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Our medicine is a composition of
nature alone.
An alchemical illustration depicting two female figures representing the sun and moon. On the left, a figure with long hair holds a radiant sun symbol. On the right, a figure wearing a crown holds a crescent moon symbol. Between them sits a large glass alchemical vessel (cucurbit) containing a small human figure, representing the "Philosophical Child" or homunculus. The illustration is framed by decorative scrolls containing text.
Behold,
I come to
speak most plainly? original: "parlaruissima"; likely a superlative of speaking or making clear
to conceive a
child without equal
in the world, who shall be born
in two mountains at the
beginning of two
greedy licks original: "auari lecchi"; an obscure phrase, possibly referring to the way substances "consume" or "lick up" one another in a crucible, or a corruption of a term for streams or veins of ore.
There are two stones of the Wise pietre de Saui: The "Stones of the Sages," referring to the white and red tinctures that are found
in brackish waters, and on the banks of rivers,
and in all mountains, and in the clefts of demons original: "spalte de demonij"; likely referring to deep, subterranean fissures where minerals were thought to be guarded by spirits,
and in the sought-after dregs?, of which one is white, and
the other is red, just as the male is with the female,
and with these companions, wisdom arises.
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