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Attributed to Jean d’Espagnet

The Secret Work of the Hermetic Philosophy

A Fresh English Translation from the Complete 1623 Latin Arcanum

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Subject Index

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Subject Index

The index links to the stable passages and study entries in all digital formats. Numbers identify canons, not pages of the modern edition.

Adam and Adamic Earth

74, Creation and Chaos.

Air

78, 129.

Analysis

3, glossary.

Art

13, Art.

Ashmole and Hasolle

1650 witness, English reception.

Athanor

116, glossary.

Birds and Doves

15, 42.

Blackness

64, 119.

Body

72, Soul, Spirit, and Body.

Chaos

39, Creation and Chaos.

Charity

1, Charity.

Circles and Wheels

83, 84.

Congealing

72, 129.

Conjunction

27, Conjunction.

Creation

73, Creation and Chaos.

Crow

64, 119.

Digestion

70, Digestion.

Dissolution

72, 77.

Dragon

119, 138.

Eagle and Lion

108, 119.

Earth

70, 76.

Eclipses

106.

Elements

75, Rotation of the Elements.

Elixir

124, Elixir.

Enigma

9, Enigma and Obscurity.

Errata

printed corrections, editorial policy.

Ferment

126, 127.

Fire

93, Fire.

Fixed and Volatile

72, Fixed and Volatile.

Fleece, Golden

original preface, 138.

Furnace

116, 118.

Gold

18, 24.

Golden Bough

15, Golden Bough.

Guide and Teacher

6, 7.

Infant

78, 88.

Interpretation, Historical

Times of the Stone, later readers.

Jupiter

78, 137.

Lull

10, 107.

Marriage

27, Conjunction.

Measure

88, Measure and Proportion.

Mercury

44, Mercury.

Moon

27, 106.

Multiplication

123, Multiplication.

Nature

13, Art within Nature.

Nourishment

87, 90.

Prayer

5, historical note 5.

Putrefaction

90, Putrefaction and Burial.

Quintessence

70, Quintessence.

Rebis

39, Rebis.

Red Work

120, 127.

Regimen

81, 101.

Saturn

33, Saturn.

Secrecy

9, 107.

Seed

18, Seed.

Signifer and Zodiac

137, historical diagram.

Soul

70, Soul, Spirit, and Body.

Spirit

70, 82.

Stone

13, 73.

Sulphur

122, Sulphur.

Sun

27, Sun and Moon.

Time

137, Time and the Philosophical Year.

Tincture

33, 125.

Vessel

109, Vessel and Womb.

Water

76, 97.

Westcott

1893 preface, historical witness.

Wet and Dry

84, 89.

White Work

106, 119.

Words with Several Meanings

15, Enigma and Obscurity.

About This Reading Edition

The complete anonymous 1623 Arcanum, conventionally attributed to Jean d’Espagnet, with Latin and a fresh English translation, 138 canons, original marginalia and errata, 88 modern annotations, separately identified historical reception documents, and the complete supplied Diotimos study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Anonymous, Arcanum hermeticæ philosophiæ opus. Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1623. Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon copy, digitised by Google Books, uJNr_M9LDGgC. Conventionally attributed to Jean d’Espagnet; the original title page is anonymous.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

Historical texts are public-domain works. The supplied 2026 fresh English translation, Latin reading transcription and Diotimos editorial material are published with the site owner’s authorization. The historical Signifer is credited to the Getty Research Institute copy and Internet Archive.