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me. Therefore, I learned to know the Acetum acerrimum Philosophorum the sharpest vinegar of the philosophers better, and to understand differently the opening of the central sulfur through the Solution dissolution with the moist fire without coals, and the wetting with the fiery water without hands.

The Tetzen a historical alchemical text taught me the weight, Philaletha a famous pseudonym for an alchemist the vessel and furnace, and Paracelsus the philosophical time. For without this information, with equal weights, everything burned into black powder for me, who was rushing and suffering. I took the years of the philosophers for months, and the weeks for hours, so that I might obtain the Lepidum Lapidem pleasant stone in a short time.