On the Secrets of the Adepts

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...poles Completing the word "polorum" from the previous page's catchword "poli." in its description, and it is the Spirit
of Wine, not the common kind, but the Philosophical kind, through
the knowledge and possession of which there will lie open to the owner
the greatest mysteries of secret Chemistry—
philosophical, medical, alchemical, and ma-
gical. In none of the books of the Adepts Adepts: Alchemists who have successfully achieved the "Great Work" and discovered the Philosopher's Stone.
known to me thus far have I found anything rare
that does not owe its very existence and origin to
this Spirit; so much so that I would dare to assert
that whatever chemical Spirits—both lower and
upper, fixed and volatile—can perform,
this same spirit of ours shall perform
likewise.

This was the reason that I spent
all my effort and "oil" original: "operam & oleum." A Latin idiom meaning to work late into the night by lamp-light; to toil fruitlessly or with great intensity., and left no stone
unturned for the sake of acquiring or obtaining
this Spirit of Wine. And while I turned and
returned in my mind those abstruse,
varied, and masked terms with which they
clouded it—as if it were the key to all
Philosophy—behold, the fame of your great name
greeted me in Vilnius Vilna: The capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania., the metropolis of
Lithuania—