Fridrichstadt Leisure, or the Chemical Tantalus

has serenity within itself. b) Because metals owe their serenity to this water. c) Because it makes glass serene when joined with its equal, or with golden or silver serenity. Furthermore, it is called aqua vitæ water of life, stella orientalis eastern star, fons vivus living fountain, sulphur invisibile invisible sulfur. 11) The first period of chapter 48. The lapillum metallicum metallic stone, which he names, frozen water, dry water, and chapter 49, where the Elixir is made from a material apt for this and equally prepared in the same way. For Hermes himself taught in the Tabula Smaragdina Emerald Tablet, namely that which is below is as that which is above, and so conversely. Finally, I appeal to your experiment, which you write that YOU instituted several weeks ago with the liquid material of the L. P. B. Lapis Philosophorum Benedictus / Blessed Philosopher's Stone: namely, that you gave a mirror the bottom of the glass on the exterior or convex side, so elegantly mixed from blue and green with a little red, that you could not have contemplated it without a deeper pleasure of mind, for you would have sworn that a great part of the glass was drawn under a turquoise gem: This is read in YOUR letters, given on the day of June 15, 1717. Such a phenomenon will not occur in the cooking of Vitriol. We believe these things suffice: it is not pleasing to remain longer in refuting Vitriol, a dogma of frenetic Chemistry, with more arguments. Finally, I commend the reading of the Commentary on the Catholic remedy, which is read inserted in the Vanno Chymicæ Chemical Winnowing, published at Amsterdam in 1666 in 4to, which consists of 18 chapters and 76 pages; if anyone reads this through, they will easily be brought to a better mind, and from the crossroads back onto the royal road. And so, my dearest Friend! I have written these things to YOU. I could destroy this palladium with a greater phalanx of arguments from the aforementioned Caneparius in the said place, if time permitted and if other business did not also claim me for itself. Farewell! Favor me! Best of friends. T. T. Nestor II. Kiel, June 6, 1717, at the first hour in the afternoon ☽.

Addition.

These were the things that it was my intention to bring forward in this my Epistle to this most celebrated Chemist, against the Patrons of Vitriol. If we weigh the Symbols which the twelve Adepts collected to indicate the material of the L. P. B., then much occurs in them which can in no way be explained by Vitriol.

The Symbol of Hermes Trismegistus, King of the Egyptians and leader: