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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adjustinent of ali the elementary properties, and by the accidentaloperation os Colcl. This is the substance whicli is used sor the Purl Oses of our Art, after it has been persected and purified by

supplied only by the addition of go id and Silver. Our Art, then,

has to finit a substitute sor those natural forces in the preci ous metals. By them alone it is able to fi X the volatile properties of Our qui ct silver, sor in them alone clo we find the po vers and influences whicli are in dispensabie to Our Chemical PrOCess.

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besore the greater degree of heat is applied whicli, through go id,

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waS, nor i S it eVer again Converted into a permanent spiritual

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PILOGUE.

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Thou biddest walli in Thy pallis l

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A UERU BRIEF TRACT

PH I LOSOPH ICA L STONE.

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Sages say Is the ore be osten deadened in iis coction, it beComes ali the more excellent, and is the body have a fovi after the manner of man. V The bOdy does not penetrate the foui, butthe foui penetrates the hody, beCause it is volatile. The Solii, whicli is hidden in the Mur paris of the body, is called Sulphur. These bodies are male and se male, and by their mutuat Operation

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combines With them into one substance. The bocly attracis the Spirit, and the spirit tinges the body with a spiritual substance like bloo l. For the Sages say that whatever has a spirit hasbi Ood. I f the Venoni penetrate the hody, it imparis to it an in destructibi e colour, and then the foui cannot be Sesearate i Domthe body any more. Is in flying it faces round and meois iis Pursuer, then is the flight at an end. The two belong together, aud Nature always tendes to assimilate kin tred substances. The final colour is indestructi ble, because the foui perUad OSevery part of the body, and is inseparably bound up with it.

That whicli is called the spirit, is the active, Or male Principie, and Can Only be obta ined by the dissolution of the body. ACCordingly, we must undet stand this of the humidi ty which

the body into spirit. IV here it is Mund alone it overcomes all

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bined with hodies, then the body changes into Spirit, by a heaven ly