Preface.

instructed and used / for which they then
needed nothing more than the true Spirit
of Mercury or Liquor Alcahest The Alcahest was a mythical universal solvent sought by alchemists, capable of reducing any body to its primary liquid form.,
as the primary key to all metals /
and minerals / in order to resolve original: resolviren; to chemically break down or dissolve a substance into its components. the Gold original symbol: ☉ and Silver original symbol: ☽
as well as other imperfect metals into
their first matter original Latin: primam materiam; the chaotic, undifferentiated base substance of all things..
Their followers have endeavored
to extract this Liquor or mercurial spirit
in various ways / both violently through
calcinations and sublimations, as well as
mildly, through digestion or putrefaction
from common mercury original Latin: Mercurio vulgi; regular quicksilver found in shops, as opposed to the refined "Philosophical Mercury" created in the lab..

How one should work with vitriols, both
native Hungarian as well as those of Iron
and Copper original Latin: Vitriolis, tam Hungarico nativo, quam Martis & Veneris. "Mars" and "Venus" are the alchemical names for iron and copper., the aforementioned Brother Basilius
Valentinus has sufficiently revealed
in the explanation of his Twelve Keys /
and the disclosure of the hidden
manual techniques / alongside
Theophrastus Paracelsus, Isaac
Hollandus, Norton, and others.

These materials, which differ in
outward appearance / but are
homogenous in their metallic root original Latin: Radice Metallicâ; the shared essence from which all metals are born.,
and furthermore...