Testament of Nicholas Flamel / [Nicolas Flamel].

  • Flamel, Nicolas, -1418
Date:
1806
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Testament of Nicholas Flamel / [Nicolas Flamel]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may be acceptable to allude to some differences in the mode of working between him and this experimented Author. Philaletha, as well as his pupil Philalethes, the author of the Marrow of Alchymy, confine their instruc- tions chiefly to the working with the Doves of Diana; yet it is evident, that Philaletlia was well acquainted with Flamel’s work, which, though radically the same, is undoubtedly the best and the most direa of the two ; and even Philalethes, who was bound by a solemn pro- mise, and who expresses himself upon certain points with caution and ambiguity, seeins to refer to this better mode in the following lines in his Marrow of Alchymy, first part of the second book : 66. Some use Diana’s Doves for to prepare The water, which a tedious labour is, And for to hit it right, an artist rare May twice for once unfortunately miss : The other way (which is most secret) we Commend to all that artists mean to be.