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To the Honorable Printers.

Since there are particular reasons and considerations as to why not everything that belongs to and is necessary for this ELUCIDARIUS should be given to the press in full and all at once, the honorable printers and publishers are hereby reminded to refrain from reprinting this work, so that no inaccuracy may arise from it.

SYNOPSIS

Of the Chemical Wedding of F. C. R.

in which the Præparatio lapidis aurei preparation of the golden stone is described very artfully through seven wondrous days:

I. II. III. IV. V.

Distillation, Solution, Putrefaction, Blackening, Whitening.

VI. VII.

Reddening, Multiplication, Projection, Fermentation, Medicine.

SUBSCRIPTIO.

FR. CHRISTIANUS ROSEN-

CREUTZ, Knight of the golden stone.

C. R.