Brewer's: Hermetic Philosophy

A system which acknowledges only three chemical principles— viz. salt, sulphur, and mercury—from which it explains every phenomenon of nature. (See Hermes.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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