that is, that when the elements are purified, how they can be put together again and make a perfect and fixed body of them, which is then glorified and has a miraculous effect. Enough of this for now.