Revelation and Declaration of Basilius Valentinus

any red if it has not been first made white.

I could still write of many natural and supernatural things and recount their admirable virtues, besides what I have said before, and what I intend to say in the following chapters on the rest of the seven METALS. But because another task prevents me, I will conclude this chapter as briefly as I can, reserving myself to declare the rest of the secret science of the METALS and MINERALS in the book that I will soon bring to light, containing a treatise on ANTIMONY, Vitriol, Sulfur, and the Magnet of the Philosophers, and other matters which, by preference, hold locked within their interior the true MATTER and substance from which GOLD and SILVER have their Beginning, Middle, and End, along with their true particular transmutations, even though this virtue in its perfection may be in one single and unique MATTER, in which the seed of all METALS and MINERALS is invisibly hidden, and this MATTER is visible to the eyes of everyone. But because the operation of its virtue is deeply hidden and locked away, and is unknown to many, that is why this worthy MATTER is esteemed useless and of no value, and thus it will remain, if it is not that, following the example of the