A New Chemical Light with Twelve Secret Chemical Tables

PREFACE

of celestial things, likewise the nurse and womb of all growing things (just as we call water the mother, but heaven the father and progenitor of all natural things.) We conclude, therefore, that the Earth is, by reason of its order, the first subject in which the Hermetic Art Hermetic Art The practice of alchemy, named after the legendary figure Hermes Trismegistus works, and the Philosophical Magnet original: Magnetem Philosophicum; a substance believed to have the power to "attract" celestial or spiritual virtues into a physical body by which the aforementioned celestial influences are attracted and incorporated. Since all these things are undoubtedly so, we likewise conclude that the Matter of the Stone original: Materiam Lapidis; the raw material needed to begin the Great Work, no less than the primary matter of metals, participates in both heaven and earth together, and claims a part of its origin for its constitution from the latter as well as the former; yet it is somewhat different from that [primary matter], as we have said, on account of a different respect and end.

However, to bring an end to this general discourse, I believe it will be worthwhile if I set before the eyes of the readers some brief synopsis of this entire booklet in a succinct outline original Greek: diatyposis (a sketch or descriptive outline) or this slender table.