The Alchemical Texts

This group holds texts of the alchemical tradition, the writings of the alchemists who sought the transmutation of metals and, in the spiritual reading, the transformation of the practitioner. Alchemical texts are famously written in coded, allegorical language, dense with symbolic imagery.

The browser will find the works the atlas gathers here. The entries describe each text's teaching and place in the tradition, noting the debated boundary between practical laboratory alchemy and its inner, spiritual interpretation.