THE FIVE BOOKS

This book addresses the Great Work of the alchemists as understood by Nicolas Valois, one of the Normans who in the year 1420 achieved the mythical and mysterious Philosopher's Stone. The book explains the matter to prepare the water to extract its essence from a certain substance and finally achieve, after prolonged work, the Philosophers' Stone. The text is a gem translated from the original manuscript, preserving fidelity to its essence, and above all, by an expert alchemist like Mejnour, providing, in footnotes, substantial and generous information to better understand the text. For the rest, this text tells us about philosophical water, which must be water with a fire inside to be able to extract all its virtues from gold, and where to find it, coagulated, in a certain white body...