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Hermeticism Is The Science Of Nature Hidden In The Hieroglyphics And Symbols Of The Ancient World. It Is The Search For The Principle Of Life, Along With The Dream (for Those Who Have Not Yet Achieved It) Of Accomplishing The Great Work, That Is The Reproduction By Man Of The Divine, Natural Fire Which Creates And Recreates Beings.

Passing Beauties Are Only The Fugitive Reflections Of The Eternal. All Beauty Alters And All Life Melts Away; In Short, Everything Passes With Marvelous Rapidity; Beautiful Helen Of Troy Has Become A Toothless Skull, Then A Handful Of Dust, Then Nothing.

Mistress Of Love Or Of Hate, Occult Science Can Dispense Paradise Or Hell At Its Pleasure To Human Hearts; It Disposes Of All Forms And Confers Beauty Or Ugliness; With The Wand Of Circe It Changes Men Into Brutes And Animals Alternately Into Men.

Order Is Never Observed; It Is Disorder Which Attracts Attention Because It Is Awkward And Intrusive.

Everything Lives By Movement, Everything Is Maintained By Equilibrium, And Harmony Results From The Analogy Of Contraries; This Law Is The Form Of Forms.