Chemical-Philosophical Treatise on Natural and Supernatural Things

The beginning, therefore, which concerns the spirit of this mercury, it is not expedient for you to know, provided you observe that its beginning is supernatural, granted to it from the stars and elements since the creation, so that it might enter into the earthly thing. Because that is necessary, as I have warned, leave the celestial things to the soul, and grasp them with faith; also dismiss the sidereal, since such sidereal impressions are invisible and incomprehensible. The Elements have also already brought the spirit into the light through nourishment, therefore also omit them, since no one except GOD can produce the Elements. Rely uniquely on your own elaborated spirit, now a participant in form and experienced in form, comprehensible and incomprehensible, yet visibly presented; thus you will have enough of the first matter from which all Metals and Minerals are born. It is one thing, and such is the matter which is united to the sulphur of the following chapter and enters into coagulation with the salt of the fifth chapter, so that a body may result from it, and the perfect Medicine of all Metals, which not only generates in the earth as if in a macrocosm in the beginning, but also through the help