Hermes Trismegistus's True Ancient Way of Nature

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Hermes Trismegistus’s

True Ancient Path of Nature.

Introduction.

I shall make the beginning of this mystery in the name of Jesus, the Son of the eternal God, who may enlighten my understanding and yours through His power and light, to His praise, honor, and glory, Amen!

Holy Scripture says: that there is only one entrance for all people into this life, and this is also the same exit. For just as we are born into this world, so we are also reduced again by the same means into the first matter original Latin: primam materiam; the formless base of all substance, like a grain of wheat which, thrown into the earth Alchemical symbol ▽, is born anew through the death of putrefaction the process of decay that alchemists believed was necessary for rebirth and multiplied into a hundredfold fruit; and all this occurs through the universal spirit of the world original Latin: spiritus mundi universalis; represented by the alchemical symbol ♎ (Libra/Balance), signifying the equilibrium of nature, which opens and closes, and [provides] the movement for