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The water will bring forth [new life] by means ofof the fire original: "pariet aqua mediante igne", which [water] was previously in its body, that is, the earth.

Albertus Magnus A 13th-century scholar and bishop whose writings on the natural sciences and minerals made him a legendary authority in the alchemical tradition., in the second book of On Generation, chapter 7, says thus: "Place is the principle of generation, and the place generates that which is placed within it through the properties of heaven original: "coeli"; referring to the celestial spheres and their astrological influence on earthly matter., because these properties flow from the eight roots of the stars, and there the elemental and celestial virtues virtues | In medieval science, "virtues" (virtutes) are the inherent powers or spiritual qualities that allow a substance to act upon another. perform their work within natural vessels original: "vasis naturalibus"; such as the earth's crust or the womb..

They do this same thing within artificial vessels original: "vasis artificialibus"; the man-made glass flasks and tools of the alchemist.. If the artificial vessels are well-formed in the manner of...