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But what did Borel do to find such a great number? He divided and split writers in two, sometimes even in three or four. He included imaginary names, such as those marked in the Turba Philosophorum Assembly of the Philosophers, whose author, under the guise of an assembly of scholars that never took place, parades all the ancients before us; they had not even thought of Hermetic Science, and he puts some maxim or philosophical parable into their mouths. Often Borel copies Nazari, who similarly cited authors who were either chimerical or whose writings are not known, and never will be. Finally, to enlarge his volume, he slips in books of pure medicine, which have no relation to Hermetic Science. Moreover, when Borel speaks, one feels that he is not