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without our work, because its purpose will be completely frustrated.

Why our Stone is called:

And if you do not understand the stone now, you will never understand it. Haly Likely Haly Abenragel, an Arabic authority frequently cited in medieval alchemical texts. says, and the King in the Turba The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Philosophers), one of the earliest and most famous Latin alchemical texts, presented as a transcript of a meeting of ancient sages. says: "Our Stone is found at all times, in every place, and among all people."

Arnald of Villanova A celebrated 13th-century physician and alchemist known for his medical and chemical treatises. says: hold firmly to the fact that the expenses of our most noble art do not exceed the price of two gold coins original: "duorum aureorum." Alchemists often emphasized that the "First Matter" of the Stone was common and cheap, to distinguish it from "sophistic" or fraudulent alchemy that used expensive metals., not including the purchased material materia | the "First Matter" or base substance chosen for the alchemical process: that is, in the operation operatio | the specific laboratory procedures and chemical transformations: it is necessary, however, that the [substance] itself...