The Philosopher's Stone: Spiritual Alchemy, Psychology, and Ritual Magic

by Israel Regardie, Chic Cicero (Editor), Sandra Tabatha Cicero (Editor)

A new edition of Regardie's classic text

In the mid-1930s, Israel Regardie had an insight into understanding alchemical writings. The result was The Philosopher's Stone, where he analyzed three 17th-century alchemical works symbolically, psychologically, and via magickal energy.

Now, famed occultists Chic and Tabatha Cicero bring this book into the 21st century. The original is completely reproduced here. The Hebrew transliterations have been updated with modern styles and the text is fully annotated and explained. Added are these new features:

New introduction • New illustrations • Biographical Dictionary • Glossary • Resource list • Bibliography • Index

Plus five new original articles
• "The Spiritual Alchemy of the Golden Dawn" by Chic Cicero
• "Intro to Alchemy: A Golden Dawn Perspective by Mark Stavish
• Basic Alchemy for the Golden Dawn" and "Golden Dawn Ritual and Alchemy" by Samuel Scarborough
• "The Elixir of the Sun" by Steven Marshall
• "Solve et Coagula: The Wedding of Sol and Luna" by the Ciceros

Genres: Alchemy, Occult, Nonfiction, Psychology, Philosophy, Magick, Spirituality

552 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1970

About the author

Israel Regardie (born Francis Israel Regudy) was considered by many to be the last living Adept of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. At an early age, Regardie worked as Aleister Crowley's personal secretary. In addition to his extensive writings, Regardie practiced as a chiropractor and as a neo-Reichian therapist. He taught psychiatry at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic and contributed articles to many psychology magazines.

Reviews

[Äsruþr Cyneaþsson · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting work from Regardie. I always find the meshing of Jungian psychology with magical initiation to be one of the prime draw to Regardie. This book held true to this association and was extremely interesting when read in comparison with Jung's own work on alchemy.

The sections on practical alchemy of metals etc. were less interesting to myself and detracted from the overall impact of the book.

[C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of it was a bit dry for me not having a lot of experience with old alchemical text. however, regardie's commentary was great and there are several little gems here within.

[Stacia Dinkens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dry. Overly psychologizes alchemy.