The Great Art
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Great</strong> <strong>Art</strong> page 24<br />
we must avow that Nature alone could not multiply the metals, as does Hermetic <strong>Art</strong>. It is true that<br />
the metals contain within themselves this multiplicative property; but they are apples plucked before<br />
their maturity, according to Flamel. <strong>The</strong> perfect bodies or metals (Philosophical) contain this more<br />
perfect, more abundant germ; but it is so obstinately bound to them, that only Hermetic Solution can<br />
draw it out. He who has the secret of it, has the secret of the Magnum Opus, if we are to believe the<br />
Philosophers. It is necessary, in order to succeed, to know the agents which Nature employs to reduce<br />
the Mixts to their principles; because each body is composed of that into which it may be naturally<br />
resolved. <strong>The</strong> principles of Physics, which follow in detail, may well serve as a torch to enlighten the<br />
steps of him who would penetrate the wells of Democritus and there discover the truth, hidden in the<br />
thickest shadows. For this well is only the enigmas, the allegories, and the obscurity, scattered<br />
throughout the works of the Philosophers, who have learned from the Egyptians, as did Democritus,<br />
not to unveil the secrets of wisdom.<br />
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