The Fire-Stone of Basil, or the Golden Apple

remain an overcomer of them: regarding this, Your Majesty may receive a more verbal and detailed report. I have presaged your victory and its timing to His Imperial Majesty, and because of this continued faithful steadfastness, I have been persecuted by the opposing party in many ways. Through this, however, I was not altered, but rather only instigated toward the confession of the Orthodoxae Catholicæq; Religionis Orthodox and Catholic religion.

Since the Almighty GOD has now brought about the victories of Your Royal Majesty, I could not refrain, out of the most submissive and faithful affection I bear toward Your Royal Majesty, from most humbly congratulating you on this obedience.

The heathens received their victors with special triumphal ceremonies, and the Hebrews with glorious instrumental and vocal music. Your Royal Majesty, as a high Christian head and conqueror, I wish to present most submissively with this golden apple, as with such a fruit, with which—as the imperial signum rotundum pomi formam repræsentans round sign representing the form of an apple, called the Imperial Orb—a philosophical booklet is presented for the benefit of the human race concerning the true universalis auro potabili universal potable gold, its preparation, and its powers. No philosopher has ever done so as clearly, but this is done so that, just as the long-oppressed justice has been raised through your most glorious and happiest victory, so too might the aurum potabile potable gold, made hateful by the ignorant, retain the triumph as a gift from the Highest for the preservation of human life among other arcanis medicis medical secrets. Furthermore, because I know that the noble Chymia chemistry/alchemy awakens such a true, fervent desire for GOD and his secrets imprinted in nature, and greatly encourages a vita spirituali contemplativa contemplative spiritual life, and because until this day great secret arts have been discovered in other fields as well as in medicine, for the preservation of human bodily