This is a book to live with, an alchemist's pillow book. A good picture is worth much more than a thousand words. Roob presents captions to these figures closely following interpretations of Eugene Canseliet, pupil of the legendary alchemist Fulcanelli. Both disciplines pursue the central goal of unconditional Being framed by elements and principles emanating from and returning back into cosmic wholeness. Alchemists through the ages have attempted two dimensional geometric projection of the archetypal process of Nature in mystic diagrams which serve as superb supports for intensive meditation.
Concise explanations clarify bewildering arrangement of forms.
The presence of glorified sages, unknown saints and exalted adepts emerges from these pages to lift the casual reader beyond the confines of ordinary consciousness. Fusion of tin, atomic number 50, with copper, atomic number 29, produces gold, atomic number 79. Adept alchemists understand forced fusion of this kind to be nothing less than rape. This violent manipulation counts among the most abominable crimes conceivable. Correctly executed hermetic work is neither a team effort nor a spectator sport.