ON MERCURY

...which they themselves made, namely the Philosopher’s Stone original: "lapidem Philosophorum." or the Physical Tincture Tinctura Physica: A liquid form of the Philosopher's Stone, believed to have the power to "tinge" or transform base metals and heal the human body.. While we seek that Stone, we find other things; and if human procreation were not so common, and if Nature did not maintain its own law in that matter, we would by now have nearly gone astray.

But to return to the purpose: I promised in this first Treatise to explain Nature, lest a vain imagination deflect us from the simple, true way.

I say, therefore, that NATURE is one, true, simple, and whole in its being, which God made before the ages and enclosed a spirit within it. Know, however, that the Limit of Nature is God, who is also the principle of Nature, since no beginning is finished except in that in which it begins This reflects the Hermetic idea of the Ouroboros (the snake eating its tail), where the end of a process returns to its divine source.. I have said it is only one, through which God does all things—not because God would not know how to work without it (since He Himself made Nature and is omnipotent), but because it pleased Him so, and so He did.

All things proceed from that one Nature, nor is there anything in the world outside of Nature. And although sometimes failures original: "abortus." In this context, it refers to "monstrosities" or unsuccessful natural developments. occur, this is not the fault of Nature, but rather the fault of the craftsman artifex: The alchemist or "artist" who attempts to mimic or accelerate natural processes in the lab. or of the place. This Nature is divided into places...