The Hermetic museum, restored and enlarged : most faithfully instructing all disciples of the sopho-spagyric art how that greatest and truest medicine of the philosopher's stone may be found and held. Now first done into English from the Latin origin

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THE SOPHIC HYDROLITH.

FOr AS in an excellent poem a Verse is somelimes repented atleaSt Once, so on this pOint we are accustomed to do the Same, beCau Se the rea ter ought not to direct his alms and thoughis to

the earthly Philosophical Sione uniit he has attained a right knowledge of the Celestiat Stone, and has prepared it, Or, at lenSt, has CommenCed with the ulmost Zeal the preparations os both together. For the earthly Stone is a gist from God, descen lingby the clemen cy of the Celestiat Stone. I agree with ait the Sages that it would be sol ly to attempt the stu ly of so pro unda myStery without a good previoris knowledge of Nature anilher Properties. But I also say that it is not merely dissiculi, butqui te impossibie, to prepare the Philosopher's Sion e without atrue knowledge of Christ, the heavenly Corner Stone, in Iulio m

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II 6 Let me, however, he permitted to impress one thing on

orders his lise, foui, heari, and actions aright in the si glit os God in so far will he perceive that he is mali ing good progress in thedi SCOVery, preparation, and use of the Stone. This assertion is the result of my own personat eXperience during many yearS, and ii embodies my deliberate conviction. There re, the bestpreparation for this Stud y is, in my judgment, a diligent amen d ment of heari and lis . I am aware that I here lay myself open to the objectionthat it is possibi e to enumerate severat men whO actuallypossessed this Stone, or Tincture, and with it transmuted basemetals into gold and silver and who 3 et were not good men, but Vain, profligate, and without knowledge of God. To this objection, I answer that hom whencesOeVer these men may haUC obtained the Tincture, I certainly never Wili belleve that theyPrepared it-ie., the triae and right Tincture thenaseives. The tragic end of many of these men, and the head long destructionbrought upon them by their Tincture, prove but too Clearly the truth of what I say. Moreover, ali that cali them Selves

at Chemi Sis are not therefore necessari ly true posseSSOrS Of the Stone. For, as in other branches of knowledge, there arefound many different schools and secis, so ali that are in Sctarchof this preci ous Tincture a re calleri alchemists, without necessari ly deSerVing the namC. In this traci I have spolien of true, naturat, and Scientificalchem y, whicli teaches has to distinguisti the evil and impuresto in the good and pure, and thus, to aid the weal neSS, and Correct the Corruption, of Nature. We hel p the metals to arriveat maturi ty, ju Si as a gardener may assi Si fruit, Which by SomeaCC ident is prevera ted from ripening, Or as a Seed Or gratia os Corn

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APPENDIX.

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Stone, Jesus Christ, Who with Thee and the Holy Spirit liveth

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THE SOPHIC HYDROLITH.

EPIGRAM.

ANO THER EPIGRAM.

ture bes ore his. First look at the helmei and the twO Nings, whicli signis y the love of the Art. They bear us Onward to

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UNTO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORV. AMEN.

NOTE. The Latin original contains no engraving illustrative os this Epigram.

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NATU RE,

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isOm me than any Other Creature. Metales have no lis , or