The Hermetic Museum, Vol. I — trans. A. E. Waite (1893)
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THE HERMETIC MUSEUM
RESTORED AND ENLARGED.
Edition limited to 2 50 numbered, coftes.
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HERMETIC MUSEUM,
RESTORED AND ENLARGED:
MOST FAITHFULLY INSTRUCTING ALL DISCIPLES OF THE SOPHO-SPAGYRIC ART HOW THAT GREATEST AND TRUEST MEDICINE OF
JDEPE BXLDEOSOBRLIBRS STONES
MAYV BE FOUND AND HELD.
Now FIRST DONE INTO ENGLISH FROM THE LATIN ORIGINAL PUBLISHED AT
FRANKFORT IN THE YEAR 1678.
Containing Tuwenty-two most celebrated Chemical Tracts.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
MOTIUMUE I.
3X onbon :
JAMES ELLIOTT AND CO,
TEMPLE CHAMBERS, FALCON CoumT, FLEET STREET, E.C.
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PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH ÉDITION
PREFACE TO THE OmnRiGINAL EDITION
I—Tnur GorpEN TmRacT concerning the Stone of the
Philosophers, by an Anonymous German Adept
II.— Tur GorpEN Acre ResrogEp : Having now appeared a second time, flourished beautifully, and brought forth fragrant and Golden Seed. 'This rare and precious Seed is shewn and imparted to all the Sons of True Wisdom and the Doctrine, by Henry Madathanas
III.—Tnurx Soprnic HypnorrrH ; or, Water Stone of the Wise, that is, a Chemical Work, in which the Way is shewn, the Matter named, and the Process described ; namely, the Method of obtaining the Universal Tincture ... sot ES
IV. —A DEMONSTRATION OF NATURE, made to the erring
Alchemists, and complaining of the Sophists and other False Teachers. Set forth by John A. Mehung
V.—A SnHonT TRacr, or PmuHiLosoPHiCAL SuMMARY, by
Nicholas Flamell
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VI.—THr ONLY TnRuE Wav; or, an useful, good, and helpful Tract, pointing out the Path of Truth
VII.—THEs GronRvy or THE WoRrp ; or, Table of Paradise ; that is-to say, a True Account of the Ancient Science which Adam learned from God Himself; which Noah, Abraham, and Solomon held as one of the Greatest Gifts of God ; which also all Sages, at all times, preferred to the wealth of the whole world, regarded as the Chief Treasure of the whole world, and bequeathed only to Good Men; namely, the Science of the Philosopher's Stone is asc
VIII.—A TRAcT or GREAT PRicE, published by a German Sage in the year 1423, under the following title : 'The True Teaching of Philosophy concerning the Generation of Metals and their True Origin
IX.—4A Vzrnvy BRrgzF TRACT CONCERNING THE PHILOSOPHICAL
SroNr. Written by an unknown German Sage,
about 200 years ago, and called The Book of Alze...
X.—THE Book or LAMBSPRING, a noble ancient Philosopher,
concerning the Philosophical Stone, by Nicholas
Barnaud Delphinas
XL—THEÉ GorpEN TmiPop; or, Three Choice Chemical
Tracts, namely: That of Basilius Valentinus, a
Monk of the Benedictine Order, called Practica,
with Twelve Keys and an Appendix ...
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DO TqUEH BINGIPSH EDITION.
HE HERMETIC MUSEUM RESTORED AND ÉNLARGED was published in Latin at Frankfort, in the year 1678, and, as its title implies, it was an enlarged form of an anterior work which, appearing in 1625, is more scarce, but, intrinsically, of less value. Its design was apparently to supply in a compact form a representative collection of the more brief and less ancient alchemical writers; in this respect, it may be regarded as a supplement to those large storehouses of Hermetic learning such as the Z7eatrum Chemicum, and that scarcely less colossal of Mangetus, the 2z0Zotheca Chemzca Cu*iosa, which are largely concerned with the cream of the archaic literature, with the works of Geber and the adepts of the school of Arabia, with the writings attributed to Hermes, with those of Raymond Lully Arnold de Villa Nova, Bernard Trevisan, and others. TuE HERMETIC MUSEUM would also seem to represent a distinctive school in Alchemy, not altogether committed to certain modes and terminology which derived most of their prestige from the past, and sufficiently enigmatical as it was, still inclined to be less obscure and misleading than was the
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