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    The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine: Concerning The Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. Original 1599 Edition
    The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine: Concerning The Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. Original 1599 Edition
    The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine: Concerning The Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. Original 1599 Edition
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    The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine: Concerning The Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. Original 1599 Edition

    By Basil Valentine and Johann Thölde

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    One of the most well known books on alchemy, The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine,  is a allegorically encrypted set of instructions on how to create the philosopher's stone, a legendary substance that can turn base metals into gold. Some say the philosopher's stone is actually a reference to the recipe for immortality. 

    The magical substance or how to create it has been searched for by such great minds as Sir Isaac Newton and has inspired popular culture for years. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Feline
    Release dateSep 2, 2019
    ISBN9788834179444
    The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine: Concerning The Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. Original 1599 Edition

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      The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Basil Valentine

      Basil Valentine

      The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine

      Concerning The Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. Original 1599 Edition

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      Table of contents

      Preface

      First Key

      Second Key

      Third Key

      Fourth Key

      Fifth Key

      Sixth Key

      Seventh Key

      Eighth Key

      Ninth Key

      Tenth Key

      Eleventh Key

      Twelfth Key

      Concerning the First Matter of the Philosophical Stone

      A short Appendix and clear Resumption of the foregoing Tract concerning the Great Stone ofthe Ancient Sages

      Now follows concerning Sulphur

      Now I will also give my Opinion respecting the Salt of the Sages

      Thanks be to God.

      Postscript

      Credits

      The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine

      Concerning The Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. Original 1599 Edition

      The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine was first published in 1599

      First Black Feline Edition 2019

      Black Feline 2019 All Rights Reserved till Cthulhu rises from the deeps.

      Preface

      When I had emptied to the dregs the cup of human suffering, I was led to consider the wretchedness of this world, and the

      fearful consequences of our first parents' disobedience. Then I saw that there was no hope of repentance for mankind, that they

      were getting worse day by day, and that for their impenitence God's everlasting punishment was hanging over them; and I made

      haste to withdraw myself from the evil world, to bid farewell to it, and to devote myself to the service of God.

      When I had spent some years at the monastery, I found that after I had performed my work and my daily devotions I still had

      some time on my hands. This I did not wish to pass in idleness, lest my evil thoughts should lead me into new sins; and so I

      determined to use it for the study and investigation of those natural secrets by which God has shadowed out eternal things. So I

      read a great many books in our monastery written in olden times by philosophers who had pursued the same study, and was

      thereby stimulated to a more ardent desire of knowing that which they also knew. Though I did not make much progress at

      first, yet at last God granted my earnest prayer, and opened my eyes that I might see what others had seen before me.

      In the convent there was a brother, who was afflicted with a severe disease of the kidneys, and to whom none of the many

      physicians he had consulted had been able to give even momentary relief. So he had committed himself to the hand of God,

      and despaired of all human aid.

      As I loved him, I gathered all manner of herbs, extracted their salts, and distilled various medicines. But none of them seemed

      to do him the slightest good, and after six years I found that I had tried every possible vegetable substance, without any

      beneficial effect.

      At last I determined to devote myself to the study of the powers and virtues which God has laid into metals and minerals and

      the more I searched the more I found. One discovery led to another, and, after God had permitted unto me many experiments,

      I understood clearly the nature and properties, and the secret potency, imparted by God to minerals and metals.

      Among the mineral substances I found one which exhibited many colours, and proved to be of the greatest efficacy in art. The

      spiritual essence of this substance I extracted, and therewith restored our sick brother, in a few days, to perfect health. For the

      strength of this spirit was so great as to quicken the prostrate spirit of my diseased brother, who, from that day to the day of his

      death, remembered me in his hourly prayers. And his prayers, together with my own diligence, so prevailed with God, that

      there was revealed to me that great secret which God ever conceals from those who are wise in their own conceits.

      Thus have I been wishing to reveal to you in this treatise, as far as may be lawful to me, the Stone of the Ancients, that you,

      too, might possess the knowledge of

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