An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King
Eirenaeus Philalethes
The most widely read practical alchemical treatise of the seventeenth century, written by an anonymous adept who claimed to have finished the work at twenty three. Isaac Newton studied and annotated it closely.
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