Confession on the Universal Physico-Chemical Chaos

GREETINGS TO THE

READER.

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IT IS RIGHTLY customary regarding any matter to first ask whether it exists; and then, what it is: That the Philosophers' Stone original: "Lapidem Philosophorum"; the central goal of alchemy, believed to be a substance that could transmute base metals into gold and act as a universal medicine. exists has been demonstrated by seven foundations (a number which is not—according to the father of lies referring to the Devil—a number of falsehood; but rather, is sacred to mysterious truth, according to the Spirit of truth in the Holy Scriptures) through demonstrative and unbreakable original: "adamantinis", meaning diamond-hard or indestructible. figures