Volume Edizioni S R L : 57 books

"In the Vault", first published in 1925 on press journal Tryout, is a short story by the master of horror fiction H.P.Lovecraft about an undertaker imprisoned in a village vault where he was removing winter coffins for spring burial,and his escape by enlarging a transom reached by the piling up of the coffins.

"The golden tractate" (Aureus) by Hermes Trismegistus is a classic text of Hermetic and ancient Philosophy about natural and divine magic; it will strongly influence the later Alchemic literature.

"A Treatise of Mercury and the Philosophers Stone" is one of the most important alchemic text by George Ripley where the author explains the practice of the Alchemy and its secrets.  From the text: "I will, my dearest Son, instruct thee in this Blessed Science, Which was hid from...

"Aula Lucis" (The House of Light) by the welsh alchemist T.Vaughan is a text about natural magic and a classic of Hermetic literature.

"The Vision" is a short alchemic poetry by the famous english alchemist George Ripley. This work is enriched by an exposition upon "The Vision" written by the alchemists Philalethes, Anglus and Cosmopolita.

For Hermes said of this Science: Alchemy is a Corporal Science simply composed of one and by one, naturally conjoining things more precious, by knowledge and effect, and converting them by a natural commixtion into a better kind. A certain other said: Alchemy is a Science, teaching how to transform...

"The Treasure of the Alchemists" is an alchemic operative text by Paracelsus. Index: .The Treasure of the Alchemists .Concerning the Sulphur of Cinnabar .Concerning the Red Lion .Concerning the Green Lion

"The Six Keys" by the Greek astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus is a classic alchemic text about six ways to complete the opus.

The biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus (486-587) by the master of horror fiction H.P.Lovecraft first published in 1938 on O-Wash-Ta-Nong

"Liber Secretissumus" is the masterpiece by George Ripley where the author explains "The Whole Work of the Composition of the Philosophical Stone and grand Elixir, and of the First Solution of the Grosse Bodies".

The Rosarium philosophorum or Rosary of the philosophers, originally written in the 16th century, is one of the most important texts of European alchemy. 

"Rosicrucian Aphorisms and Process" by Sigismund Bacstrom is an hermetic text about the rosicrucian alchemic process: starting from rosicrucian aphorisms Bacstrom explains the process of the Opus. Index: .Rosicrucian Aphorisms and Process .APHORISMI .Operis maximi Antiquorum Sapientium .PROCESS...

"The Divine Pymander" by Hermes Trismegistus is a text, presented as dialogues between the master (Hermes) and his disciples. It is a tractate practical in nature about the purification of the soul, the ancient Egypt's natural magic and theurgy. This version is the translation by John Everard.

The tale "The dragon and the poet" by Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) is the story of the meeting between the poet Suldatta and the dragon Chanata, in a magical atmosphere among poetry challenges, esoteric Buddhism and traditional Japan. The author, Miyazawa Kenji, dedicated is tales to children...