What are the best books to read about alchemy for beginners?
Without doubt the all time best read for the novice is Frater Albertus’ “The Alchemists Handbook”. Frater Albertus is one of the big names in modern alchemy, and this book of his starts right at the beginning and takes the novice through each successive step in the ‘prima’ (first stage of learning) or herbal work, in easy to understand language. Albertus also includes some notes on advanced work and on the general philosophy of alchemy. Next in line after Albertus’ handbook is Manifred Junius’ “Plant Alchemy”. Manifred is another well known and respected modern alchemist and his book on plant alchemy (the prima) is very detailed and has a slight Eastern twist to it. After these two books we might mention “John Reid IIIs course on practical alchemy” found at Adam McLeans website (http://www.levity.com/alchemy/johnreid.html) This is a complete instruction book on the herbal work with almost everything required in the way of knowledge by the novice. Below we provide a liast of good beginn
