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

[found among all] creatures This completes the word "creatur-geschöpffen" from the previous page, meaning "creatures." which subdues, captures, overwhelms, and rules over humans as well as all others, none excluded. This swift power of his is confirmed by Hermes Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Hellenistic figure regarded as the father of alchemy., who says: "This Matter original: "Materi"; the primordial substance or "First Matter" used in the alchemical Great Work. is the strongest power of all strength." This is a paraphrase of a line from the famous Emerald Tablet, a foundational alchemical text.

This is also experienced by those who know this Lion and understand how to use it upon other creatures through proper preparation original: "præparation"; the laboratory process of refining or altering a substance.. There, one sees how this thing captures, subdues, destroys, kills, and brings all other creatures out of their first form into another state of being; so that, as previously mentioned, no creature in all of creation is excluded that is not subject and obedient to this one thing, and must also tremble before its roar. As Hermes further says: "It overcomes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid body."

For these reasons, it is also called a Governor original: "Gubernator"; a Latin term for a pilot, ruler, or director. by Dionysius Zacharias Denis Zachaire (c. 1510–1556), a French alchemist known for his autobiographical accounts of the search for the Philosopher's Stone. and a King by Bernhard Bernard of Trevisan (1406–1490), an Italian alchemist whose writings emphasized the "King" as a symbol for the completed Stone., with these words: that there is nothing that can so well endure and suffer rain, wind, labor, heat, and cold—that is, all the elements—