Fasciculus chemicus, or, Chymical collections : expressing the ingress, progress, and egress of the secret Hermetick science, out of the choisest and most famous authors ..: whereunto is added, the Arcanum, or, Grand secret of hermetick philosophy . laid dawn in the ProlegOiTienaAnd withal^ finding it a piece of veryEminent Learning and Regard^ / ai-\ventured to tranfiate it Ukewife , anAferfwaded the Printer to joyn them intoone Book, which I hope will not difli^sthe Reader, nor overcharge the Buyerjind thoHgh in the Tranflation thereof^I have ufed the fame folemnity and refervationy as in th
Fasciculus chemicus, or, Chymical collections : expressing the ingress, progress, and egress of the secret Hermetick science, out of the choisest and most famous authors ..: whereunto is added, the Arcanum, or, Grand secret of hermetick philosophy . laid dawn in the ProlegOiTienaAnd withal^ finding it a piece of veryEminent Learning and Regard^ / ai-\ventured to tranfiate it Ukewife , anAferfwaded the Printer to joyn them intoone Book, which I hope will not difli^sthe Reader, nor overcharge the Buyerjind thoHgh in the Tranflation thereof^I have ufed the fame folemnity and refervationy as in the former ^ and finch ashefits fo venerable and tranfcendent a^f-Secret: TetIhope^ thatthofiewho (/^t||vored with a propitious Birth) fearcfiinto the Sacred Remains of Ancient]Learning, admire the rare and di/guifeeffeH^s of ^zzuxQ^and through their Pietand Hone%, become worthy of it, mafinde Ariadnes thred to conduB themthrough the delufive windings of this aintricate ijihynmh. I* April. 165Q. I^^^ James Hafolle. g? ^ fe# ^€? w W ^ ^ ^i TO THE lis TU DENTS IN 14 Chymiftry. Lthough(accord-ing to Arijlotle)Mufick be rank-ed in the num-ber of Sciences:yet we read howK. Philip taunt-^id his Son Alexander ^ when hebund him Harmonioufly finging,. To the Students in Chjmiftry. in thefc words 5 Alexander^ Art et thou ajhamed to (ing ($finely ?By which words he accounts itdiflionorablc foraKobie Man toufe that Art puWikely 5 but ratherwhen he is at leifure: Privatelyeither to refre(h his Spirits, orithere be any difpute concerning |i^Phyfick, that it fhouid be tempercd with all Harmonical fweetnefs,and proportion. In like manneriit is (to our grief be it fpoken)with the Art of Chyrpiftry-jwhileft it is fo much d€faincd,difjparaged, and brought into dif-igrace, by the fraudulent dealingJlx^of Impoftors, as that whofoevc|(i(profeifes it vfliallftill be ftigmatizewith Publike Reproach. pj^ Neverthelefs very many, yaptoo many there are to be foun« g(at this day vXprpfeffing I know no j
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