SUMMARY INDEX OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK
Foreword to the 2006 edition by Lon Milo DuQuette
Foreword of the Publisher, Homburg, the 7th of January 1735
Foreword of the Author, The 4th of January 1721
VOLUME 1. ON SALT
CHAPTER 1 On the Origin of Common Salt
CHAPTER 2 On the Nature of Salt
CHAPTER 3 On the Purpose and Use of Salt
CHAPTER 4 On the First World (De Mundo Archetypo)
CHAPTER 5 On the Fall of Lucifer and the Resulting Division or Creation of the World
CHAPTER 6 On the Sabbath, the Completion and End of Time, On Eternal Peace and the Gentle, Quiet Joy of the Eternal Reign of God
VOLUME 2. ON SULFUR
CHAPTER 1 On the Origin and Production of Both Heavenly and Earthly Sulfur
CHAPTER 2 On the Purpose and Use of Heavenly Sulfur
CHAPTER 3 On the Nature, Purpose and Use of Earthly Sulfur
CHAPTER 4 On the State of Man After Death and the Transformation of His Corruptible Body into an Incorruptible Body, as it was Created in the Garden of Eden; as well as On the Composition of the Incorruptible Bodies of the Damned from the Principle of Darkness
CHAPTER 5 On the Imprisonment of the Old Serpent, the Devil, or Satan, as well as the First Resurrection and the Kingdom of the Saints
CHAPTER 6 On the Release of the Devil from His Prison and His Last Rejection; On the Last Great Judgment, the Second Death, and the Location of Hell
CHAPTER 7 On the Torture of the Damned
CHAPTER 8 The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John on the Island of Patmos, in which All That the Church of Christ Has Experienced from the Beginning and Will Experience to the End is Revealed
VOLUME 3. ON MERCURY
CHAPTER 1 On the Origin and Production of Both Heavenly and Earthly Mercury
CHAPTER 2 On the Purpose and Use of Heavenly Mercury
CHAPTER 3 On the Nature, Purpose and Use of Earthly Mercury, or Quicksilver
CHAPTER 4 On True and Natural Astrology, or the Art of Interpreting the Stars
CHAPTER 5 On Religion, According to the Clear and Precise Meaning of Sacred Scripture, and on the True Mago-Cabbala, Based on the Same
CHAPTER 6 On the Transformation of the Darkness into its Original Light
CHAPTER 7 On the New Heaven and the New Earth, as well as the New Jerusalem, the Eternal City of God, and the Return of all Creatures after the Periods of Eternity to the Eternally Gentle and Quiet Divine Peace and Glory of the Blessed, When All Accursed Things Shall Disappear (Revelation 22:3)
CHAPTER 8 On the Invisible Creatures in the Elements
CHAPTER 9 On the Greatness of God and His Unfathomable Nature, and on the Impossibility of Representing Him Visually
CHAPTER 10 Explanation of the Words of Proverbs 8:27
CHAPTER 11 Explanation of the Reference to the Waters Above and Below the Firmament in Genesis 1:6-9
CHAPTER 12 On Philosopher's Mercury
CLAVIS OPERIS That is, the Key to the Entire Work Consisting of Ten Illustrations Whose Explanation is Attached
ETERNAL WISDOM
CHAPTER 1 On Eternal Wisdom: What and Who it Actually Is
CHAPTER 2 On the Seekers of Wisdom: Who They Are and How They Achieve the Highest Bliss
CHAPTER 3 By Which Means and In What Ways Can Wisdom Be Attained?
ADDENDUM A Song of Praise in Honor of Divine Wisdom
APPENDIX A Dr. Hensing's Discourse on the Philosopher's Stone
APPENDIX B Anonymous Alchemical Questions of a Universal and Particular Nature, Translated from the Latin (1726)
APPENDIX C On Making One Out of Three, or a Clear Process for Preparing the Philosopher's Stone—Both White and Red—From the Three Principles By the Shorter Wet Process, as well as an Excerpt from the Latin Manuscript “The Heavenly Manna”
APPENDIX D Non plus ultra veritatis, or an Investigation of Hermetic Science Without Prejudice, By Franciscus Sebastian us Fulvus Melvolodemet of Pisa, Translated from the Latin
APPENDIX E George Ripley's “Song of the Newborn Chymical King”