Friedrichstadt Leisure or the Chemical Tantalus

b) because metals owe their clarity to this water. c) because it clears glasses joined to their equal with a golden or silver clarity. Furthermore, it is called water of life, eastern star, living fountain, invisible sulfur. 11) The first period of chapter XLVIII. The metallic little stone, which it names, congealed water, dry water, and chapter XLIX, where the Elixir is made from matter apt for this and equally prepared. For Hermes himself taught in the Tabula Smaragdina Emerald Tablet, namely that which is below is as that which is above, and so vice versa. Lastly, I appeal to your experiment, which you write that YOU initiated some weeks ago with the liquid matter of the L. P. B.: namely, that you gave the glass mirror bottom on the exterior or convex part so elegantly mixed from blue and green with a little red, that you could not have looked upon it without deep pleasure of the mind, for you would have sworn that a great part of the glass had been turned into a turquoise gem: This is read in YOUR letters, given on the 15th of June, 1717. Such a phenomenon will not occur in the cooking of Vitriol. We think these suffice: it does not please me to dwell further on refuting Vitriol, that dogma of phrenetic Alchymia alchemy. Finally, I recommend the reading of the Commentatio commentary on the pharmaco Catholico Catholic remedy, which is read inserted in the Vanno Chymica Chemical Winnowing, edited at Amsterdam in 1666 in quarto, which consists of XVIII chapters, 76 pages; if anyone reads through this, he will easily be reduced to a better mind, and from the crossroads to the royal road. And thus, my most beloved Friend! I have written these things to YOU. I could destroy this palladium safeguard with a greater phalanx of arguments from the said Caneparius, if time permitted, and other business did not claim me for itself. Farewell! Be favorable! Best of friends. T. T. Nestor II. Kilia Kiel, 1717, 6th of June ☽ Moon at the first hour after noon.

Addition.

These were the things that I intended to bring forward in this letter to this most celebrated chemist against the patrons of Vitriol. But if we examine the symbols that the twelve Adepti adepts collected to indicate the matter of the L. P. B., then much occurs in them that can in no way be explained by Vitriol.

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