{"product_id":"the-philosophers-stone-g-carrion-9798180864727","title":"The Philosopher's Stone: The Magnum Opus at Depth","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou have read the history and learned to read the symbols. You have walked the inner work. This is the deep end - the room the first two books were walking toward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third book of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Work\u003c\/i\u003e opens the deepest chambers of alchemy: the laboratory tradition at full depth, the complete magnum opus stage by stage, and alchemy's place inside the wider Hermetic world - the Tree of Life, the sacred \"god-work\" of theurgy. At its heart are the three great emblem books, read in depth, panel by panel: the illuminated \u003cb\u003eSplendor Solis\u003c\/b\u003e, Michael Maier's singing \u003cb\u003eAtalanta Fugiens\u003c\/b\u003e, and the wordless \u003cb\u003eMutus Liber\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat you will find inside\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe operative tradition at depth - the athanor and the alembic, the classic operations, Ripley's twelve gates - as history and symbol\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to read an alchemical emblem, then the three masterpieces walked panel by panel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe full colour sequence - nigredo, albedo, citrinitas, rubedo - and the longer schemes, deepened, not merely repeated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpagyrics, the plant work, as a beautiful idea and its symbolism - never a recipe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Stone itself, in full - transmutation, the elixir, the great projection legends - and how alchemy joins the Qabalah and theurgy into one corresponding cosmos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA boundary kept on every page: \u003c\/b\u003e this is a work of history and symbol, not instruction. The furnaces, the plant work, the elixir, the rites - all are read as the alchemists wrote them, never reproduced as method. There is no recipe here, and nothing to attempt; the closing chapter gathers the whole ethic of the path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether the Stone was ever truly made, the old manuscripts keep their counsel - and that kept silence is not a hole in the story. It is the part that has kept the story alive. The deepest room in the house of alchemy, opened fully, with its wonder left whole. \u003ci\u003eThe capstone of\u003c\/i\u003e The Great Work. \u003ci\u003eFrom the author of the\u003c\/i\u003e Hermetica \u003ci\u003eseries.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e G. Carrion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180864727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"G. Carrion","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173590900991,"sku":"9798180864727","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94e5262b-d1bc-4cd3-a9c6-6a2203ddae69.jpg?v=1788955401","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-philosophers-stone-g-carrion-9798180864727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}