The Resurrected

Brother Basilius Valentinus,

of the Benedictine Order.

A thorough, truthful, and detailed

Explanation

Process set in rhyme by Basilius Valentinus

in his book concerning the

Great Stone of the Ancient Sages,

In a description that is not deceptive original: sophistisch; in alchemical literature, "sophistry" refers to false, fraudulent, or purely chemical processes that do not lead to the true "Stone." / but thorough

and truthful,

describing

Stone of the Sages Stone of the Sages: Better known as the Philosopher’s Stone (Latin: Lapis Philosophorum), a legendary substance that alchemists believed could transmute base metals into gold and serve as a universal medicine. /

may be made today just as well

as it was already made

several thousand years ago,

PHILOSOPHERS,

fundamentally cured and healed all chronic

and otherwise incurable diseases in

humans and metals.

Faithfully published for all the poor and sick,

as well as for abandoned widows and orphans.

Johann Joachim Weitbrett, Surgeon in

Deckenpfronn, District of Calw.

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