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ALPHIDIUS Alphidius is a name often given to an early Arabic alchemical author cited in medieval European texts., one of the old Philosophers, said:
“Every one who does not care for the trouble of obtaining the Philosopher’s Stone The legendary "Lapis Philosophorum," the ultimate goal of alchemy, believed to be capable of transmuting lead into gold and curing all illnesses., will do better in making no enquiries at all than only useless ones.”
The same also says RHASES Rhases (c. 865–925 AD), also known as al-Razi, was a Persian physician and chemist whose works were highly influential in the medieval West., in his book “LIGHT OF LIGHTS” original Latin: "Lumen Luminum.":
“Let it be said then to all, I hereby admonish them most earnestly, that none be so foolhardy to presume to understand the unknown intermixture of the elements,”
for as ROSINUS Rosinus is the Latinized name for Zosimos of Panopolis, a Greco-Egyptian alchemist from the late 3rd century AD. says:
“All who engage in this Art, and are wanting the knowledge and perception of things, which the Philosophers have described in their books, are erring immensely; for the Philosophers have founded this art in a natural beginning, but of a very hidden operation.”
Though it is evident that all corporeal things originate in and are maintained and exist of the Earth, according to Time and the Influence of the Stars and Planets, such as: Sun, Moon and the others, together with the four qualities of the elements The classical elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) were defined by their qualities: hot, cold, moist, and dry., which are without intermission moving and working therein, thereby creating every growing and procreating thing in its individual form, sex and substance, as first created at the Beginning by God, the Creator. Consequently, all metals originate in the earth of a special and peculiar...