A New Light of Alchemy

...possible. For in any body there is a center, and a location or point for the seed or sperm, and it is always the 1/8200 part, even in a grain of wheat itself, and this cannot be otherwise: For the whole grain or body is not turned into seed, but there is only a certain necessary spark original: "scintilla." Alchemists often described the life-force or "First Matter" as a divine or celestial spark hidden within dense physical matter. in the body, which is guarded by the rest of its body from all excessive heat and cold, etc.

If you have ears and senses, pay attention here and you will be safe—not only from those who are ignorant of the location of the sperm and strive to reduce the whole grain into seed, but also from all those who occupy themselves with the vain dissolution of metals Early chemists often failed because they tried to dissolve entire bars of metal into liquid, thinking the whole mass was "seed," rather than extracting the specific "mercurial" essence. and wish to dissolve metals entirely, so that afterwards, from their mutual mixing, they might create a new metal.

But these people, if they were to consider the process of Nature, would see that the matter is far different; for no metal is so pure that it does not also have its impurities, though one may have fewer or more than another. But you, friendly reader, will first observe the point of Nature Naturae punctum: the mathematical and metaphysical center of a substance where its creative power resides, as stated above, and you will have enough; but