The Hermetic North Star

1. Today, October 12, 1716, a bottle that has been in the cellar for a long time—a flask without a bottom, covered—was poured into a blind alembic head original: "slepy kapitel"; a still-head without an outlet, used for refluxing rather than distilling Sulfur original symbol: 🜍 to Sulfur original symbol: 🜍, and then Fire original symbol: 🜂; likely referring to an acidic spirit or 'spirit of fire' was placed in a large flask near the sand.

2. A large vessel original: "bożyca"; a specific type of large glass carboy or laboratory container with only red Sulfur original symbol: 🜍, without Sulfur original symbol: 🜍 The author likely means without a second type of sulfur or mercury, was uncovered and set in the sand to evaporate, covered with blotting paper.

3. At the far-right small furnace where the highest [part] of Ludwika’s Likely a reference to a specific glass vessel named "Ludwika" or belonging to someone of that name lies broken—behind that vessel located in a four-channel carboy original: "rynszkowej"; possibly referring to a vessel with a specific drainage or "gutter" shape stopped with a cork—the Mercury original symbol: ☿ standing at the entrance of the cellar Zekelaka? was placed, while the Fire original symbol: 🜂 was left in its place behind the broken flask.

4. On the 16th of November 1716, the Mercury original symbol: ☿ from the large vessel in the plain, collapsed cellar [was moved] behind the second vessel. Its Fire original symbol: 🜂, which was in a flask on the ground on the left hand, was poured into a large glass jug and placed in the spot of that same large vessel. Furthermore, the Sulfur original symbol: 🜍 from this, in a four-channel small vessel stopped with a cork, was placed in a two-handled pot at the entrance of the cellar. And [in the year] 1718, moved to my room.

5. Also on the 12th of October, from the largest vessel in the cellar-fedeber A specific local name for a part of the cellar or a storage rack standing in the corner, the Fire original symbol: 🜂 was poured into an equally large vessel with a broken neck, and then the Fire original symbol: 🜂 was poured into a bell-jar? on a tripod covered with a glass bowl.
Sulfur original symbol: 🜍 from the bell-jar was poured into the Sulfur original symbol: 🜍 on October 28.

The Sulfur original symbol: 🜍 itself was finally left in its place, and it was stirred three times by the 16th of October. 7/18 ?? / 4. 5

6. Regarding the Sulfur original symbol: 🜍 of the cracked bulb: the Mercury original symbol: ☿ is in a low, medium vessel, and the Fire original symbol: 🜂 from it is in a narrow large jar with a lid. Today, October 10, 1716, it was poured into a high vessel and placed in a copper pot at the entrance of the cellar. There is still [more] of this Fire original symbol: 🜂 in a flask and bottle in the left small furnace at the cellar entrance, as well as Sulfur original symbol: 🜍 in a large white corked [vessel] and a cracked carboy standing on the threshold entering the cellar-fadelka near the iron pot.

See the 1718 Calendar and the Replication of the Work Latin: "Replice operis".