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Please note - does not include dust jacket
Taking the artificially-created anthropoid as its theme, Codex Homunculi gathers together some of the most obscure and ancient texts hermeticism on what is arguably one of the most taboo and heretical operations of the Alchemical Art. Although some of the treatises represented, such as those of Paracelsus, are well known, other texts are translated here for the very first time.
New English Translations
Theophrastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus):
Liber de Homunculis
Liber de Imaginibus
Liber de Natis Animalibus ex Sodomia
Ex Libro de Imaginatione
Gerhard Dorn:
Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi: Homunculus
Alonso Tostado:
Librum Paradoxarum: Paradoxon Primum
pseudo-Plato:
Liber Vaccæ
Heinrich Khunrath:
The Hermaphrodite
Jābir ibn Hayyān:
takwn (Kitāb al-tajmīʿ)
Muhammad ibn Umail:
Kitāb H.all ar-Rumūz
Zhang Boduan, Wu Shouyang:
The Embryo of Sainthood
Early Modern English Translations
Paracelsus:
Of the Generations of Naturall Things
Oswald Croll:
Præfatio Admonitoria, chs. ii, iii
Michael Sendivogius:
A New Light of Alchymie
Jakob Böhme:
The Shaping of the Magical Child
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus:
The Divine Pymander · Asclepius
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim:
de Occulta Philosophia Libri iii
Does not include dust jacket.
Please note - does not include dust jacket
Taking the artificially-created anthropoid as its theme, Codex Homunculi gathers together some of the most obscure and ancient texts hermeticism on what is arguably one of the most taboo and heretical operations of the Alchemical Art. Although some of the treatises represented, such as those of Paracelsus, are well known, other texts are translated here for the very first time.
New English Translations
Theophrastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus):
Liber de Homunculis
Liber de Imaginibus
Liber de Natis Animalibus ex Sodomia
Ex Libro de Imaginatione
Gerhard Dorn:
Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi: Homunculus
Alonso Tostado:
Librum Paradoxarum: Paradoxon Primum
pseudo-Plato:
Liber Vaccæ
Heinrich Khunrath:
The Hermaphrodite
Jābir ibn Hayyān:
takwn (Kitāb al-tajmīʿ)
Muhammad ibn Umail:
Kitāb H.all ar-Rumūz
Zhang Boduan, Wu Shouyang:
The Embryo of Sainthood
Early Modern English Translations
Paracelsus:
Of the Generations of Naturall Things
Oswald Croll:
Præfatio Admonitoria, chs. ii, iii
Michael Sendivogius:
A New Light of Alchymie
Jakob Böhme:
The Shaping of the Magical Child
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus:
The Divine Pymander · Asclepius
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim:
de Occulta Philosophia Libri iii
Does not include dust jacket.