Symbols, 40, Quintessence and Friedman's "a priori" hypothesis

[bi3mw]

Part of my analysis includes the balneological section as primarily concerned with the distillation of quintessence.  I arrived at this independently, but discovered this was Brumbaugh's opinion in the 70's too, though he doesn't explain how he came to this conclusion.

I do not have an answer to your question, but I would like to state that I agree with your above thesis. In the thread " Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS" from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. was discussed about Johannes de Rupescissa and the topic "Quintessence" ( not coherent, but the posts can be found easily ).