AZOTH AND FIRE, original: Azoth et Ignis. Azoth was considered by alchemists to be the "universal solvent" or the essential spirit of mercury.

That is,

the true elementary

Water and Fire

Or

Mercury of the Philosophers, original: Mercurius Philoſophorum. This refers not to common quicksilver, but to a refined, spiritual substance believed to be the "soul" of metals.

As the only necessary part of the fun-
damental primal-origins and principles original: principiorum
of the Philosopher’s Stone.

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THE GOLDEN FLEECE original: Aureum Vellus

Or

Golden Fleece

What it may be,
Both in its origin,
as well as its sublime state.
Presented to the Sons of Art original: Filiis Artis; a traditional term for initiated practitioners of alchemy and lovers of Her-
metic Philosophy;
also revealing that the
First Matter of the Philosopher’s Stone original: Prima Materia Lapidis Philoſophorum,
together with its practice, is hidden therein.

By

HERMAN FICTULD. Fictuld was a pseudonym for a prolific 18th-century writer, likely Johann Gottlieb Schmidt, who was influential in the Gold and Rosy Cross order.

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LEIPZIG,

at Michael Blochberger’s, 1749.