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15 Aug.

A DOCTRINE FOR YOU ONLY, 1584 - topics: travel,household_family,letters_books,angelic_spiritual,alchemy_experiment

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15 Aug. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, household family, letters books, angelic spiritual, alchemy experiment: We began on the day of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary: in the excellent little stove or study of Dr Hageck his house lent me, by Bethlehem in old Prague: which study seemed in times past (anno 1518) to have been the study of some student or skilful...

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Records travel, household family, letters books, angelic spiritual, alchemy experiment: We began on the day of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary: in the excellent little stove or study of Dr Hageck his house lent me, by Bethlehem in old Prague: which study seemed in times past (anno 1518) to have been the study of some student or skilful...

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A DOCTRINE FOR YOU ONLY, 1584

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travel,household_family,letters_books,angelic_spiritual,alchemy_experiment

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Wednesday. We began on the day of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary: in the excellent little stove or study of Dr Hageck his house lent me, by Bethlehem in old Prague: which study seemed in times past (anno 1518) to have been the study of some student or skilful of the Holy Stone. A name was in divers places of the study, noted in letters of gold and silver, Simon Baccalaureus Pragensis. And among other things manifold written very fairly in the study (and very many hieroglyphical notes philosophical, in birds, fishes, flowers, fruits, leaves and six vessels, as for the philosopher's works), these verses were over the door: Immortal honour, and equal glory, are owed to the one By whose wit this wall is adorned with colour. And of the philosopher's work (on the south side of the study) in three lines uppermost was this written: This art is precious, transient, delicate and rare. Our learning is a boy's game,

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Wednesday. We began on the day of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary: in the excellent little stove or study of Dr Hageck his house lent me, by Bethlehem in old Prague: which study seemed in times past (anno 1518) to have been the study of some student or skilful of the Holy Stone. A name was in divers places of the study, noted in letters of gold and silver, Simon Baccalaureus Pragensis. And among other things manifold written very fairly in the study (and very many hieroglyphical notes philosophical, in birds, fishes, flowers, fruits, leaves and six vessels, as for the philosopher's works), these verses were over the door: Immortal honour, and equal glory, are owed to the one By whose wit this wall is adorned with colour. And of the philosopher's work (on the south side of the study) in three lines uppermost was this written: This art is precious, transient, delicate and rare. Our learning is a boy's game,