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The Alkahest

CHAPTER VI
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It governs religions, sciences, and laws.
"'It was at this point,' he went on, 'that poverty put an end to my researches.

You were the pupil of Lavoisier, you are rich, and master of your own time, I will therefore tell you my conjectures.

Listen to the conclusions my personal experiments have led me to foresee.

The PRIME MATTER must be the common principle in the three gases and in carbon.
The MEDIUM must be the principle common to negative and positive electricity.

Proceed to the discovery of the proofs that will establish those two truths; you will then find the explanation of all phenomenal existence.
"'Oh, monsieur!' he cried, striking his brow, 'when I know that I carry here the last word of Creation, when intuitively I perceive the Unconditioned, is it LIVING to be dragged hither and thither in the ruck of men who fly at each other's throats at the word of command without knowing what they are doing?
My actual life is an inverted dream.


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