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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os His most Holy Name, and sor the good of thy suffering

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iis StageS. ECCLESIAST. XI.

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foundation a Stone, a trieae Sione, a precisus comer Stone, a fure fundation. He that has it Mali not be coninound

The numerous writers on Our most nobi e Art have never

of the fusibili ty of was by the si illed hand of the artist adjusting

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consumed by fire. For iis eis is the universat and spari ling flameos the light of Nature, whicli has the heavenly Spirit in iiself, with whicli it was animaled at first by God, Who pervades allthings, and is called by δε vicenna, the Soul of the worid. For asthe foui lives arid moves in ali the members of the body, so that spirit lives and moves in ali elementary CreaturOS, and i Sthe in dissolubie bond of body and foui, the purest and most nobie essen e in whicli lie hid ait mysteries in their inexhausti bie

ascribe to it infinite Divine power and virtve when they Saythat it is the Spirit of the Lord who filis the Universe, and in the beginning moveo upon the face of the waters. They also cali it the spirit of truth that is hid in the worid, and cannot heunderstood without the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, or theteaching of those who know it. It is found potentiali every-where, and in everything, but in ali iis persection and mlnesson ly in one thing. In Shori, it is a Spirituat Essen ce whicli istaei ther celestial nor infernal, hut an aeriat, pure, and preciOUSbody, in the m id die belween the highest and lowest, the Choicestand nobi est thing under heaven. But by the ignorant and thebeginner it is thought to be the vilest and meanest of things. Itis Sought by many Sages, and Mund by se v ; suspected by thOSe that are far away, and received by those that are near ;Seen by ali, but known by law, as yOu may See Dorn the sollowing

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THE SOPHIC HYDROLITH.

AN ENIGMA OF THE SAGES, In whicli the underi ying substance of the Art, called the Phoenix of the Sages, is found to be thrice three ld. I f I teli 3 ou three paris os a thing you have nO CRUSe to Complain. Seeli one os three, and of the three onewill be there : r where there is body and solii, there is also Spirit. and there

ing is thou findest it. V

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men who set abolit this matter With great levi ty and were heavi lypunished by meeting so me of them) with satat accidenis in their

All this can be accomptished with our Pontic and Catholicwater, whicli in iis refluent Course irrigates and fertiliges thewhole earth, and is S eet, beauti fui, Clear, limpid, and brighter than gold, Sit Ver, Carbuncles, Or diam Ond S. This bl essed wateris enclosed and Containeci in our Matier. Then the extracted Heari, Soul, and Spirit must Once morebe distilled and conden sed into one by their Own pro per Salt whicli in the interior of the substance is first os a blood-red colour, but then beComes of a bright, Clear, and tran Sparent white, and is called by the Sages the Salios Wisdom). You havethus firsi, by what iS called the anterior procesS, Separated the pure Dom the impure, and first rendered the visibie invisibie, then, again, the invisibie visibie Or palpable butyet no longer sogrOSS and Shapetess AS it was at first), and it is now a b right bodywith a pleaSant, penetrating smeli, and withal so subile and ethereal that is it were not fixed it would evaporate and vanish

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dissering not only in quality, but also in quantity, sor the first is,

aster iis preparation, ethereat, thin, Subile, and SOft, while theother is very heavy, firm and hard) have been combined in asolutory alembic, and reduced to a dry liquid Or amalgam, theyshould be lest si X or severa clayS CXposed to gentie heat os atteast a tepid character. Thera talae one part of the three paris ofwater, and pour it into a roundi OVal glaSS Phial, Similar to an

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egg in shape ; put the tempered liquid in the mi ist thereos, and

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tinges and Colours the iron, and asterwards will not rem alia fixedin the fi re-you may regares ali these indications as symptonsos a false composition and temperature, or os Some kind or Other

I f one or more of the above desecis are observed, the whole compotand must again be taken Out of the phial, and Once more solved in the asoresaid water Os mercu also Called virgin's milli or the milli, blood, and gweat of the First Matter, or the never-sai ling untain, or the water of lis , whicli nevertheless Contains themost malignant polson); with this water it must once more bemoistened and Saturaled, and then subjected to the action of the fire, untii there is no longer any sublimation or formation ofgaseous Vapoiars ; Or illi the final Coagulation has duly taken place, as described above. Os iis subsequent sermentation and multiplication, and of iis uses, more Will be Sald in the thirci pari. of the time requirect for the whole process, it is impossibieto Say anything very definite ; and , in deed, the Sages have put