Collection of Alchemical Treatises

their historical books. And furthermore,
Morien Morienus, a legendary 7th-century alchemist and hermit of Rome who taught the art to King Khalid ibn Yazid. says that throughout the universal
world it was called "gold of the Romans"
because it was better than
that of the mines, because it
is more dignified by natural purification
and decoction The process of heating or boiling a substance to extract its essence. than that which is
within the terrestrial mines.
One could make an argument to me
that those who do not know the
Trinity, such as Turks, Chaldeans,
Moors, and Tartars, have possessed it, and still do,
as I have seen with some. I
respond that those people seek
Virtue, and live according to the law of
nature; and God does not wish for a
good deed to go unrewarded, and He
contents them with natural things.
And therefore, in this blessed
science and art, let no one think
to succeed who does not first
have the love of God, charity, and knowledge,
and patience as his instruments, and
who does not have the knowledge of the
nature of all the seven metals The seven metals of antiquity: gold, silver, mercury, copper, iron, tin, and lead.

as did first
Hermes Trismegistus The "Thrice-Great Hermes," a legendary Hellenistic figure often credited as the founder of alchemy. who found
after the Deluge the seven liberal arts
carved into marble stones in the
Valley of Hebron, where Adam was placed
when God cast him out of the
earthly paradise. And on these seven stones
were carved the seven liberal arts
by the sages before the
Deluge, out of pity for the survivors.
And for this reason, the aforementioned Hermes is called
by modern and ancient philosophers
"Trismegistus"; because he knew
all the triple philosophy: animal,
vegetable, and mineral, as one
reads in the books of memorable deeds
and in the books of ancient histories
and in the Imperial Book, and in
the exposition of Labetis Likely a reference to a biblical commentator or a corruption of a name like "Abbatis." on the
Bible, and in several other
books. And since then, Aros,
King of Arabia, possessed it, who wrote of it to the
King of Niphie; and Platonice,
and Rebecca, and Mandera, Solomon,
Ambagada, Philip of Macedon,
and infinite others, both ancient