The Hermetic Museum — Volume II
Historical edition · 1893 · 116,886 words
The second volume of the historical alchemical anthology, completing the collection's twenty-two treatises. Continues its exploration of transmutation, philosophical mercury, and the language of the great work.
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As the Nile with its overflowing waters floods the surround- ing country, and covers it with fertilizing slime, bearing in it the promise of a rich and laughing harvest, so the genius of Norton overflows its banks far and wide, while he makes known to us the glorious works of Nature. He spreads himself abroad over an immensity of space, that he may fertilize the fields of Alchemy, and rejoice the hearts of its husbandmen. If you are fortunate you will catch beneath this wide expanse of waters a fish which will satisfy the longing of your heart. And if you fail of suc- cess, yet your mind will be stored with the precious treasures of knowledge, and you will in any case be richly rewarded for your labour. "The treasures of Hermes are not…
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