The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

purified by itself: That from this single matter, by the means of Vulcan the alchemical fire, I had to discover the double Mercury of Trevisan, to draw the Sulfur from the Sulfur, and the Mercury from the Mercury. Likewise, having drawn these two principles, the fixed and the volatile, the water and the fire from the center of the Sun, I had to reduce the triangle into the circle, which, without looking further, forms its quadrature, as is marked in the Figure at the beginning, page 4. Unitas est perfectionum origo Unity is the origin of perfections; One matter, one furnace, one di-