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Khunrath, Heinrich · 1607

Sour or Sweet, Sharp or Gentle, Strong or Weak WATER; Vinegars; distilled and rectified Spirits; powders; Salts; or any other such foreign thing, (as has hitherto been common among PHYSICIANS and Alchemical Laboratory-workers, here and there, in their preparations of NOBLE and OTHER STONES, and still is,) even if the same were to be—in the name of GOD'S World—in any way that it could, might, or would, through artificial Spagyric HAND-GRIPS, convenient VESSELS, and necessary FIRE-AID, (inasmuch as FIRE also bores through and makes soft hard BOULDERS and large firm ROCKS: Yes, even GOD the LORD himself, this entire WORLD once upon a time,)
He who always excludes everything foreign, he, certainly, never admits anything of this kind.
This WORK does not enter into Garip, that is, anything else, to speak philosophically with the very ancient philosopher MORIENUS.
This is also known, besides me, by experienced Miners, who can well testify to it with truth, from their PLACING [of wood and fire] in the mountain with wood and fire. Mahomet also uses this phrase in the Alkoran.
In HUMOR PER.