A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels
Benedictus Figulus
A Paracelsian anthology gathering the Book of the Revelation of Hermes and other treatises on the tincture and the universal medicine. Figulus assembled these to preserve the practical hermetic tradition he had learned.
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