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to you, because one part of this thing converts a thousand parts of R into
most pure Q. Therefore let these things which have been spoken suffice
you, for this Magistery. But yet there remain certain things, without
which the Magistery cannot be effected, and it is convenient for you to
know, that the intention of man seeking after this divine and pure
science, ought to imagine it to be nothing else, but the gift of the most
great and highest God ; who reveals it to his servants, whose name be
blessed for ever. But (O King) be you now attentive, that you may hear
and understand those things which I shall now speak unto you.
King Calid : Begin when you will, for I will hearken diligently unto you.
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