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SPLENDOR SOLIS
Alchemical Treatises
OF
SOLOMON TRISMOSIN
ADEPT AND TEACHER OF PARACELSUS
Including 22 Allegorical Pictures Reproduced from the Original
Paintings in the Unique Manuscript on Vellum,
dated 1582, in the British Museum.
With Introduction, Elucidation of the Paintings, aiding the
Interpretation of their Occult meaning, Trismosin's Autobiographical Account of his Travels in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, A SUMMARY OF HIS ALCHEMICAL PROCESS CALLED
" THE RED LION,"
and
BY J.K.
LONDON:
KEGAN PAUL. TRENCH. TRUBNER & CO.. LTD.,
Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane, E.C. 4.
To THE Eternal Memory of
JOSEPH WALLACE
Mystic, Healer, and Revealer of
Occult Truth.
My Revered Teacher and Friend
I Dedicate this Book in which he was Deeply Interested
J.K.
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INTRODUCTORY.
HEN in the period of the Renaissance, men's minds were waking from the long sleep of mediaeval darkness, Solomon Trismosin, one of the less known Adepts of Alchemy, went forth in search of that secret knowledge, the possession of which leads to Alchemical Adeptship. His romantic
Wanderings in Quest of the Philosopher's Stone, he has himself described, and if he declares to have reached that
Eldorado of Hermetic Knowledge wherein is found the priz…