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Biographical Preface	ix.
The Stone of the Philosophers Commonly known as the "Philosopher's Stone," this was the legendary substance alchemists sought to create, believed to be capable of transmuting base metals into gold and providing the "elixir of life."	1
Certain Fragments selected from the Letters of Edward Kelly	51
The Humid Way, or a Discourse upon the Vegetable Menstruum of Saturn original: "Menstruum Vegetabile Saturni." In alchemical terminology, a "menstruum" is a powerful solvent used to break down substances. "Saturn" is the symbolic name for the metal lead, while "vegetable" suggests a life-giving or organic quality rather than a purely mineral one.	55
The Theatre of Terrestrial Astronomy Alchemists often referred to their craft as "terrestrial astronomy" because they believed that the seven planets in the heavens corresponded directly to the seven metals found within the earth.	111
Index	149