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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virgin persorins her ossice in the chambers. The more beauti sulfhe is, the more beauti sui do I appear in her. Know also that Ι have Power to give their essen Ce to ali essen ces, that it is I who prese e them, and mould them into Shape. MorOOVer, Obse et he three paris into whicli God has divi ted the firsi substance. of the firsi and purest part He created the Cherubin, Seraphin, Archangeis, and ali the Other anget S. Out of the seconii, whichwas not SO PUre, He Created the heavens and ali that belongs tothem : of the third, impure pari, the elements and their properties. Firsi and best of these is Fire. Fire admits of no Corruption, and Contains the purest part of the quinteSSeiace. Aster Fihe, He m de the subile Air, and put into it a part butnot So large a part) of the quintessence. Then Came thevisibie element of Water, whicli has as much of the quintesselaceas it neecis. Last os ali comes the Earra. Ali these like allthe rest of ΝAture) He created in a moment of time. The earthis gross and clari , and though it is fruitsul, 3 et it contains thes mallest part of the quinteSsence. At first the elements re- mained as they were in their separate spheres. So Air is reatly moist, but is properly tempered by Fire. Water is reatly warm, but obtains iis moisture froin the air. The Earili is reatly dry, but it is also coici ; iis great citaness renderes it at in to fire. Fire however, is the first os elements whicli causes life and gro vili by

the elements and their forins, and he who thin ks other visedeceives himself. For 3 ou wili never be able to assign to enchsubstance iis proper influenCe, or to find the correct proportionSof the elements whicli are required by that substance. I alone, I Say, Can forin created things, and give to them their peculiar

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substance froin the earth. The generation Of the preci OUS StoneS, Auch as Carbuncles, amethySis, and di amonds, tal es place in the Same manner. The Substance itself is composed of the Mur

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flumbers in the element and is only brought out and purified in the course of time. All this is accompli Ahed by my han is alone.

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be consumed by the fire. But the substance with whicli II

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by Uillanova, Raymonii, Morientis the Roman, Hermes whomthey cali Father, and who has not his like among the Sages ,

the media os transmutation, the Cause Os generation, nutrition, and decay, and the essen e and SubStance of the elements-you

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the elementes below. At the bidding of thy orci thou dost

thou clost obtain the form. That substance is formi ess and voiduntii it is modi fied an i individuali ged by thee. First thou givestit a substantiat, and then an individual form. In thy reat vis lom thou clost cunningly mould ali thy works through the heavenly influences, so that no mortal hand Can ulterly destroythem. Under thy hantis God has put ali things that are necessa