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of the stone, he says. And from the superior 3. so that which is in the inferior original: "sic quod est inferius" - a core tenet of the Emerald Tablet: "As above, so below." first, because by this the stone is divided into two principal parts through the mastery The "magisterium" or the alchemical process, namely, into a superior part which ascends upwards, and into an inferior part which remains fixed and settled. And in this [latter] part are the things to be perfected, as GEBER Referring to Jabir ibn Hayyan, the famous 8th-century Islamic alchemist says; and therefore he says that which is in the superior shall become that which is in the inferior. He falls? because in this division of the author for penetrating the worldly things of the one through the stone, which now for the time of the whole [work] is called the gift and the consummation. And through the superior is the soul, which vivifies the whole stone and enters into it; in another? but it is separated and celebrated [in] the mortification? of the stone, many worldly things are penetrated. Thus all things from one were by the meditation of the one; namely, he gives an example saying: thus all things [were] a universal mass in a confused globe. Thus the confused mass by the meditation of the one, namely, it is necessary while and just as there was one thing, all things [arose] from this thing; namely, that all things were in nature, that is, they went out from this confused mass by one adaptation, namely, by the sole command of God for the world. Make the stone, that is, it is born and issuing from one confused mass, at the time holding the golden hour, which mass was created by God. And by his sole world-command, the stone is born in nature. And so that which is born [is] one final [thing]. It is generated more by the sun [and] the moon. But Artificially, with nature mediating, the sun is generated by the sun with a multiplier in the root of the stone produced. By God it follows: its father is the Sun, its mother is the Moon A famous allegorical description of the chemical components: the Sun represents Gold/Sulfur, and the Moon represents Silver/Mercury; namely, through the rule of natural generation, because the smoke's suitable receptacle is with that which ascends and then [goes] within to the father, that is, by Artificial guidance. It is necessary that the sun has its smoke, which is then its suitable receptacle, and it produces a response with a certain fullness to the Autumn and others?.