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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to God, and glorified His Holy Name.

EPILOGUE.

And now, my beloved Sons of Wisdom and the Doctrine, herein is the great Mystery of the Sages, in ali the po ver an dglory thereos, and the Revelation of the Spirit, concerning

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THE SOPHIC HYDROLITH :

WATER STONE OF THE WI SE

PRINI ED AT THE PUBLIC COST FOR THE ADUANTAGE OF THE PUBLIC.

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A BRIEF EXPOSITION

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THE SOPHIC HYDROLITH.

manner of this Wiched worid, look upon it as a mere figment, Ι vili enumerate Some of the true Sages besides those named in Holy Scripture) who reatly knew this Art, in the natural orderof their succession. They are Hermes Trismegi Stus, Pythagoras, AleXander the Great, Plato, TheophraStUS, AViConna, Galen, Hippocrates, Lucian, Longanus, RaSiS, ArchelauS, Rupescissa, the Author of the Great Rosata, Mary the Prophetess, Dionysius, Zachaire, Haly, Morienus, Calid, Con- StantiuS, Serapion, Albertus Magnus, Estrod, Arnold de Villa Nova, Geber, Raymond Lully, Roger Bacon, Alan, Thomas AquinaS, Marcellus PalingeniuS ; and, among modernS, BOrnardos Trevisa, Frater Basil. Valentinus, Philli se TheophraStuS i. e., ParacelSus), and many OtherS. Nor is there any cloubi that,

and by triching out their lies in the phraseology of the Sages,

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duty not to hicle the talent xvhich my Lord and Master, thegreat and good GOd, has committed io my unworthy keeping. For this reason I am Willing to fho the right way, by whichthey may attain a true knowledge of this subjeci, to ali loversos chemistry, and have put sortii this Brief Epitome and Declaration of the whole Art so far as it may be committed towriting), in the liope that through my means, God may perchance open the eyes Of some, and lead them bach Dom their preconceived notions to the right path, and so manifest to them Hismighty workS. For the greater convenience of the reader Iwill divide the work into Mur PariS. In the First part I wili set sortii the rudiments of the Art, and the best mode of preparing Oneself for iis study. In the Seconci I will shew and describe the quali ty and propertieS Of the SubStance required, as also the method of iis preparation and manipulation. In the Thirci something will be said concerning the great utility of the Art, and iis unSpeal able emcaCy and Virtiae. In the Fourth will folio v a Spirituat Allego , in Whicli this whole Magistery is set sortii, being the triae form of the HeaVenly, EVertasting, and Blessed Comer Stone of the Most High. It will also Contain a true, brief, and Simple, practicalmanual of the method of proceecling, for I am no friend of many

inho is ne that fars the Lord p He wiat inst=tici him in the right patri '