Chemical Works

...[you are requested], that you will hide this my Paradise Table from all wicked, haughty, unjust oppressors of poor people, the proud, and such unworthy, godless people, and not let it come into their hands, under penalty of eternal pain and the damnation of your souls, which judgment GOD has spoken over such; let this be taken well to heart.

Furthermore, among the laborants original: Laboranten. While the term simply means laboratory workers, it is often used in alchemical texts to distinguish between those who merely perform chemical experiments and the "True Philosophers" who understand the spiritual nature of the work. there are other improper minds: one thinks to build great castles, or to bring himself into great favor and high standing with lords and princes through this Art. Another is a braggart, whose work in his labor perhaps produces the colors original: Colores. In alchemy, the "colors" refer to the sequence of changes—usually black (nigredo), white (albedo), and red (rubedo)—that indicated the philosopher's stone was being successfully formed. named by the Philosophers original: Philosophis. Alchemists traditionally referred to the great masters of their craft as "the Philosophers."; he rejoices beyond measure and lets it be known without shame that, when he brings the work to a successful end, he intends to go to a potentate original: Potentaten. A monarch or ruler with great power. among the Lutherans, and provide him with so much gold and silver that he might raise a strong army to drive away the Pope and all the monks.