Centrum Naturae Concentratum

On returning after four days, I learned that, when the wedding was over that evening, Sebastian had been taken by the students to Strauch’s house on the market for night drinking. Overcome by drink, he was put to bed. After two hours they cut his throat with a knife and threw his dead body over the walls into the town ditch. This was discovered only after two years, when a maid was looking for a lost child. Four weeks after the deed they all scattered into the world. When I opened the heated room, I found a hidden little book bound in twenty-fourmo. In it I found the manipulations, especially the universal work and both particular works proceeding from the same source. But the medicine and tincture were gone. I took the money he had left and travelled with it to Bohemia, Moravia, Austria, Styria, and Italy, then back through Switzerland and Swabia, as far as the money lasted.