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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THE ONLV TRUE AND IMMORTALGO D

E VERMORE. AMEN.

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i.) That of BASILIUS VALENTINUS; a Monk of the

MICHAEL MAIER,

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE.

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M. D.

MICHAEL MAVER,

BASILIUS UALENTINUS; and those of the twO great Englisti Sages NORTON and CREMER. This Triad os Tracts

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I have ventured to cali the GOLDEN TRIPOD, and the name

returned to the enquiring Ionians by the pri estess os Delphi : Theseud belween the Meropes and the Ionians will not cease untii the Golden Tripod, whicli Vulcan cast into the sea, be brought into the house of the man who knows the things that

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UITH ΤWELVE REYS, AND AN APPENDIX THERETO, CONCERNING

THE GREAT STONE OF THE

ANCIENT SAGES.

BASILIUS VALENT INUS,

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AN EPIGRAM THE

PRACTICA OF BASILIUS.

MICHAEL MAIER.

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THE PREFACE

BAS ILIUS VALENTINUS; THE BENEDICTI NE

THE GREAT STONE OE THEANCIENT SAGES.

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In the convent there was a brother, who was afflicted witha severe disease of the kidneys, and to whom none of the many

physicians he had consul ted had been able to give even momenta relies So he had committed himself to the hand of God, and despatred of nil humari at d. As I loved him, I gathered ali manner of herbs, eXtra ted their salis, and distilled Various medicines. But none of themsee med to do him the stightest good, and after si X years I Mund that I had trieci every possibie vegetable subStance, without any beneficiat esseCt. It last I determineci to devote myself to the study of thepo vers and Viriues whicli God has laici into metals and minerais :and the more I searched the more I Mund. One discovery ledio another, and , after God had permitted unio me many eXperiments, I underStOOd Clearly the nature and properties, and the Secret poten Cy, imparted by God to minerais and metals. Among the minerat substances I found one whicli exhibited many colours, and proVed to be of the greatest emcaCy in art. The spiritual essen ce of this substance I extracted, and there vitii restored Our Sich brother, in a few Jays, to perfeci health. Forthe strength of this spirit was so great as to quiCken the prostrate spirit of my diseased brother, who, Dona that Jay to the Jay of his death, remembered me in his hourly prayers. And hi S prayers,tOgether With my Own diligeiace, so prevalled with God, that