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Rubaphilos Salfluere: Elemental Chaos, Initiation, & The Stone

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The Three Alchemical Principles

Alchemists refer to the three alchemical principles. The word used to describe them is a principle with a p l e at the end, a and that concept was really discussed in a time for the english language had a standard way of spelling words where people basically spell words according to a commonly agreed phonetic plan a. One of the words with a p at the end refers to ideas or concepts which are primary. But we also have principle, p a l, which means foremost, or before anything else. And those first three conditions which come out of the er chaos, they are not concepts which are foremost, p l e, they are conditions which come before anything other.

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