The Hermetic Museum

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nothing less than the intention to make proselytes original: "Proseliten" — in this context, converts or new recruits to a belief system. of the Royal Art Alchemy; the traditional term for the practice of transmuting base metals into gold and seeking spiritual perfection.. It is especially intended for the future student of wisdom, and for him, rational proofs, proven facts, sworn statements, and historical testimonies were sufficient to overcome his old doubts. The others, whose purpose is indeed a thirst for gold, but not wisdom, art, and virtue—and with them the army of those who contradict the holy truth—cannot read these pages with profit; it will be a true honor for these leaves not to be thumbed through by their hands.

A story which serves as proof of the artificial transmutation of metals—and which, as a real fact for the authenticity of which the author stakes his honor and his life, can stand up to all doubt—shall be planted here in place of all other arguments. People still living, who were involved with this matter, would swear to the fact to any gainsayer if it were worth the effort to so seal that truth—which has already appeared so often without a veil among men—in order to completely disarm the prejudices held against it. The master and the student of the art will find

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