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Alkahest

Quest. 1 What is the Alkahest?
Answ. 2 It is a Catholic and Universal Menstruum A solvent used in alchemy., and, in a word, may be called (Ignis-Aqua), a Fiery-Water; an uncompounded and immortal ens A term for a fundamental being or essence., which is penetrative, resolving all things into their first liquid matter. Nor can anything resist its power, for it acts without any reaction from the patient The substance being acted upon.. Nor does it suffer from anything but its equal, by which it is brought into subjection. But after it has dissolved all other things, it remains entire in its former nature, and is of the same virtue after a thousand operations as it was at the first.