This library is built in the open.
If you spot an error, have a suggestion, or just want to say hello — we’d love to hear from you.
Khunrath, Heinrich · 1607

STONE, not a STONE: how.
A THING among the Philosophers or WISDOM-lovers that a STONE is not a STONE; to the ignorant it is slight and unbelievable. For who would believe that a STONE could become WATER (do you hear well, you coarse Idiot and ignorant layman’s ass-head, what the wise man says here) or WATER become a STONE, since nothing is more unbelievable and further from one another? Nevertheless, it is, in TRUTH, so. For this FLOWING WATER IS ITSELF A STONE, and WHEN IT IS WATER, THEN IT IS NO STONE. In such a way, THIS WATER has received various names; so far BELUS.
MAGNESIA; MAGNUM ÆS IAH; Crude STONE of the Wise, impure and perfect; Philosophical CHAOS primary-material, confused Matter. MASS of the marriage of the SUN & MOON of the Wise; which, witness the wise man among the PHILOSOPHER SENIOR ZADITH, son of Hamuel, is COMPOSED WATER, frozen, resisting FIRE: that wide, great, good SEA, whose goodness HERMES recommended; DRY WATER, not wetting the hands, and a THING, which according to MORIENUS, dominates the ELEMENTS, and which at the time of the FLOOD