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Card #c315IR // #c315Verbatim excerpt
The Arcanum describes at considerable length, and with obvious good faith, the procedure of one school of Alchymists in the search for the secret of the Stone Philosophical, and it formulates the stages of the work so that he or she who can read may run.

— Source: Hermetic Arcanum (Jean d'Espagnet (Collectanea Hermetica Vol. I))

[Use when]

When a manual is dense for gatekeeping, not for padding.

[Why it matters]

Stages are written for the literate initiate — literacy is the speed limit, not the map's length.

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