Preface.

bears fruits of health and wealth. Since we have said that it is the seed of nature, the astral seed The "Astral Seed" refers to the celestial influence or life-force believed by alchemists to descend from the stars and animate physical matter., we also say that it is the Water of the Philosophers, with which they wash and purify the Virgin Earth In alchemy, "Virgin Earth" refers to the pure, primordial matter that has not yet been worked upon; it is the "soil" in which the alchemical seed is planted. from its combustible impurities and dregs. For this reason, this water is also no water, but a fire, which consumes the impurity and transforms it into an Essence original: "Essentiam"; in this context, it refers to the purest, most concentrated form of a substance., which nothing else in the world is able to do.

Since we have already mentioned that the principles, or seeds of nature, as the essential original: "Essentialischen" essences, were formed and planted into nature by God, yet the natural man—the fleshly and earthly Adam, who lives under sin and the curse—understands nothing of the things that are of the Spirit of God, our efforts will be in vain for many, and must yield to the all-too-powerful supremacy of criticism. As one sees then, since so many magnificent treatises original: "Tractate" have become known through print, yet