Bizarre Tuesday on HolyBooks.com: The Voynich Manuscript and CODEX Serahinianus

Longtime friends of HolyBooks.com will recognize that I have weakness for the more peculiar works and I post them here regardless of their spiritual attributes in admiration of human creativity. Today I have two of these goodies for you and if you are into this, you will not be disappointed. These two works have one [...]

Pharmako Poeia – The Salvia Divinorum chapter – by Dale Pendell

This is just one chapter from Dale Pendells impressing trilogy: Pharmako Poeia, Pharmako Gnosis and Pharmako Dynamis. These books are not public domain text, but the chapter on Salvia Divinorum from Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft are available for free. The works have an interesting way of approaching the plant world from more angles. [...]

A TREATISE ON The Great Art – A SYSTEM OF PHYSICS ACCORDING TO HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE MAGISTERIUM.

A Treatise on the Great Art is an important Alchemy work. Hermetism is explained as not solely concerned with the transmutation of metals, but also with the spiritual emancipation of Man. From the foreword: “Some have profited by a few analogies which presented themselves, and have created a mystical Alchemy in which the inner man [...]

A Chymicall treatise of the Ancient and highly illuminated Philosopher Arnoldus de Nova

This alchemy text was published in 1611. From the intro: “A Chymicall treatise of the Ancient and highly illuminated Philosopher, Devine and Physitian, Arnoldus de Nova Villa who lived 400 years agoe, never seene in print before, but now by a Lover of the Spagyrick art made publick for the use of Learners.” Download the [...]

A General Look at Alchemy

This ebook is an introduction to the origin of alchemy. Starting with the “Father of Alcemy” Hermes Trismegistus, an Egyptian Sage from an unknown period, trough Biblical figures, the Rosicrucians and to our days practises of alchemy. The book also describes a series of concepts found in texts related to alchemy such as: The seven [...]