The Secrets of Alchemy

A Subtle Allegory
concerning the Secrets of Alchemy
very useful to possess
and pleasant to read.

-By Michael Maier

"Accident is a mighty helper; let your hook always be baited; in the least likely river you may catch your fish."

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On the Hermetic Medicine of the Phoenix

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If all the mountains were of silver and gold, what would they profit a man who lives in constant fear of death ? Hence there cannot be in the whole world anything better than our Medicine, which has power to heal all the diseases of the flesh. Wealth, and riches, and gold, all yield the prize to this glorious possession: and whoever does not think so, is not a man, but a beast.

If anyone will not acknowledge the force of reason, he must needs have recourse to authority.

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