Discourse on Curious Matters

excellence, property, and effect of the incomparable Universal Tincture Universal Tincture: Also known as the Philosopher's Stone, this was the supreme goal of alchemy, believed to be a "universal medicine" for both the human body and "sick" (base) metals, as being the ultimate goal of all philosophers original: Philosophorum and the earthly mystery, wherein the intellect could perceive the spiritual. Just as all philosophers also assured and unanimously confessed of this: that into this jewel is implanted the power not only to take away bodily and natural illnesses, but also to diminish the wretched worry of sustenance, to drive away sadness, to make man joyful, and to rejuvenate his strength; but even that it has the property to lead the intellect toward divine magic original: göttlichen Magia—referring to a sacred, natural wisdom or the understanding of God's workings in nature, rather than common sorcery, so that a reborn person might attain a wondrous knowledge of the Triune original: Drey-einigen—referring to the Holy Trinity Creator and Sustainer of all things, experience extraordinary power, and finally be certain that one day, according to the Highest’s decree, everything shall be renewed, and the lost glory of man—which Christ has regained—may follow; for in this mirror of nature original: Speculo naturæ is found a true pattern of all this, and the nature of a spiritual body and a bodily