RAYMOND LULL

...[bind]ing of the temperament, with which everything is possible and without which there is nothing. Neutrality, however, contains the middle point between the aforementioned parts; it is called by another name the "bond" of these extremities—namely, of balance original: "temperamenti" and imbalance original: "intemperamenti". In other contexts, it is described as the middle disposition between two contraries.

CHAPTER II.

And therefore you must observe that true temperament is the natural disposition of perfect bodies In alchemy, "perfect bodies" usually refers to gold and silver, which were believed to have achieved a flawless elemental balance, through which natural actions are brought to completion in the perfection of the medicine medicina: the Elixir or Philosopher's Stone, capable of "healing" base metals into gold. In this state, actions are perfected without any other intermediary, as they permeate through the whole; because of this, it must be nature’s disposition regarding the quality of all bodies, and not merely of the action. For if the medicinal body is not well-tempered, it would entirely cease to transform imperfect bodies toward that perfection which is achieved through the required projection proiectio: the final stage of the Great Work, where the Alchemical Stone is cast upon molten base metal to transform it. Truly, then it is called a "powerful temperament" only when it is