The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

unites itself to form the body of mineral Nature, which it appropriates: it is this body that appears as a certain vaporous and balsamic humor, in which the life and conservation of individuals secretly lies. In a word, it is a substance produced by Nature, and which is engendered in mineral veins, in which one must take the trouble to search. Visita interiora Terræ Visit the interior parts of the Earth. The full Latin text traditionally continues: "Rectificando invenies occultum lapidem Verumque Veram Medicinam," meaning "By rectifying you will find the hidden stone and the true medicine."

Having therefore known this true matter, Verumque centrum in trigono centri and the true center in the triangle of the center; I understood that it needed to be