The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

the first origin of all creations: an Earth, as Scripture says, Inanis & vacua empty and void, which was not yet reduced to an essential form, and in which were enclosed all the things of the World. Just as we see that within a seed is contained, in all its substance and form, a great and large tree with its root, its trunk, its branches, its leaves, and its fruits: in this Earth, I say, were hidden for the future all sensible things, which from potentiality were to come into act, to vegetate, flour-