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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ate; like that of the Sun. This may be effected by placing our

For Nature, On account of iis nature, rejoices in iiself, Nature ConquorS nature, and in iiseis Contains nature. At the fame timeone is not opposed to the other, but One Comprehenis the Other,

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qui cliens bocly and Sotii. The more persectly Our Ore is purged, and subjected to coction, the better it l, comes, tili it is attengili conden sed into a Stone. But it must be dissolved again, and subjected to a po versul fire, tantii it looks like buriat blood I f this Sione be added to any substance, it tinges it into gold. The Sages speak of it as a kind of rOOt. Take, they say, thewhole virtve of the Tincture, and concentrale it in the Root. Is a body whicli has no earthy elements receive this Tincture, it receives more benefit than less excellent bodies. The Stone OVOrComes everything to whi Ch it is applied, and tinges foret gnbodies V ith iis o vn colour. The dry fire tinges bodies, the air strengiliens them, the white water Washes away their blachness, and their earth receives the Tincture. Concerning the coctionneeded for the developinent of our substance, the Sages have eXpreSsed themSelves in a great Variety of ways. Observe Hermes, who says that it must be repeated again and again, untii the reci colour at tengili is oblati ecl. Herein is the stabili tyof the whole work. Aster arcis it ASSUIDOS many, mRny COlOUrS, not including the reci, whicli appears at the end. For the whitemust precede it. Set to work by the regimen of fire, and triturate. The above mentioned water volatiliges ali hodies ;OVOn SUCh RS Rre gross it penetrates untii it has assimilated themto itS own naturo. Know that unleSS 3 ou Operate hipon bodies

is soli iaci in the gold whicli is hi iden in Magnesia, and that it isone thing Composed of sulphur from sulphur and mercury si ommerCUry. Anci as the Substance of our Stone is one, So is themethod of iis preparation. Theres ore, do not listen to those

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ignorant and fraudulent alchemisis who speak of many differenti incis of sublimation and distillation. Turia a deas ear to thoseu ho say that the substance Os our Stone is the powder of the Basilisti. As to the longili of) time required fir the prepara

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PHILOSOPHICA L STONE:

NICHOLAS BARNAUD DELPHINAS,

Doctor of Medicine, a Malom Student of Vias Art.

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