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From: glass@panix.com (Robert Scott Martin)
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Subject: Re: Alchemy
Date: 14 Mar 2003 14:36:40 -0500
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In article <ff6b3639.0303140614.e604b2c@posting.google.com>,
Joshua Geller <dclxvi@best.com> wrote:

>If your medicine of metals works, you can go ahead and prepare 
>the Elixir Vitae.
>
>This involves working a pair of human testicles with the Stone.

alt.magick has never made me do a spit take until now. Can't believe this 
is the first time this fundamental requirement of the Work has been laid 
out so baldly.

>I have a matter in a bottle that has been waiting several years for 
>me to have an outbuilding containing a lab that runs to a fume hood,
>and is going to wait an other number of years too.

I know the feeling. I can barely make potash in my current building
without stinking the place up for days.