Mineral Stone, or the Highest Medicine (1681) - Page 17

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...out of the light, teaches [one] to recognize the darkness / and to reject the evil in favor of the good.
What is required, then, for the beginning of this Spirit original: "Gestes," an archaic spelling of Geistes of Mercury Mercury: in alchemy, one of the three primary principles (Tria Prima), representing the spirit or volatile essence of a substance? It is unnecessary for you to know this, because such knowledge can bring you no help nor profit; only understand this: that its beginning is supernatural, granted from the heavenly, the sidereal referring to the influence of the stars, and the elemental realms since the start of the first creation, so that it might further enter into an earthly being. But because this is necessary—as has been made known to you—leave the heavenly things to the soul and grasp them through faith; leave the sidereal alone as well, because such sidereal impressions original: "Impressiones"; the invisible influences or "stamps" left by celestial bodies are invisible and incomprehensible. The elements original: "Elementa" have already fully brought the Spirit original: "Spiritum" into the world through nourishment original: "nutrimentum"; therefore, do not trouble yourself with them, since man can make no elements, but the Creator alone. Stay instead with your prepared Spirit, which is already formal and informal, comprehensible and incomprehensible, and yet is visibly manifested before you. Thus you have enough of the prime matter original: "primam materiam"; the base starting material for the Alchemical Great Work from which all metals and minerals original: "Minera" have grown. And it is a single thing and such a matter original: "Materia" which unites with the sulfur original: "Schwebel," an archaic spelling of Schwefel of the following chapter, and enters into a coagulation the process of a liquid becoming solid with the salt of the fifth chapter, so that a body is formed from it, and a perfect medicine original: "Artzeney und Medicin" for all metals—not only to give birth [to them] at their beginning in the earth: