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| Introduction | |
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| Ancient | |
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| Hermes Trismegistus: The Emerald Table (Tabula smaragdina) | |
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| Plato: from the Timaeus | |
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| Aristotle: from the Meteorology | |
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| Pseudo-Democritus: from the Treatise of Democritus on Things Natural and Mystical | |
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| Anonymous: Dialogue of Cleopatra and the Philosophers | |
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| Anonymous: from Leiden Papyrus X and the Stockholm Papyrus | |
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| Zosimos of Panopolis: Of Virtue, Lesson 1-3 | |
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| Stephanos of Alexandria: from The Great and Sacred Art of the Making of Gold | |
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| Anonymous: The Poem of the Philosopher Theophrastos upon the Sacred Art | |
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| Islamic and Medieval | |
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| Khalid ibn Yazid: from Secreta Alchymiae | |
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| Pseudo-Geber: from Of the Investigation or Search of Perfection | |
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| Of the Sum of Perfection; and His Book of Furnaces | |
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| Avicenna: De Congelatione et Conglutinatione Lapidum | |
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| Albertus Magnus: from the Libellus de Alchimia | |
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| Roger Bacon: from the Radix Mundi | |
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| Nicolas Flamel: from His Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures | |
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| Bernard, Earl of Trevisan: A Treatise of the Philosophers Stone | |
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| George Ripley: The Epistle of George Ripley written to King Edward the 4 | |
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| Renaissance and Seventeenth Century | |
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| Paracelsus: from Of the Nature of Things | |
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| Paracelsus His Aurora | |
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| Francis Anthony: Aurum-Potabile: or the Receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie | |
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| Michael Sendivogius: from A New Light of Alchymie | |
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| A Dialogue between Mercury, the Alchymist and Nature | |
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| Robert Fludd: from Mosaicall Philosophy | |
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| Gabriel Plattes: A Caveat for Alchymists | |
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| John French: preface to The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trimegistus in XVII Books | |
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| George Starkey/Eirenaeus Philalethes: The Admirable Efficacy, and almost incredible Virtue of true Oyl | |
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| from An Exposition Upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IV | |
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| Elias Ashmole: Prolegomena to the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum | |
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| Robert Boyle: from An Historical Account of a Degradation of Gold Made by an Anti-Elixir: A Strange Chymical Narrative | |
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| Isaac Newton: The Key (Keynes MS 18) | |
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| The Commentary on the Emerald Tablet (Keynes MS 28), King's College, Cambridge | |