Confession on the Universal Physico-Chemical Chaos

Primordial and Universal, from which Minerals, Animals, Vegetables, indeed absolutely All Material things took their origin; even Adam the first-formed original: protoplastos. A Greek-derived term for the first-created human, emphasizing Adam as the original mold for humanity. himself. Whence comes that saying: Adam carried the Matter of the Stone with him out of Paradise. This famous alchemical axiom suggests that the raw material needed to create the Philosophers' Stone is not a rare mineral found in a specific mine, but is something inherent to the human condition or the human body itself. Therefore, from its State of exhaustion original: statu exinanitionis. This is a theological term (kenosis) usually referring to the humiliation or self-emptying of Christ. Khunrath applies it to alchemy to describe the First Matter in its raw, "lowly," or unrefined state., by a Physico-Chemical Regeneration, it is sublimated or exalted to a State of Glorification (on account of its Surpassing Perfection original: plusquamperfectionem. A technical alchemical term for a substance that has reached such a high degree of perfection that it can "overflow" and perfect other, lesser substances.).