The Golden Fleece and Alchemy Book

	Table of Illustrations
	Foreword by	1
	Introduction	7
Ch. 1	From the Byzantines to the Rosicrucians	9
	Complementarity of History and Myth: From the "Holy Spirit Fire" to Philip the Good	9
	Artists, Scholars, and Early Hermeneutists: From the Renaissance to Guilielmus Mennens	17
	The Golden Fleece as a Sign of the Laboratory: Michael Maier, J.V. Andreae, and Seventeenth Century Alchemy	24
Ch. 2	From the Age of Enlightenment to Contemporary Hermeneutics	33
	The Rococo Compass and Concordance: Ehrd of Naxagoras	33
	Theosophical Fleece and Astral Gold: Hermann Fictuld; the "Sun from the Orient"	40
	French Exegeses: Dom Pernety, or the bunch with a single key; Fulcanelli at the Hotel Lallemant: Canseliet and Cabbalistic Phonetics	47
	Perspectives	59
	Appendices	67
1)	Original texts of the extensive quotations with their proposed translations	69
2)	A note on the Golden Fleece in Freemasonry	88
	Notes	99
	Bibliography	119
	Illustrations	123
	Index	137