Chemical Works

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ordained a healing Universal Remedy original: Universal-Mittel; in this context, the author refers to a sovereign cure-all, often associated in alchemical literature with the Philosopher's Stone used for medicine.,
through which the soul of man could
be preserved and freed from eternal
death; why He did not also share such
a Universal Remedy with mankind,
whereby his miserable, weak, and
needy body in this temporal life
might also be helped against all want,
illness, and poverty. With these and
similar thoughts, I was burdened for
no small amount of time. Then it came
to pass, doubtless through the
Providence original: Schickung; suggesting a divinely ordained event or destiny. of the Most High original: Allerhöchsten; a common epithet for God., that
I became acquainted with two Students original: Studiosis
who, in the city where I dwell, were
instructing the children of noble
people; and after I had conversed
with them for a while, I perceived
from their discourses that they
were quite experienced in languages
and the fine arts, while also leading
an honorable life and conduct. They
were not as proud and arrogant as
young fellows commonly are in these
times, who, having perhaps once been
thrashed on the backside with a
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew grammar original: Lateinischen, Griechischen und Hebräischen Donat; referring to Aelius Donatus, a 4th-century grammarian whose name became a generic term for any basic introductory textbook., let themselves