Harmony or Consensus of the Chemical Philosophers

[pla]ces Completing the word "planis" from the previous page., it might protect those limping from a fall, supplying Ariadne’s thread In Greek mythology, Ariadne’s thread allowed Theseus to navigate the Labyrinth; here it represents a guide through the complex "maze" of alchemical literature. to the former, and an old man’s staff original: "senis fulcrum." A metaphor for support and stability provided to those struggling with the material. to the latter. In this way, you will keep what is yours for yourselves, and you will dismiss the cucurbits cucurbitas: gourd-shaped glass vessels used as the base of an alembic for distillation, aludels aludelia: pear-shaped pots used as condensers in the process of sublimation, matrasses matratia: long-necked glass flasks, often called "bolt-heads," used for digestion and boiling, and other instruments of that kind to the glassmakers, and the small furnaces to the potters. This, I say, is the Harmony, which will convict of ignorance all those who mutter that those ancient Philosophers of a bygone age never had any consensus among themselves. This is the very same Harmony, which, after two ye[ars] The text ends with the catchword "an-", likely for "annos" (years). had been spent in constant labor and diligent watchfulness...