The Saturnian Kingdoms Converted into the Golden Age

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Reader, you may now enjoy this outstanding little treatise treatise: a formal written work on a specific subject, here referring to the alchemical text. Study this work diligently and read through it attentively. And if your own principles—if the sequence of operations operations: the specific chemical or laboratory steps in the alchemical process which you are contemplating—are in harmony with the principles and sayings of our author, then you may boldly [attempt] to enter the golden citadel of Hermes original: "auream Hermetis arcem"; a metaphorical reference to achieving the ultimate goal of alchemy, the Philosopher's Stone or the mastery of Hermetic secrets...