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clearly presented. Finally, there follow the
supporting passages original: Beweißstellen—citations or evidence used to validate a claim from the writings of the
true philosophers In this context, "philosophers" refers to alchemical authors or "Adepts" who were believed to possess true knowledge of nature, concerning the presented
principles of the chapter; this section,
besides the utility of a chrestomathy chrestomathy: a collection of selected passages from authors, used here as a study aid of those
excellent writers, can also serve as a
concordance concordance: an alphabetical list of the principal words or themes in a book, showing where they occur and how they relate; as the passages that
harmonize with one another are
cited together. These now explain, piece
by piece, the contents of the chapter to
which they belong, and these contents are
in turn explained by the passages.
In this way, the beginner
does not have to spend so much time on the
comparison of the various
opinions of the philosophers regarding a
matter; instead, as a beginner, he only
needs to concern himself with the reading of this book,