"I have now a more or less correct translation of the sheets you left with me, a copy of which is at your disposal.

Here it is:--'_The formula is now enunciated and proved.

The secret which has defied the sages of the world since the ages of twilight, has yielded itself to me, the nineteenth seeker after the truth in one direct line.
One slight detail alone baffles me.

So far as I have gone at present, the constituent parts, containing always the same elements and producing, therefore, the same effect, appear in variable dimensions or potencies, for reasons which at present elude me.

Of my formula there is no longer any doubt.