A New Chemical Light with Twelve Secret Chemical Tables

PREFACE.

the primary principle of this [stone], is to be drawn forth.

For since Mother Nature original: Natura parens generates and multiplies all things in two ways, namely through the male and the female, or through the active and the passive: therefore it is necessary that in this matter Art The practice of alchemy imitates Nature. And so, the active principle or form of this Art will be the aforementioned seed of gold original: semen auri, which, for its own multiplication, assimilates the matter to itself.

Truly, the role of the passive and of the matter—which multiplies and exalts the tincture of the ferment original: tincturam fermenti; the alchemical agent that "leavens" or transforms base metals into gold—will be performed by that Mercury which the Philosophers The historic term for alchemists and natural scientists called "their own." Nor does it stand in the way that the Philosophers sometimes use these names interchangeably.

For whatever it is that acts in the beginning, that same thing must be acted upon in the end, and vice-versa. Moreover, although each may be of a different sex, common Nature teaches that they must be of the same origin; through which we see every individual Being rejoice and delight in its own nature, and thereby be preserved and multiplied. For nature overcomes nature, receives nature, and retains nature. original: Natura enim naturam vincit, recipit ac retinet; a foundational axiom of alchemy attributed to Pseudo-Democritus, suggesting that only substances of a similar nature can transform one another.