Particular from the Universal

I did not spare myself the journey there, and indeed found what he had described. Now, I did not know what was to be done with this. An author well-known to the Filiis Artis Sons of the Art/Alchemists taught me that one must place the plates of the body Cydar a specific mineral substance used by the author into the vessel of the sharpest vinegar. Then the flower or artificial Mercurius Mercury/Quicksilver would appear upon it like fish eyes or pearls.

I followed the instructions literally, in the firm belief that this discovered materia material was the same body. I began to perform a test with this, using the art of assaying that I had grasped out of curiosity. I went to the wine vinegar with it, and it happened, I know not how, that several bumps like pearls appeared on my ore. This was such a wonder before my eyes that I nearly