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A New Light of Alchemy
Michael Sendivogius · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- heavenly water
Meaning
Phrase.
The phrase is a normalized combination of the words printed as aqua est coelestis. This special water opens metallic pores and is described as not wetting hands, unlike common water and almost rain-water. The selected 1606 almost must not be silently changed to truly. These predicates are deliberately enigmatic; they do not identify an ordinary source of safe water or a chemically specified solvent.
Places to read
- Treatise X · Passage 2Latinaqua est coelestis, non madefaciens manus.