Particular from the Universal

to use further gold for it, for although it is opened by this solvens universale universal solvent, it does not seem to me as powerful and penetrant piercing/effective in the use of the medicine as the philosophical secret gold. For this is living, while that is to be reckoned dead, and as it goes into the human, so it also departs from him. This [philosophical gold] has in its center, which is for the most part coagulated by the air, dew, and sun ad superficiem terræ at the surface of the earth, more salt of nature, and pure sulfur or balm of life, and spirit of the world, than that which has come together in its body, commonly fully fixed in the deepest abyss of the earth. This, also according to its still imperfect, unspecified metallic substance of the matri metallorum womb of the metals...