The Hermetic Museum

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into the light, whereby the editor focused his attention on having various printed writings of authentic philosophers, which have gone out of print, republished; to promote to print some as-yet-unprinted manuscripts, which, however, pertain only to the higher study of natureGerman: Naturlehre. In this context, it refers to the study of the hidden forces and principles of the natural world, synonymous here with the theoretical side of alchemy. and contain no recipe-mongeringGerman: Prozeßkrämereien. A dismissive term for writings that focus solely on physical chemical recipes or "processes" without understanding the underlying philosophical or spiritual principles.; as well as to promote the printing of some equally rare books of similar content that had previously appeared only in the Latin languageLatin was the universal language of European scholarship; by translating these texts into the German vernacular, the editor was making "secret" knowledge available to a broader audience., now translated into the German language. Among these manuscripts is an excellent work which entirely meets the wishes of beginners in the higher art of separationGerman: Scheidekunst. An older term for chemistry or alchemy, referring to the process of separating substances into their fundamental parts. and [presents] the principles thereof to them in the form of a compendium...