hermetics

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To replace the first by the second and, according to the demands of nature, not forcibly, is the one great aim that the hermetics follow.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

The alchemistic process is, as the hermetics themselves say, a cyclical work, and the end resides to a certain degree in the beginning.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

Only, most of the hermetics now deny medical and divine virtues to the famous stone.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

I have studied hermetic science!" exclaimed Coictier, "and I affirm—" The fiery archdeacon did not allow him to finish: "And I have studied medicine, astrology, and hermetics.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The hermetics often urge retirement, prayer and meditation, as prerequisites for the work; it is treated of still more in the hieroglyphic pictures themselves.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely