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The VITRIOL inscription

VISITA INTERIORA TERRAE RECTIFICANDO INVENIES OCCULTUM LAPIDEM; VITRIOL, VISITA INTERIORA TERRAE RECTIFICANDO INVENIES OCCULTUM LAPIDEM, INTERIORA, RECTIFICANDO, OCCULTUM LAPIDEM

The seven-word Latin inscription on the historical engraving yields VITRIOL from its initials.

From the book

Centrum Naturae Concentratum

Attributed to Ali Puli · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
visit the inward parts of the earth, by rectifying find the hidden stone, VITRIOL acrostic, VITRIOL inscription.

Meaning

The seven-word Latin inscription on the historical engraving yields VITRIOL from its initials. The source’s prose interprets the words in the circle as the matter’s proper name, vitriol. The inscription is visual evidence supplied by the edition’s figure and verified against its figure guide and note n92; it is not an exact phrase from the German passage 14 transcription. No extra ending words for VITRIOLUM occur in this engraving. The acrostic explains a naming claim rather than proving a modern chemical identity. Interiora names the inward parts; rectificando means by rectifying; occultum lapidem is the hidden stone to be found. These are grammatical and lexical explanations, not practical instructions.

Places to read

  1. The Last Testament of a Father to His Beloved Son · Passage 14German“Die Worte im Circkel” The German prose discusses the inscription without transcribing all its words.