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Of Natural

and Supernatural

Things.

The First Chapter.

Since I have resolved now to write of the First Tincture tincture: in alchemy, a concentrated medicinal or transformative substance, often the goal of the "Great Work", the root of metals and of minerals, and to present a report concerning the spiritual essence—specifically, how metals and minerals are initially conceived in spirit original: "Geistlich entpfangen" and then born into physical form original: "Leibhafft geboren": it is necessary that I first offer a discourse and explain through this sermon that all things are found to consist of two parts, namely, Natural and Supernatural things. What is visible, tangible, and possessed of form is natural; but what is intangible, spiritual, and ethereal original: "Spiritualisch" is