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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reve led to Adam by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit : and

sed the knowledge of this great mystery he would not have been able to prolong his life to the age of 3OO let alone 9Oo)

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the bo ly, or earth, while the body attracis the Spirit, Or water ;and that they are thus joine i into one substance, the earth beingsos tened by the water, and the water hardened by the earth asthe boys in the street potir water On dry clusi, and knead the whole into one mass. For this reason the Sages Cali Our processchild 's play, in Whicli the cleath of one is the li se of the other, i. e. , in whicli the hard ness of the one is sos tened by the other, and vice versa, seeing that the two are nothing but body and spirit originalty belonging together. When Contemplating this union, the Sage, Hermes, bursis sortii in to the folio ving exclamation Oh, how Strong, Victorious, and preci ous is this nature that so iansponi ably com foris iis supplementary nature t VThis nature is water, whi Ch stirs up and qui cliens the nature of

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the thicher cloes the water beCO me. Hence the repetition os the process is a most important Potnt. Hermes Anys that when

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