been customary among the philosophers to describe the high Secretum de lapide benedicto secret of the blessed stone using wonderful, flowery, and strange words, and to make it known to the world, etc.

2. Regarding the virtues and dignity of the lapidis philosophorum philosophers' stone.

3. How one arrives at the knowledge of the blessed stone, and to which people this mystery is granted, etc.

I.

The Practice of the Philosophers,

Regarding the first point, the following Testimonia testimonies and examples are to be noted:

Ovid, the ancient poet, introduces the