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The nature is pleased to nature
The nature overcomes the nature
The Nature dominated nature.

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Pliny tells us that Demokritos was instructed in magic by Ostanes the Mede.

Ostanes, the Mede, was one of the celebrated early alchemists. Several writers have recorded for us the existence of a book called The Book of the Divine Prescriptions, which seems to have been the most famous writing of these Persian sages.

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