Reg.lat.1200

in turn. Pertius original: "Pertius," possibly a reference to a specific alchemical authority or a misspelling of "per se." in amalgamation original: "amalg."
says, among the excellent sayings
of Arnald Arnald of Villanova.:

From these many mercuries, therefore,
one mercury is drawn out, which
the Philosophers original: "Phī," short for "Philosophi." seek, having within itself
the four elements and the four
colors; from this quicksilver
argentum vivum | mercury, the "living silver" is taken, and especially
for the Philosophers' Stone. For the
better quicksilver—whether
mineral, vegetable,
or animal—is that which
is golden and clear, and such
quicksilver is attumen original: "attumen," a term in medieval alchemy often referring to a refined, spiritualized, or "fixed" state of mercury, or sometimes associated with substances like orpiment.;
Thus for our stone, [it is said] that

its color is like the wind in
its belly, as Hermes says. A famous quote from the "Emerald Tablet" of Hermes Trismegistus, describing the birth of the "One Thing."