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On Sulphur · Passage 17
Source reference
- Latin witness
- 1616 · sequence pages 74
Latin
Alchimista interrogans ait: Revertimini aliquando in illa corpora?
Animae: Non in tam polluta, sed quando purgabuntur et hoc flumen exsiccabitur per calorem solis, et provincia haec saepius per aerem examinata fuerit.
Alchimista: Interim quid facietis?
Animae: Hic supra flumen volitabimus donec istae nebulae et tempestates cessent.
English
Alchemist: Will you ever return to those bodies?
Souls: Not while they are so polluted. But we shall when they are purified, this river has been dried by the sun's heat, and this region has often been tested through air.
Alchemist: What will you do meanwhile?
Souls: We shall fly above the river until these mists and storms cease.
Socrates
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The complete supplied Latin–English edition of the Twelve Treatises, Epilogue, Enigma, Parable, Dialogue of Mercury and Treatise of Sulphur, with original preliminaries, John French’s historical English address and its separately labelled modernisation, 101 annotations and the complete study apparatus.
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The Twelve Treatises and their concluding texts follow the selected 1606 Herzog August Bibliothek witness. The Dialogue uses the 1607 Cologne printing; the author’s preface and Alsted epigram use Frankfurt 1611. Sulphur uses the 1616 Munich and Rome witnesses. John French’s 1650 address is separately identified as historical English reception.
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