AFTER spending the best part of my life in the study of the liberal arts and sciences, and in the company of wise men and judicious scholars, I was compelled, as the result of my observation of mankind, to arrive at the melancholy conclusion that the hearts of most persons are set either on ambitious and vainglorious projects, on sensual pleasures, or on the accumulation of wealth by all and any means; and that few care either for God or for virtue At first I did not quite know whether to become a disciple of the laughing or of the weeping philosopher, or whether to join in the exclamation of the wise Prince of Israel: "All things are vanity." But at length the Bible and experience taught me to take refuge in the study of the hidden secrets of Nature, whether pursued at home, by means of books, or abroad, in the Great Volume of the World.

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This book contains a series of pamphlets entitled: Catalogue of Books on Hermetic Philosophy, being the entire collection of General E. A. Hitchcock; Some English Alchemical Books, being an address delivered to the Alchemical Society by John Ferguson; A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy very useful to possess and pleasant to read by Michael Maier; Alchemy by Franz Hartmann; An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King by an Anonymous Sage and Lover of Truth; Theoretical Alchemy by Archibald Cockren; Alchemical Symbols and Secret Alphabets by C.J.S. Thompson; Preparations of the Sophic Mercury by Philalethes; John Frederick Helvetius' Golden Calf, which the world worships and adores; Hermetic Mercuries of Raymond Lully; Secret of the Immortal Liquor by Philalethes; A Very Brief Tract Concerning the Philosophical Stone; Five Preparations of the Philosopher's Mercury by Sir George Ripley; The Admirable Efficacy and Almost Incredible Virtue of the Oil Which is Made of Sulphur Vive Set on Fire and Commonly Called Oil of Sulphur by George Starkey; The Enigma of Alchemy by Thomas South; and The One Hundred Alchemical Aphorisms of Baro Urbigerus.

This book contains a series of pamphlets entitled: Catalogue of Books on Hermetic Philosophy, being the entire collection of General E. A. Hitchcock; Some English Alchemical Books, being an address delivered to the Alchemical Society by John Ferguson; A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy very useful to possess and pleasant to read by Michael Maier; Alchemy by Franz Hartmann; An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King by an Anonymous Sage and Lover of Truth; Theoretical Alchemy by Archibald Cockren; Alchemical Symbols and Secret Alphabets by C.J.S. Thompson; Preparations of the Sophic Mercury by Philalethes; John Frederick Helvetius' Golden Calf, which the world worships and adores; Hermetic Mercuries of Raymond Lully; Secret of the Immortal Liquor by Philalethes; A Very Brief Tract Concerning the Philosophical Stone; Five Preparations of the Philosopher's Mercury by Sir George Ripley; The Admirable Efficacy and Almost Incredible Virtue of the Oil Which is Made of Sulphur Vive Set on Fire and Commonly Called Oil of Sulphur by George Starkey; The Enigma of Alchemy by Thomas South; and The One Hundred Alchemical Aphorisms of Baro Urbigerus.

THE GOLDEN TRIPOD, OR, THREE CHOICE CHEMICAL TRACTS, NAMELY: (i.) That of BASILIUS VALENTINUS, a Monk of the Benedictine Order; called PRACTICA, with twelve Keys and an Appendix. (ii.) The CREDE MIHI, or Ordinal, of THOMAS NORTON, an English Sage. (iii.) The TESTAMENT of a certain CREMER, Abbot of WESTMINSTER. EDITED BY MICHAEL MAIER, DOCTOR OF MEDICINE

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This book contains a series of pamphlets entitled: Catalogue of Books on Hermetic Philosophy, being the entire collection of General E. A. Hitchcock; Some English Alchemical Books, being an address delivered to the Alchemical Society by John Ferguson; A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy very useful to possess and pleasant to read by Michael Maier; Alchemy by Franz Hartmann; An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King by an Anonymous Sage and Lover of Truth; Theoretical Alchemy by Archibald Cockren; Alchemical Symbols and Secret Alphabets by C.J.S. Thompson; Preparations of the Sophic Mercury by Philalethes; John Frederick Helvetius' Golden Calf, which the world worships and adores; Hermetic Mercuries of Raymond Lully; Secret of the Immortal Liquor by Philalethes; A Very Brief Tract Concerning the Philosophical Stone; Five Preparations of the Philosopher's Mercury by Sir George Ripley; The Admirable Efficacy and Almost Incredible Virtue of the Oil Which is Made of Sulphur Vive Set on Fire and Commonly Called Oil of Sulphur by George Starkey; The Enigma of Alchemy by Thomas South; and The One Hundred Alchemical Aphorisms of Baro Urbigerus.

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1656. This work was originally written in Latin and now in English for the information of those who seek after the knowledge of that honorable and mysterious society of wise and renowned philosophers, whereto is annexed an Epistle to the Fraternity in Latin, from some in England. Written in Old English. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read.

THIS 142 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Count Michael Maier, by Count Michael Maier. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0922802920.

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