Sun Without Clothing or Thirty Experiments to Extract the Purple from Gold

...hope; this treatment now exhausted this poor soul original: "guten Tropff." Literally a "good drop," an archaic German idiom for a simple or pitiable person. to such a degree that it is beyond description. His urine eventually passed with a violent burning, and for the last time, it was completely red. The aforementioned religious brother—previously a man of robust body, healthy complexion, and excellent intellect—not only lost his "master-belly" original: "Herrn-Bauch." A colloquial term for a prominent stomach, often associated with the well-fed clergy or upper classes. (as one is commonly accustomed to say), but became so thin that he was unrecognizable. His beautiful color transformed into the likeness of death, and instead of his formerly abundant intellect, he was found to be insane; he also died on the fourth day.

The Prelate of the monastery at that time wished to attempt something with this urine and use it as a menstruum universale original: "universal solvent." In alchemy, this is a substance capable of dissolving all other matter, often sought as the first step in the Great Work.. He indeed found it successful; for as was found recorded in notes after his death, it had radicaliter original: "radically" or "at the root." To dissolve a metal radically meant to break it down into its primary, liquid essence rather than just a surface-level solution. opened the gold and carried it with itself over the helm The "helm" or "alembic" is the top part of a distilling apparatus where vapors condense before flowing into the receiver..

I leave it to each individual's freedom to believe this, yet I must report that it is a poor art to drive gold over the helm. For as fixed and constant as the Corpus Solis original: "Body of the Sun," referring to gold, the metal associated with the Sun. is, it nevertheless rises quite easily into the helm when sharp Salia original: "Salts." These are acidic or reactive chemical compounds used to dissolve metals. carry it with them. I have seen something of this sort from an artist in Freisingen (now deceased), who thought quite highly of himself. This man showed me a helm and a similar receiver original: "Vorlage." The vessel that catches the condensed liquid in distillation. in which the gold had ascended. However, when it came to the point of proof, it was merely gold dissolved in