Basil Valentine Revived or the Shining Star of Alchemy

Preface.

an evident test was shown to him by an Adepto adept/master in his laboratory, and he afterwards, with a little piece of tincture the size of a lentil, in the presence of two gentlemen of the Estates and two notaries—who drew up an instrument regarding it—tinged several lots of lead into good gold (see TOM. IV. HAPPELII), he completely changed his sentiment and, pro defendenda arte to defend the art, wrote a treatise titled AUREUM VITULUM The Golden Calf, which consists of a beautiful and well-executed theory. Despite this, he did not possess the art practice. The other is JOH. Joachim Becher, MED. DOCT. S. CÆS. MAJ. CONSILIARIUS Doctor of Medicine, Counselor to His Imperial Majesty; he has produced and dedicated to Leopold the First, of most glorious memory, Theses Chymiæ veritatem & possibilitatem transmutationem in aurum evincentes Theses demonstrating the truth and possibility of transmutation into gold, in which he theoretically shows the possibility of transmutation.

Whoever understands the Theoriam theory in alchemy
can achieve the same in praxi practice; since the Opus practicum practical work is not