Alchemy--Diversity of opinion on the object of alchemical science, 9; the avowed object, 10; the aim said to be concealed, 11; symbolism of the science, 11; distinction between alchemy and chemistry, 21; alchemy as a factor in the progress of the physical sciences, 27; physical nature of the alchemical aim established by the lives and writings of the adepts, 29; side issues of alchemical theories, 32; application of alchemy to the extension of life, 65; modification of the human body by alchemy, 65; alchemy the science of the four elements, 93; the Seal of God set on the secret of alchemy, 165 Alfarabi, 48 Alipili, 22, 23 Altotas, 221, 234 Ancient War of the Knights, 43 Anima Magica Abscondita, 21 Anonymous adept, 184 Antimony, Basil Valentine’s preparation for the study of, 17; the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, 121 Aphrodite Urania, 37 Apono, Peter d’, 88 Aquinas, St Thomas, 61 Argent Vive--Reduction of metals into sophic Argent Vive, 87; the Medicine of all Metals, 90; the first thing to be ascertained in alchemy is the significance of this term, 92 Arnold de Villanova, 88 Ars Lulliana, 68 Avicenna, 51 Azoth, or The Star in the East, a forthcoming work on the psychic potencies which enter into the higher act of transmutation, on the mysteries of spiritual chemistry, and on the possibilities of practical transcendentalism, 37 Bacon, Roger, 63 Balsamo, Joseph, Travels, Adventures, and Imprisonments, 220 Basil, Valentine, 120 Belin, Albert, 186 Berigard of Pisa, 148 Bird, William, unknown adept, 150 Böhme, Jacob, 161 Bono, Peter, 118 Borri, Guiseppe Francesco, 208 Botticher, John Frederich, neophyte, 212 Braccesco, Giovanni, 151 Busardier, unknown adept, 182 Butler, 168 Cagliostro, Count Allesandro, name assumed by Balsamo, 230 Calcination, an alchemical process, 13, 19 Canons of Espagnet, 19 Charnock, Thomas, 148 Chemistry, said to have no connection with alchemy, 14; distinction between alchemy and chemistry, 21, 25; a counter view, 44 Contemplation, a preparation for alchemical practices, 18 Cremer, John, pseudo-abbot of Westminster, 83 Dalton, Thomas, 133 Dee, John, 153 Delisle, 216 D’Espagnet, Jean, 170; on the obstacles which beset the alchemist, 39 Diana Unveiled, 180 Dissolution, an alchemical process, 12 Dominic, St, said to have been an adept, 58 Dubois, descendant of Flamel, 114 Dunstan, St, Book of, 154, 155 Egyptian Masonry, 245, 250, and Appendix II. Elias the Artist, 193 Eliphas Lévi, 82 Elixir, the White and Red, 195 _Étoile Flamboyante_, 59 Eugenius Philalethes, 21, 31, 189 Exaltation, an alchemical process, 32 Fabre, Pierre Jean, 200 Ferarius, 92 Figuier, Louis, alchemical critic, 27, 63 Fioravanti, Leonardi, 153 Flamel, Nicholas, 95 Fontaine, John, 129