Dedication.

...versation Completing the word from the previous page: "conversation" I have sufficiently perceived and experienced. But also, up to this very time, in the noble silver mine at Mariakirch Now known as Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines in Alsace, France in the Leberthal The Val de Lièpvre, a valley famous for its silver mines, you have helped to develop the mountain alongside other mine owners original: "Gwercken"; these were shareholders or partners in a mining venture who shared both costs and profits with a significant investment. In the process, you have gained and acquired no small amount of knowledge and experience regarding its nature. Because of this, Your Grace is all the more qualified to handle and conduct so many chemical operations original: "opera"; Latin for works or tasks.

For the mining of the earth is a foundation, a precursor, and a guide to the Great Universal Work original: "grossen Universal wercks"; the "Magnum Opus" or the alchemical process of creating the Philosopher's Stone of the philosophers; and Nature, through her operations original: "operationibus"; Latin for workings or natural processes, gives to the