The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

attracted by the magnet of each Mixte mixed or composite body, it embodied itself there; and the Earth, retaining this heat which had passed through all its thickness, coagulated it in its center in the form of a watery fire and a burning water; that is to say, a fusible salt, which, wishing to return according to its nature toward its center, was held back in the matrices while rising: And because these matrices had a virtue peculiar to their species, in one it was determined to one thing, and in another to something else, always engendering their like: Thus from ma-