1. Open... sesame!

2. Open Sesame!

3. Open, Sesame.

4. Open Sesame.

5. The Alchemic method of experiment itself was essentially false because it arose from the a priori certainty that “truth”—the key to the transformation of metals into gold or silver—was already given from above and that it could be revealed by magic ritual and mystical revelation as easily as “Open, sesame!”