Letter to the Gold-Seeking Lovers of Chemistry and Alchemy

Art Art original: "Kunst"; here referring to the Hermetic or Alchemical Art; these will reveal beloved Nature to him.

7. In this Nature, one will find above all else that everything which has been created has a seed, and by means of this seed—to be understood as female and male—it gives birth to its own kind. Furthermore, one finds that everything created received the command from God to multiply according to its species, and that this neither should nor can be otherwise. Holy Scripture and Christ himself testify to this where he says: "Can one gather grapes from thorns?" A reference to Matthew 7:16; the author uses this to argue that alchemical results must follow the natural laws of their "seed" or source material. One part of this is to be understood as propagation, the other as the nature of the species.

8. Although the knowledge of Chaos In alchemy, "Chaos" refers to the unorganized "First Matter" or the state of the elements before they are refined., the separation of the elements, and similar sciences do not teach you how to directly prepare the Philosopher’s Stone original Latin: "Lapidem Philosophorum directe", these preliminary circumstances are nonetheless necessary to know, so that one may thereby reach the understanding of how and from what every being was created, and of what properties it consists—such as how the four qualities The four Aristotelian qualities: hot, cold, moist, and dry. are constituted in every Composite original Latin: "Composito"; a physical body or substance made of combined elements.