hermetics
Example Sentences
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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 Smith Ely Jelliffe
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
Only, most of the hermetics now deny medical and divine virtues to the famous stone.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
Other inscriptions were written, in accordance with the fashion of the hermetics, in great numbers on the walls; some traced with ink, others engraved with a metal point.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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 Isabel Florence Hapgood
