hermetics
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The writings of Albertus Magnus, Arnaud de Villeneuve, and Raymond Lully were in the hands of the hermetics.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
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 Smith Ely Jelliffe
The others, the mages, the theosophists, the cabalists, the spiritists, the hermetics, the Rosicrucians, remind me, when they are not mere thieves, of children playing and scuffling in a cellar.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
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 Smith Ely Jelliffe
The hermetics derived their art expressly from kings, Hermes, Geber, and the patriarchs of alchemy were represented as kings.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe