Der gülden Gesundbrunnen

prepared in their original natural properties, were never prescribed by Theophrastus or Basilius to be recognized, administered, or praised as particularly high general, perfectè arcanen universal, perfectly secret remedies. Instead, they were put on paper much more for the beginning, imperfect imperfect students of medicine and Alchimiæ alchemy. They serve as information and a starting point for laboriren working through the degrees. One must rise from the lowest degree to the highest: from imperfection, through perfection perfection, until reaching plusquam perfection more than perfection. This is done to explore the highest understanding of nature’s secrets and gifts.

For it would be almost shameful for a perfecter perfect or especially a plusquam perfecter more than perfect doctor of medicine to bolster his commendable authority with imperfect, particular specific student-pranks. This is especially true since all imperfectiones imperfect things, such as extracts remaining in their first natural state, are still too earthy. The spiritus spirits or volatile essences are still too fleeting. The Solien salts are still too corrosivisch corrosive. The oliteten oils are still too dark. The aquositeten waters are of too light a power to bring the spiritus vitales hominis vital spirits of man into the highest