CHAPTER I.

...deny the cited experiment / that the Sun ☉ The symbol ☉ represents the Sun or the spiritual essence of Gold. is not an essential Fire △ The symbol △ represents the element of Fire.? This was also proven in §. 14, Letter u. with two experiments / namely how the Sun’s light concentrates in Water ▽ The symbol ▽ represents the element of Water. into a terrestrial 🜔 The symbol 🜔 represents the element of Earth or a terrestrial/salt-like substance. oil, and how such an oil can in turn be transformed into Salt; this is well known to the Chemists. Furthermore, all plants original: "Vegetabilia" testify—which are nothing other than the offspring of the Sun, Moon, and the Stars—that this universal Sun ☉ is a Fire △ / as Holy Scripture in Genesis 1 teaches us thoroughly and irrefutably; all these plants can be ignited by a small Fire △ / and reduced by Fire △ into their universal Chaos / leaving nothing behind

Letter Q.

but a small amount of fixed Salt / which, however, by the way of nature original: "per viam naturæ" can easily be made volatile by the experienced / and raised to its first essence original: "ad primum esse suum" / namely to be transformed into the nature and form of its origin original: "in naturam & formam originis suæ" / which is the universal terrestrial 🜔 Sun ☉. But enough of this point, and it is known to those who have traveled a little / that in those lands where drifting sand is most apparent / as in the Netherlands and neighboring areas / there is much peat original: "Turff" / which is nothing other than an effect of the Sun / namely the rays of the Sun settle as dregs original: "fæces" in Water ▽ / and thus give birth to these terrestrial 🜔 earths; although this peat is constantly and diligently dug out / it nevertheless grows back continuously / as is well known in those places; and this is not said of peat alone / but is even true of coal original: "Stein-Kohlen" (though not in all places) / which the unbeliever in the land of Liège original: "Lückerlande," referring to the coal-rich region of Belgium can fully experience / though these coals and their foundation are entirely different from the coal of other countries. Furthermore, the curious In the 17th century, "the curious" referred to scientific researchers and observers of nature. have observed that the Sun concentrates itself in shallow waters (those that stand near drifting sand and have little earth beneath them / and thus cannot easily hide /); when the Water ▽ has undergone putrefaction / and finally dries up / then brownish dregs original: "fæces" remain behind on the ground / which burn like Fire △ / not to mention many other innumerable observations / which powerfully confirm all that has been said / and for the wise, what has been brought forward shall be enough / and we have thus fully proven this point in §. 3. Letter a. and §. 11. Letter k.

§. 20.

We come now to the rocks and cliffs / upon which so many have suffered shipwreck / and yet have not reached their intended goal / namely, the investigation of the true origin and generation of metals and minerals from the foundation of nature. See §. 11. But here we do not wish to tread the path which so many have already walked before us in describing metals and minerals and their origin / but rather follow only the principles cited above and the footpath upon which the Spirit of the Living has led us / assuring ourselves that by this guidance we shall most happily reach the correct port. It has been said before / and the

Letter R.

truth is abundantly known / that no grain of sand can be found / though it be like a speck of dust in the sun / that does not have some spiritual gold or silver within it / as the red masculine Solar or white feminine Lunar seed / where we must also remember what

Letter S.

we have already said above in §. 10. Letter h. and in the entire 16th §. Namely / that just as every planet and all other stars received their own quality and essence in the separation out of the Heavens Hebrew: "Schamajim" at the Creation / and violently draw the heavenly Solar seed to themselves during the day / and specify it according to their received quality / and give it off again at night / letting it down to the Moon / where everything is, as it were, coagulated / and further sunk into the Air / from whence this terrestrial 🜔 Fire △ comes down to us / so every tiniest part original: "pars minutissima" has this whole heavenly essence within itself / and the same condition applies to the smallest and most delicate grain of sand: It is also sufficiently known to the experienced that no metal or mineral is to be found anywhere / whatever name it may have / that does not likewise have something of these spiritual red and white terrestrial 🜔 or Solar and Lunar seeds hidden in its innermost part / from which even Salts, whatever they may be called, are not excluded. Note Well. Indeed, much more and clearer could be said here of this red and white terrestrial 🜔 substance or spiritual gold and silver / if one did not have to fear the mockery of the damned world / yet it shall be brought in here and there in what follows / as much as we are permitted. Meanwhile, the lover of truth will have sufficiently understood our meaning from all that has preceded / and will already know where this spiritual gold and silver / or red and white terrestrial 🜔 substance is to be had and found in further abundance; then it is not to be overlooked that when we speak of the red and white terrestrial 🜔 substance / namely of the Solar and Lunar seed / as in our thesis §. 7. Letter f. / we do not wish to take anything away from the fact that the influences of the Sun, Moon, and Stars are Solar ☉ / but when we call these heavenly influences or seeds the red and white terrestrial 🜔 substance / the man of understanding will judge that all of this is to be understood of them; when these heavenly spiritual essences / Light and Darkness / have become, as it were, bodily in the Virgin Air 🜁 The symbol 🜁 represents Air; "🜁 Virginea" refers to the pure, primordial atmosphere. / or through certain and known instruments from the first essence original: "ex primo esse" / from whence they (namely the drifting sand in its primal state) are further poured out into all creatures and bodies, as said above more than clearly.

§. 21.

Regarding metals / as well as minerals and all other bodies original: "Corporibus" / we must also say this beforehand for very special reasons / that they have come according to their essence original: "secundum esse illorum" from Almighty God as such specified bodies and for the predestined harmonic purpose of the Economy of this Universe original: "ad prædestinatum finem harmonicum Oeconomiæ Universi hujus" / as can be seen especially in the 16th §. / and will also be proven in what follows.

§. 22.

Concerning the texture of metals, we must also, before we go further, speak a little