Are we so sure the translations from latin of Artephius’s Secret Book incipit are faithful? English and French are indeed neither correct nor knowledgeable.
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Guido Montanor & Latin Verb Tingo-Tinxi
Guido de Montanor’s use of latin verbs is superbly scholarly. In fact, tingo-tinxi reveals to be something much more sophisticated than a too-easy dying.
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Guido de Montanor, in his Scala Philosophorum, which is a real stair of transmutations instead of the classic seven operations stairs, uses a more ancient list.
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Instead of distillations on liquids and oils extracted from plants, in chap three, Johannes Isaac Hollandus has salts ground, dissolved in distilled vinegar, then raised with subtle combustible spirits,
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The third Level is the Solution in Scala Transmutationis. Gerardus Dorneus in Congeries Paracelsicae, 1581, deals with this challenging and confusing level between the Labors of Hercules and Main Work.
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