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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give Out a grievous Smeli. In the meanti me the rays of the sun Shining upon the moi Sture of the Chamber, produced a most

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contain their Souis and spiriis. Theres ore I continued diligentlyto persorna my Ossice of Warming them being assured that theywould not return to their bocli es while they could enjoy that moist atmosphere. This Conjecture was justi fied by the event. For towarcis evening I noti Ced that many Vapours rose from theearth through the heat of the sun, and were listed up as water is attracted by the sun : afterwarcis when night seli, they watered the earth as fertili sing dew, and washed our bocli es, which becamemore beauti fui and white the ostener this sprint ling took place And the whiter they became, the more the quantity of moisture in the air diminished, untii at last the atmosphere was too thinfor the spirit and solii to remain therein any longer SO theywere at tengili compellecl to return to the clarified body of the

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inighty King appeared in great splendour and indescribable

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THE GOLDEN AGER ESTOR ED

HENRV MADATHANAS.

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gliae of the whi te Eagle were to be extracted, and how theSCwere to be mi Xed in their natural proportions, en ClOSed, SCaled, and committed to the secret fi re. Nor did I even then find the arcanum without Constant and tanti ring application. I haVe, in deed, Studi ed the writings, parabies, and various figureS of the philosophers with singular industry, and laboured hard to Sol Vetheir mani sold wonderi ut enigmas, most of whicli are Simply the Vatia Producis of their imaginations. It was long be ree XPerien Ce taught me that ali thoir obscure verbi age and highPretenSionS are mere sol ly and empty phantasmS as is amplytesti sed by our leading Sages). Then I understood that their preparations of which we read in Geber, Albertus Magnu S, and Others) their purgations, sublimations, cementation S, cli Stillation S,

ThiS mu St be apparent to any one who considers the truth of the multer. Naturo, who, in her nobi e simplici ty, deligitis in hero via

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Proper SubStance, knows nothing of these sutilities. Heiace Theophrastus Sec. Mag. de Phil. Lap.) rightly says os thosewhoseela the substance of the Stone in xvine, impersect bodies, blood, bis mulli, merCUry, Sulphur, Wine, dung, Orpiment, and in PlantS, AS chelidonia, hyssop, ivb , &C., that they are fuit os lies and thiever deceiving the Credulous, milhing their purSeS dry, and , as to the rest, sollOwing their own Molisti sancies, that are qui te unable to reali se the requirements of Nature. Teli me noxv who vili help me with the minerais of the earth, distillations of water,&c. Θ) Some of them talae new wine and urine sor the purpose of changing them into metat s. To hear them tali , yota might SVP- pose ali that is sold at the apothecaries to be good sor metals Thou Molisti man, dost thou not perceive that non e of thesethings have anything to do with them Θ

os the universe. Is a wOmari bring sortii a male Child, b Ou Cannot change him into a litile giri. Frona this rute, whicli evidently obtain S throughout Nature, any Sane PerSOn may gather Where, and how, we must look for, and find, Our Blessed Matier. But let no One imagine, or suffer any quack to delude him into the belles, that he has ali that he requires When the SubStan Celias been made known to him et ther by God, or by one of the initiated. Let hini not suppose that thesolution and purificationare a very Simple matter. He Could fati into no more serious mi Stake. He has scarcely got beyOnd the most elementa ita Stage of his taSk. Let me once more teli him that I spent five entireyCarS, after discovering the true Malter of the Stone, in the Search aster the right method of manipulating it, uiatit at length, in the si Xth year, the key of power was entrusted to me by the SeCret revelation of the most High God. That fame key the ancient Patriarchs, Propheis, and Sages have alwayS kePt Secret.' For i V says Monarcha, in a certain passage they had described it in an universalty intelligibi e manner, and placed it illi in the reach of every labolarer and porter, it would have been a great thest, and no true myste moreOVer, many evit S Wouldari Se DOm Such a profanation of the arcanum, xv hich wOuid also