The Hermetic Museum

will present. Its author is indeed un-
known, but after the re-
view of great, insightful, and expert
masters, it was found worthy of printing and
publication; and beginners can
congratulate themselves on receiving
correct concepts of an obscure scienceGerman: dunkeln Wissenschaft. This refers to alchemy or the "Hermetic art," which was considered "dark" or obscure because its secrets were hidden from the uninitiated. and its parts, within a concise scope,
which they otherwise—lacking di-
rect, wise instruction—would have had to
scrape together from many books of the
philosophersIn this context, "philosophers" refers specifically to the "Hermetic philosophers" or alchemists of antiquity and the Middle Ages..
Especially, however, they are saved for the time being,
through that work, the cost of pur-
chasing the writings of the ancient philosophers,
from which they will now find the
necessary portions excerpted for them in this
indicated work. However, it will not be su-