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The Book of Lambspring, A Noble Ancient Philosopher,
Concerning the Philosophical Stone;
Rendered into Latin Verse by
Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas,
Doctor of Medicine,
a zealous Student of this Art.

Preface - I am called Lambspring, born of a Noble Family.
Figure 1 - Be warned and understand truly that two fishes are swimming in our sea.
Figure 2 - Here you straightway behold a black beast in the forest.
Figure 3 - Hear without terror that in the forest are hidden a deer and an unicorn.
Figure 4 - Here you behold a great marvel - two lions are joined into one.
Figure 5 - A wolf and a dog are in one house, and are afterwards changed into one.
Figure 6 - This surely is a great miracle and without any deception - that in a venomous dragon there should be the great medicine.
Figure 7 - We hear two birds in the forest, yet we must understand them to be only one.
Figure 8 - Here are two birds, great and strong - the body and spirit; one devours the other.
Figure 9 - Thus you may know that the Tincture has truly attained the first degree.
Figure 10 - A salamander lives in the fire, which imparts to it a most glorious hue.
Figure 11 - The father and the son have linked their hands with those of the guide: know that the three are body, soul, and spirit.
Figure 12 - Another mountain of India lies in the vessel, which the spirit and the soul - that is, the son and the guide - have climbed.
Figure 13 - Here the father devours the son; the soul and spirit flow forth from the body.
Figure 14 - Here the father sweats profusely, while oil and the true tincture of the sages flow forth from him.
Figure 15 - Here father and son are joined in one so to remain for ever.




The text and images on these pages is by kind permission of
Levity,
to whom i am deeply indebted.



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