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Aureum seculum patefactum: oder, Die eröffnete güldene Zeit
This text has not previously been translated into English.
A complete English translation of this work was published in 1982 by the Restoration of Alchemical Manuscripts Society (RAMS). While the work is obscure and does not appear in standard commercial or academic catalogs, the RAMS translation is well-documented in alchemical bibliographies and serves as the primary English version of the 1706 Latin-German text.
The Golden Age Revealed, trans. Restoration of Alchemical Manuscripts Society (RAMS) (1982) [complete]
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Step into the laboratory of the 'Golden Friend of Truth' to witness the unveiling of the Universal Solvent, a substance Alitophilus claims is as 'clear as the sun.' This text provides a rare, practical roadmap for the Great Work, bridging the gap between ancient allegory and a 'self-movement' based physics to reveal the secret of the Philosophers' Stone.
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