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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TABLE OF PARADISE;

THE SCIENCE OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE.

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TABLE OE PARADISE:

A mOSt preciOus book, containing ari, the like of whicli is not tobe iunci upon earth; shewing the trulli Concerning the true Philosophy, and the most nOble medicine, and Pri CeleSSTincture, together With divers other Valuable Aris, and the instrumentS required for them.

O , in the nam e of God, the Almighty Creator and

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worthily, and to bear in mind that He has bestowed it upon youout os pure mercy, and that any pride Or presumptu ou S in Solen Ceon your part wili in OSt certain ly entali iis loss, in addition to His vrath, and eternat Condemnation. Vou must resolve to beginthis bl essed and divine work in the nam e of God, for the service

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conjoined into one subile essenCe. His divine Omnipoten Ce

li se sor endless joy and the glory of eternat and incorruptibi e

beatitudo.

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Let me then teli 3 oti, who xvould be a true lover of this Art, that it was first deli vered by God to Adam in Paraclise. For itis a true revelation os many secreis and mysteries. It shews

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hortation and Informationto ali the lovers os this Art, in whicli they can See, AS in a mirror, ali the fundamental and essentiat requirements thereos; whetherit is possibi e or not to arrive at the true Art, and Concerning the

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a knowledge of the method of preparing it. The Stone in iis final and ei sective sorm is not to be found anywhere in the wholewOrid, ei ther in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath ; nor in any metat, nor in anything that grows, nor yet even in gOld or Silver. it must be prepared, i. e., developed, irato iis final forin ;yet for ali that, it cannot, strictly speat in g, bo made beller than God created it, nor can the Tincture be prepared out os it: the Tincture' must be added to it, and theresore has nothing to do

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Know that our Stone is one, and that it is justly called a Stone. For it is a Stone, and Could bear no nam e SO Character- istic, as that of the Sione of the Sages. Vet it is not any one of Our existing Stones, but Only derives iis appellation Dom iis similari tyto them. Eor Our Stone is SO prepared as to be composed of the four elements. On this account it has been called by different nam es, and AASumes different forms, although it is one thing, an diis like is not found upon e arth. It is a Stone, and not a Stone in the Sense of having the nature of any one stone; it is fire. yetit has not the appearance, Or properties. Os fi re it is air, 3 et Deither has it the appearance, Or properties, of air; it is Water, buthaS no resemblan Ce, Or amnity, to the nature os water. It is earth, though it has not the nature, or appearance, Os Carth, SCCing

An ancient philosopher says: Our Stone is called thesac red roCk, and is divi ded, or Signified, in four ways. FirStly, into earth ; seCondly, into iis accretion; third ly, into fire; and fourthly, in to the flame of fire. Is any one knows the method os dissolving it, Of extracting iis Sali, and os perfeci ly coagulatingit, he is initiated in the mysteries of the Sages. 4 here re is the Sali turn white, and assume an Oily Appearance, then it tingeS. There are three stages in our Art. Firstly, the transmutation Ofthe whole thing into one sali : Secondiy, the rendering of three subile bodies in tangible ; third ly, the repetition of the wholesolution of the whole thing. Is you understand thi S, Set Yourhand to the work. For the Malter is only one thing, and would

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That spring is in Judaea, and is called, the Spring of the

medicine it eXceis ali other gold ; ali di senses may be cured bydrini ing one drop of the tincture in a glass os ruine ; and it has