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WHEN I considered in my mind the great number of deceitful books
and forged Alchemistic "receipts," which have been put in
circulation by heartless impostors, though they do not contain even
a spark of truth, and how many persons have been and are still
daily led astray by them?, it occurred to me that I could not do
better than communicate the Talent committed to me by the Father of
Lights to the Sons and Heirs of Knowledge. I also wish to let
posterity see that in our own age, as well as in ancient times,
this singularly gracious philosophical Blessing has not been denied
to a few favoured men. For certain reasons I do not think it
advisable to publish my name; chiefly, because I do not seek for
praise for myself, but am only anxious to assist the lovers of
philosophy. The vainglorious desire for fame I leave to those who
are content to seem what they, in reality, are not. The facts and
deductions which I have here briefly set down are transcribed from
that manual, experience, graciously bestowed upon me by the Most
High; and my object is to enable those who have laid a sound
foundation in the elementary part of this most noble Art, to
advance to a more satisfying fullness of knowledge, and to put them
on their guard against those depraved "vendors of smoke," who
delight in fraud and imposition. Our science is not a dream, as the
vulgar crowd imagines, or the empty invention of idle men, as the
foolish suppose. It is the very truth of philosophy itself, which
the voice of conscience and of love bid me conceal no longer. In
these wicked days, indeed, when virtue and vice are accounted
alike, the ingratitude and unbelief of men keep our Art from
appearing openly before the public gaze.
THIS 86 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Hermetic Museum
Restored, by Michael Sendivogius. To purchase the entire book,
please order ISBN 1564592847.
THIS 86 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Hermetic Museum
Restored, by Michael Sendivogius. To purchase the entire book,
please order ISBN 1564592847.
This Book Is In French. Due To The Very Old Age And Scarcity Of
This Book, Many Of The Pages May Be Hard To Read Due To The
Blurring Of The Original Text, Possible Missing Pages, Missing Text
And Other Issues Beyond Our Control.
THIS 86 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Hermetic Museum
Restored, by Michael Sendivogius. To purchase the entire book,
please order ISBN 1564592847.
This Book Is In French. Due To The Very Old Age And Scarcity Of
This Book, Many Of The Pages May Be Hard To Read Due To The
Blurring Of The Original Text, Possible Missing Pages, Missing Text
And Other Issues Beyond Our Control.
This Book Is In French. Due To The Very Old Age And Scarcity Of
This Book, Many Of The Pages May Be Hard To Read Due To The
Blurring Of The Original Text, Possible Missing Pages, Missing Text
And Other Issues Beyond Our Control.
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