The Child-Bed of the Philosopher's Stone

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...that you do not seek it in common metals; for you have sufficient reason to believe that it is not living there, considering that they are dead because they have been torn away from their natural minera original: "Minera"; referring to the "ore" or the living womb in the earth where minerals grow.. The Cosmopolite A famous alchemist, likely Michael Sendivogius (1566–1636), known for his "New Chemical Light." reminds you of this out of love, when he says in his fourth treatise:

Hold this as a certain rule, that you do not seek this point of nature (which is the multiplying seed) in the common metals; for it is not there, because they are—he says—dead, but ours are living, and these are the ones you must take.

I assure you furthermore, where he tells you that the seed you need is almost a living soul, which is not found in dead things; for this reason he afterwards commands you to take the living man and join him together with the living woman. For you must know that the metals of the Sages The "Metals of the Wise" are not the literal metals found in a mine, but purified spiritual or chemical principles. are full of life and are all contained within a single subject original: "Subjecto"; the underlying matter or vessel of the work., as the Abbot Synesius Likely referring to a pseudo-epigraphical alchemical text attributed to Synesius of Cyrene. clearly informs you when he says in express words:

Note in conclusion that our gold and silver are much nobler than the common ones, seeing as ours are living in one and the same subject, and the common ones are dead.

Do not, therefore, wallow in the center original: "Centro" of common metals and minerals to find a living root therein, for it is not living there; and hold it as an infallible rule that whenever the philosophers speak of taking metals as the basic rule of the work, one does not [take] the