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Highly Esteemed and Knowledge-Seeking Reader!

The following reasons moved me to complete this present treatise and send it to the press: A year ago, I published a small book under the title: The following title is underlined in blue ink by a later hand. The necessary NOSCE TE Know Yourself, for the preservation of the life-flames, through a double Panacea universal cure, which is præpariret prepared from the true Minera Solis mineral of the sun/gold-bearing mineral of the Sophorum wise men through correct spagyrische Handgriffe spagyric/alchemical techniques. However, because the Esse essence of the aforementioned work required here and there that I use the terminology of the Sophorum, and especially at the testing of the Panacea, several people concluded that I must possess both the Praxin practical application and Theoriam theory of the wise, and thus a complete