Reg.lat.1200

Geber The Latinized name of Jabir ibn Hayyan, an 8th-century polymath considered the father of chemistry/alchemy.. And this substance from which
the stone is extracted is possessed by
the poor as well as the rich; and
it is the work of women and the play
of children, and its flower is the stone.
Receive, therefore, in the Name of God, that substance
which is not perfected; for from perfected
things, indeed, nothing can be made, since
the species of perfected things are not
changed from their nature, but rather
are destroyed. For that substance
from which our stone is ex-
tracted, or the matter of the stone, is
utterly imperfect; for
according to the Art The "Art" refers to Alchemy, the human imitation of natural processes. nothing could be made from a complete
imperfection original: "ex cōpleto imperfecto",
the reason being that the Art cannot induce
the primary dispositions of Nature,
but it is a substance intermediate between