The Birth of a New Moon

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With thanks to Jane-Marie Harrison and Paul Harrison, Bronwen Buckley, Jack from Freedom Independent Service, Alverda Orlando, and Mark Jacobs from Intertec Publishing.

And particular gratitude for the clever hands and eyes of Ken Orrett and Nathanael King, who brought to life the vision of Anne Waverly and Jason Delgado.

Section headings are taken from The Compound of Alchymie by Sir George Ripley, collected in Theatrum Chemicum Brittanicum by Elias Ashmole in 1652 (reprinted in a facsimile edition by Kessinger Publishing Co., Kila, Montana, 1991). Some of the archaic spelling has been modernized by the current author.

Section definitions are from Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.

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Praeparatio

prepare (vb) The action or process of making something

ready for use or of getting ready for some occasion,

test, or duty.

O Power, O Wisdom, O Goodness inexplicable;

Support me, Teach me, and be my Governor,

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