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A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy

A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy PDF Author: Michael Maier
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781468025477
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
AFTER spending the best part of my life in the study of the liberal arts and sciences, and in the company of wise men and judicious scholars, I was compelled, as the result of my observation of mankind, to arrive at the melancholy conclusion that the hearts of most persons are set either on ambitious and vainglorious projects, on sensual pleasures, or on the accumulation of wealth by all and any means; and that few care either for God or for virtue At first I did not quite know whether to become a disciple of the laughing or of the weeping philosopher, or whether to join in the exclamation of the wise Prince of Israel: "All things are vanity." But at length the Bible and experience taught me to take refuge in the study of the hidden secrets of Nature, whether pursued at home, by means of books, or abroad, in the Great Volume of the World.
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