Philosophical Scrutiny of the True Elixir of Life

it is right that that feminine principle, which God, the Three Times Best and Greatest, testifies to in the Enchyridio Physicæ reſtitutæ Handbook of Restored Physics, canon 25, produced in conjunction with the masculine principle by His divine creative power before all other created things, exercised its dominion or activity first. And why not? For, as the aforementioned canon of the Handbook of Restored Physics testifies, the feminine principle is entirely dark, and although it is spirit, it tends more toward a corporeal nature, and therefore is called the principle of stupor, opacity, and cold. Conversely, the other, masculine principle is bright, and thus it is deservedly called the beginning of heat, light, and motion. This, therefore, was the order of creation