The Little Golden Olympic Treasury

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To the favorable and kind-hearted Philochemical A "Philochemist" is a lover of the chemical or alchemical arts. Reader.

Favorable Reader / the Creed Original Latin: Symbolum; here referring to a professional or spiritual statement of belief, likely the "Alchemical Creed" attributed to Bernard of Trevisan. of Lord Bernard, Count of Trevisan, has been published alongside other chemical writings in Frankfurt am Main: but because that version is by no means in accordance with my handwritten manuscript / much therein is falsified / and the best parts / on which most depends / were occasionally omitted / just as occurred in the preceding golden tract The Secrets of Magic by Dr. Theophrastus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus (1493–1541), the influential Swiss-German physician and alchemist., concerning the three blessed Magical Stones / etc.; I have wished to publish it once more in such a form Original Latin: in tali forma, alongside the beautiful, well-founded report of Brother Vincent—a Monk of the Preacher Order The Dominican Order (Ordo Praedicatorum). and a Philosopher of Danzig Now Gdańsk, Poland.—which has never been seen before / concerning the first root of the tincture and the matter of the philosopher’s stone, together with other additions, etc., for the benefit of you and all Sons of Doctrine Original Latin: Filiis doctrinae; a traditional term for initiated students of hermetic or alchemical knowledge.. Compare Original Latin: Conferir both copies of the Apostolic Creed and the Magic Secret of Theophrastus, and you will clearly see the difference. If I perceive that this, as well as the following chemical tracts, are pu-