The Secret Work of the Hermetic Philosophy

11As for that clear water which many have sought and few have found, yet which is available and of service to everyone and forms the basis of the philosophical work, an anonymous Polish nobleman, no less distinguished in learning than in intelligence, has spoken of it at sufficient length and with great ingenuity in his New Chemical Light, its Parable and Enigma, and also in his Treatise on Sulphur. His name was nevertheless disclosed by a double anagram. Indeed, he has explained everything concerning this water so clearly that anyone still wanting more could never be satisfied.