General Principles of Physics According to Hermetic Philosophy

General Principles of Physics According to Hermetic Philosophy. 

Errors have their source in prejudice as well as in the want of knowledge and sound instructions. The true road must be very simple, since there is nothing more simple than the operations of Nature. But although traced by this same Nature, it is little frequented and even those who pass in it make it their jealous duty to conceal their steps with thorns and brambles. One walks there only, through the obscurity of fables and enigmas it is very difficult not to go astray, unless a guardian angel bears the torch before us.  

10 Therefore I will not step one step farther without a Guide, for I dread going again into the Labyrinth. (Collectanea Hermetica, edited by Dr. Wynn Westeott. Vol. III. A Short Enquiry Concerning the Hermetic Art, by a Lover of Philalethea, page 30). 

See Traite Methodique de Science Occulted by Papus, p. 643, for irrefutable proofs of the possibility of the Transmutation of metals. 

Theory of Descartes, who taught that every star was a sun occupying the center of an immense circulary current within which moved each planet, itself the center of an interior current. These whirlwinds, in spite of their inequality in regard to the space they occupy, are nevertheless compensated by the rapports existing between the volume of the central body and the expanse of the current. E.B. 

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