Re: VMs: RE: repetitions repetitions

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

At 09:23 13/08/2004 -0400, John Grove wrote:
>         On another note, the following couldn't be suggesting the VMS - 
> could it?

It certainly could... :-)

>         "A cipher manuscript, by Friar Bacon, is now being investigated 
> in America
> with a view to decoding it, and perhaps of getting at the truth of gold
> evolution. One would imagine it to be almost certain, however, that Bacon
> omits the names of his ingredients, or else supplies false names, as do
> other writers. There are many ciphers in alchemic literature which have been
> discovered such names as vitriolum, antimony, saturn (lead), stannum (tin),
> etc. each of which is condemned as an ingredient by a consensus of writers
> of repute. Doubtless, they are interpolated to distract the attention of the
> student from the name of their "proxima materia", which name they have
> mentioned openly and in the vulgar tongue." source:
> http://www.alchemywebsite.com/counselp.html

Author's name (at the end of the preface) is:-

        SAX ROHMER
        BRUTON STREET.
        FEB. 5th, 1923

Sax Rohmer (author of Dr Fu Manchu etc) was born Arthur Henry Ward in 
Birmingham of Irish parents...
        http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rohmer.htm

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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