The Turba Philosophorum


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The Turba Philosophorum , or Assembly of the Sages. An Ancient Alchemical Treatise, with the chief Readings of the Shorter Codex. Parallels from Greek Alchemists. and Explanations of obscure terms. Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by A.E. Waite. A great symposium or debate of the Adepts assembled in convocation. The work ranks next to Gober as a fountain-head of alchemy in Western Europe. It reects the earliest Byzantine, Syrian and Arabian writers. This famous work is accorded the highest place among the works of Alchemical Philosophy which are available for the students in the English language.




The Turba Philosophorum


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The Turba Philosophorum, Or Assembly of the Sages, Called Also the Book of Truth in the Art and the Third Pythagorical Synod; an Ancient Alchemical Treatise Translated From the Latin, the Chief Readings of the Shorter Codex, Parallels From the Greek...


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The Turba Philosophorum


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The Turba Philosophorum , or Assembly of the Sages. An Ancient Alchemical Treatise, with the chief Readings of the Shorter Codex. Parallels from Greek Alchemists. and Explanations of obscure terms. Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by A.E. Waite. A great symposium or debate of the Adepts assembled in convocation. The work ranks next to Gober as a fountain-head of alchemy in Western Europe. It reflects the earliest Byzantine, Syrian and Arabian writers. This famous work is accorded the highest place among the works of Alchemical Philosophy which are available for the students in the English language.




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The Turba Philosophorum


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The Turba Philosophorum (Or, Assembly of the Sages), also called: Book of Truth in the Art and the Third Pythagorical Synod, was edited and translated from Guglielmo Gratarolo's Latin edition by American-born British poet, mystic, occultist, and esotericist Arthur Edward Waite, and published in English in 1896.The Turba Philosophorum is estimated to have been written around 900 A.D., by an unknown author, and attempted to translate Greek alchemy into Arabic, and adapt its methods towards the Islamic sciences. The work consists of a discussion between nine philosophers: Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Archelaus, Leucippus, Ecphantus, Pythagoras and Xenophanes. They discuss matter, its behaviour, and how this relates to cosmology.