Chemical Experiments on the Radical Dissolution of Bodies

brilliance and the form of all metals, which
enlightens all bodies and makes them perfect.

This inner salt possesses a coloring,
penetrating, and form-changing power. —
It penetrates all metals, opens them up
radically original: "radical." In alchemy, a "radical" dissolution refers to breaking a substance down to its root essence or primary matter., unites with them inseparably,
and transforms them into another metal-
transforming coloring stone. — Even
diamonds are melted like water by
this salt. — This salt is the true
balsam of sulfur Balsam of sulfur was historically a solution of sulfur in turpentine or fatty oils, but here it refers to a refined, life-giving alchemical principle..

In the center of the metallic ash original: "metallischen Asche." Also known as a calx; the powder left over after a metal has been burned or oxidized.
lies a highly pure salt, like a clear
crystal; after its highest purification,
it becomes very easily fluid; within it lies the
incorruptible capacity to grant all perfection and
all prosperity; this power is neither
consumed by the incinerating fire, nor
dissolved by the coldness of the dissolving water,
as it is animated and moved by its own spirit,
and is in its reborn state. — This salt
possesses a particular constancy and
penetrability within the creatures of the
subterranean realm The "subterranean realm" refers to the mineral and metallic kingdom where stones and ores "grow" within the earth..

Therefore, salt has been held
so sacred by all peoples
and religions.