Major Elucidator or Illuminations on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

God gives the time and the life to come to this high essence, notwithstanding that he might be old. For although the Philosophi philosophers who have possessed it were old, they nevertheless delighted themselves with it in their old age. Whoever has such a thing possesses all goods and great wealth; from an ounce, indeed a grain, he can be constantly healthy and rich.

Samuel Trismosinus: It is the greatest treasure in this world that can be given to man; and if God, the most Almighty Lord of Heaven and Earth, were to grant it, man could prolong and sustain his life for many hundreds of years with this arcano secret/remedy, when it is resolved into medicine. For this great fire of this mystery rejuvenates man from the foundation up,