Alchemy Rising: The White Book by Heliophilus (Aula Lucis, 2025) Classic Hardback Edition

Heliophilus. Alchemy Rising: The White Book.Aula Lucis, 2025. Classic hardback edition. 256 pages. Limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies. 

Condition: New

Description from the publisher:

246 × 189 mm, 256 pp. 

The second and latest instalment to the Alchemy Rising series by the contemporary English alchemist Heliophilus is dedicated to the Art of Water and the mystery of the alchemical menstruums. Within its lavishly illustrated pages, Heliophilus takes us on an alchemical quest that follows the Sacred Fountain of the alchemists, through the great monarchical tributaries of Nature nurtured and nourished by the very streams and rivers that flow through the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms. From these kingdoms the alchemists drew their liquors, menstruums, spirits and lixiviums, and by doing so were able to calcine, precipitate, dissolve and sublime their subjects; reduce them to their first matter; and separate their philosophical principles.

classic edition

• Limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies.
• Trim size 246 × 189 mm.
• 256 pages.
• Handbound in full white bonded leather.
• Stamped with blue foil on front cover and spine, with alchemical symbols of water and fire debossed on both sides.
• Lavishly illustrated throughout with nearly 120 full colour photographs and five illustrations.
• Text set in Neacademia.
• Printed in full colour on Munken Print Cream 150 gsm paper.
• Featuring textured colour endpapers, head & tail band and silk ribbon.
• Presented with a letterpress bookmark. Early pre-orders will also include and a letterpress broadside featuring a reproduction of “The Hand of the Philosophers,” found originally in Johann Isaac Hollandus’ 16th-century work of the same title.