With Annotations of Theodore Kirkringus. Basil Valentine is an unidentified German-language author of alchemical writings that have survived in prints since 1599 and in manuscripts since the early 17th century. They have been reprinted several times, annotated and translated into several European languages(Wikipedia). Arthur Edward Waite said about him: ‘’It is advanced that the monastic character assumed by Basil Valentine was simply a veil and an evasion to conceal his real identity, and, further, that his name was a pseudonym which was Hermetic and allegorical in its significance’’. And concerning the subject matter of the Triumphal Chariot: ‘’It will be seen by the general reader, who has an elementary acquaintance with the properties of Antimony, that the account of Basil Valentine is correct, not only as to general characteristics, but in many points of detail’’.
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