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- Let my friend know that no impure or spotted things are useful for our purpose. For there is nothing in their leprous nature capable of advancing the interests of our Art There is much more likelihood of that which is in itself good being spoiled by that which is impure.
- In the houses of the great are found various kinds of drink, of which scarcely two are exactly like each other in odour, colour, or taste. For they are prepared in a great variety of different ways.
- By means of water fire may be extinguished, and utterly quenched. If much water be poured upon a little fire, the fire is overcome, and compelled to yield up the victory to the water.
- All flesh that is derived from the earth, must be decomposed and again reduced to earth; then the earthy salt produces a new generation by celestial resuscitation.
The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine is a widely reproduced alchemical book attributed to Valentine, first published in 1599 by Johann Thölde. It contains two parts, the second of which houses the twelve keys.
The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine is a widely reproduced alchemical book attributed to Basil Valentine. It was first published in 1599 by Johann Thölde who is likely the book's true author. It is presented as a sequence of alchemical operations encoded allegorically in words, to which images have been added.
The 'Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine' is recognised as one of the most important and influential of alchemical works. It was first published in 1599 as a text only piece but achieved its widest distribution as part of a compendium the Tripus Aureus (Golden Tripod) edited by Michael Maier and published by Lucas Jennis at Frankfurt in 1618.
Nov 19, 2020 · The identity of Basil Valentine is unknown and it appears that the writings. The 'Twelve Keys' appears to have first been published in 'Ein kurtz summarischerTractat, von dem grossen Stein der Uralten...', Eisleben, 1599, and a number...
The 'twelve keys' is a famous work by the Basil Valentine, supposed to have been a Bendictine Monk-Adept of the 15th century. The Basil Valentine writings, however, emerge in the last decade of the 16th century.
12 Keys of Basil Valentine. This work was first published in Ein kurtz summarischer Tractat, von dem grossen Stein der Uralten..., Eisleben, 1599 without illustrations and again at Leipzig in 1602 with some woodcuts of the 12 'keys'.
