The Sophic Nucleus: An Interpretation of the Tincture of the Physicists of Paracelsus

...and finally one thing is made from it again. From all of which the truth and foundation of this our Art original: "Kunſt"; the practice of alchemy, often called the "Sacred Art." is to be seen; since the Philosophers, as Bernhardus Bernard of Trevisan, an influential 15th-century alchemist. says, can speak no truth except in one thing: For the truth consists in those things in which no contradiction or inequality is found.

And all false Chemists original: "Chemiſten"; here used pejoratively to describe "puffers" or practitioners who used complex, multi-ingredient recipes instead of the single "natural" root. could easily recognize their error from this, just as they may be recognized and judged original: "iudicirt"; from the Latin iudicare. from this single point, along with all their deceit and false delusions.

And indeed, because God Almighty Himself created the entire great world—all celestial, animal, vegetable, and mineral original: "coeleſtiſche / animaliſche / vegetabiliſche vnd mineraliſche"; the four traditional categories of existence in Renaissance natural philosophy. natures—out of a single thing and a single initial Root original: "Wurzel"; the prima materia or first matter from which all things grow., how should man be wiser than God? Why should he need more than a single piece for this Work—which, no less than the great world above, encompasses within itself the seed and property of all creatures? For since this Art imitates Nature, the Matter original: "Matery"; the physical substance being transformed. of the Art is also a Matter of Nature.