The Hermetic Museum

A decorative horizontal woodcut ornament featuring scrollwork and floral motifs centered at the top of the page.

where he can find by an easy path
that which he had to seek by a difficult
path, and yet often had to seek without
the reward of his industry. The editor
of this work now presents to the lovers
of wisdom original: Liebhabern der Weißheit—a common term for students of alchemy and hermetic philosophy its first part
as a sample of his undertaking, and
flatters himself In the 18th-century sense: "to hope" or "to be pleased to believe" that they will receive this
and the following parts with pleasure.
In the future, one part thereof shall appear
every quarter-year, which will never
exceed the number of 12 sheets sheets: Bogen—a technical term in early modern printing referring to a large sheet of paper folded to create a signature of pages,
and this shall continue until the
supply is exhausted. How happy
he would consider himself if this work
might also contribute something toward
guiding the knowledge of the Almighty
from nature through the