alliance with a foreign power destined to yield some beneficial 

 and some evil results. Finally Kelley announced that the spirit 

 Zadkiel wished to communicate directly with his Majesty, 

 and the Emperor replacing Dee at the writing table, took 

 down the following recipe for the Philosophers' stone: 



"Take common Audcal, purge it and work it by Rlodnr of four 

 divers digestions, continuing the last digestion for fourteen days 

 in one and a swift proportion, until it be Dlafod fixed, a most 

 red and luminous body, the Image of Resurrection. Take also 

 Lulo of red Roxtan and work him through the four fiery degrees 

 until thou hast his Audcal and there gather him. . . 

 So, doth it become Darr, the thing you ask for; a holy, most 

 glorious and dignified Dlafod. But watch well and gather him 

 so at the highest, for in one hour he descendeth or ascendeth from 

 the purpose. Take hold." 



Doctor Dee, who had much experience in the language of 

 spirits, explained the obscure words thus : Audcal signifies 

 gold, the prima materia in this operation; Dlafod represents 

 sulfur, the essential component ; Lulo means tartar and 

 Roxtan means wine, so the phrase refers to philosophical 

 cream-of-tartar. Darr, in the angelic tongue, is the true name 

 of the stone. 



In commemoration of this extraordinary seance, Rudolph 

 graciously presented to Dee a fragment of so-called ''immortal 

 paper," paper that had been rendered indestructible by im- 

 mersion in the water of a mineral spring in Silesia. The 

 paper thus acquired properties that protected it from decay 

 as well as from attacks of moths and worms. It had been 

 given to the Emperor by George Kretschmar, a resident of 

 Gold Alley, who was rewarded by a patent of nobility. 



The Emperor, the English savant and his companion in 

 charlatanism, probably all felt that: 



.... "The pleasure is as great 

 Of being cheated, as to cheat 



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