Hermetic RecreationsTranslated into English for the very first time, the Hermetic Recreations is a uniquely lucid masterwork of French Hermetic philosophy. Set down in an anonymous hand at the turn of the Nineteenth Century, it provides critical insights into the operative arts of the Western alchemical tradition. Illuminating both the traditional medieval practices which it inherited, and those of the Parisian alchemical revival which it would influence, this rare text