Discourse on Curious Matters

...that he would congratulate himself if he could provide something pleasant for their enjoyment, he asked them, without any further circumlocution, to reveal their desires.

"Then we are fortunate," they said, "and therefore we ourselves will not be sluggish in using this most noble time, but will hereby communicate to Mr. Marin what we have noted down concerning the previous matters of this discourse."

Mr. Marin accordingly took and looked through it, and found several questions original: Quæstiones which, due to the preceding conversation, required further explanation original: Explication, namely:

1. What is the nature of the resuscitation original: Resuscitation—the reviving or reanimating of a physical body of bodies?

How then does a universal spirit accomplish such a thing, and yet GOD may not unite Himself with any malicious soul?

2. How then might the universal tincture original: Tinctura universalis—in alchemy, a legendary substance (often identified with the Philosopher's Stone) capable of healing all diseases and perfecting matter be the ordinary or indirect original: mediata preservation of life original: conservatio vitæ?

3. If no name exists earlier than the