Alchemical Essays

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Softcover. 8vo. 288pp. Stiff card covers with printed inner flaps. Alchemical Essays succinctly encapsulates the wisdom of the Hermetic Adepts, exploring the interface between alchemy, science, spagyrics, and archemy. In his first publication on the Great Work, Australian doctor, scientist, antiquarian, and operative alchemist, Ross Mack, translates and equates that contained within classical alchemical literature with the latest findings of the physical, chemical and cosmological branches of science. From DNA, dark energy, dark matter, and superconductors to Philosophical Mercury, Basil Valentine’s Currus Triumphalis Antimonii, bhasma medicines, and the Smaragdine Table of Hermes Trismegistus, Dr. Mack generously shares the fruits of a lifetime devoted to enquiry and the pursuit of the good path. As Paul Hardacre says in his preface, Dr. Mack “… purports that science is edging closer to understanding Nature, and that the essential, yet missing, components of understanding are to be found within the philosophia perennis et universalis … that the understanding which has eluded many of the greatest scientific minds throughout recorded history has been known by alchemists for a very long time.” Visionary, revelatory and complemented by full colour plates, Alchemical Essays is a sincere, practical and thoughtprovoking treasure for readers “with a desire to search everywhere and to learn everything.” Dr. Ross Mack is an operative alchemist with more than 30 years of experience. His personal pursuit of alchemy has driven him through several academic degrees, including osteopathy, medicine, natural medicine, herbal medicine, a PhD in Analytical Chemistry, and seven years of alchemical studies with Frater Albertus Spagyricus, in both Salt Lake City and Australia.