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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A PHILOSOPHICAL SV AK V.

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Obscure und allegorical style. The less they reatly know, themore Pompotis and the more uia intelligibie do their speculations beCOme. But the reader, who is pii ZZled by their perpleXing Style, may at least corniri himself with the assurance that he

Alchemisis Nili have nothing to do. They sol low the methodpursued by Nature in the Velias of the earth, whicli is verysimple, and includes no solutions, putrefacti OnS, CoagulationS, Oranything of the kind Caia Nature, in the heart of the earth, where the metals do grow and receive in Crense, haVe anything

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strict obedience to the teaching os Nature in Ahori, the methodwhicli Nature herself pursues in the boweis of the earth. Foryou See that Nature uses only one substance in her work of devel Oping and persecting the meta is, and that this substance includes everything that is required. NON. this subStan CC APPearSto Cali sor no special treat ment, eXcept that of digestion by gentiellent, Whicli must be continuod untii it has reached iis hi ghest possibi e degree of devel opinent. For this simple heati nil process the cunning sophisis have substituted solutions, Coagulation S, Calcinations, putrefactions, sublimations, and Other fantaStical Operations whicli are only different nam es for the samething ; and thereby they have multiplied a thousand- sold thedissiculties of this undertat in g, and gi ven rise to the popularnolion that it is a mOSt arduous, haZar Ous, and ruinOUS ly CXPCn- Sive enterpriSe. This they have simply done out os jealoiasy and malice, to put others of the right tracti, and to involve them in

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varieties of heat this firsi substance is transmuted in VariOUSwayS, and assumes different specifi C sorms. Since, then, NatureiS SO Simple, I ad Vise yOu Once more to have done with ait thoses Olisti sublimations, Coagulations, and putrefaCtionS, and theridiculous old wives' labies whicli are even noru belleVed by many,