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TWELVE KEYS
BY
BASIL VALENTINE
1599
Twelve Keys By Basil Valentine.
This edition was created and published by Global Grey
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C
ONTENTS
The Preface Of Basilius Valentinus, The Benedictine, Concerning The
Great Stone Of The Ancient Sages
The Tract Of Basilius Valentinus, The Benedictine, Concerning The Great
Stone Of The Ancient Sages
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 Of The Ancient Sages
Now Follows Concerning Sulphur
Now I Will Also Give My Opinion Respecting The Salt Of The Sages
Thanks Be To God
Postscript
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ASILIUS
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ALENTINUS
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ENEDICTINE
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ONCERNING
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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

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