The Crowning of Nature Paperback – February 23, 2025

The Crowning of Nature is one of the most important alchemical manuscripts, and contains a famous series of 67 illustrations of the alchemical work taking place in flasks.I originally published this book in 1980 as the third in my Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series. For the first couple of years I individually hand-coloured the 67 illustrations that make up the series, as there was no possibility of economic printing in colour at that time. Eventually I ceased colouring the images and issued the rest of the edition with uncoloured illustrations. This edition has been out of print for over twenty years. The few copies of the coloured version that find their way onto the secondhand market usually are priced at many hundreds of pounds.In 2005 I decided to produce a new edition of this book and for this I made new coloured versions of the emblems, in a more subtle style, taking into account some versions of the manuscript I had found since 1980. The text of the book is substantially the same as the 1980 edition, with a few small amendments and corrections. My introduction and commentary has been edited a little to reflect my present style of writing on alchemical matters. Read more