Basil Valentine Revived or the Shining Star of Alchemy

in high, subtle questions, but in inner light and purity, in the power to penetrate everything, in the lively sensation and experience in the spirit, and in clarified, eternally constantly united tincturial bodies, etc. We could add almost countless citations that have let forth excellent praises of the truth of this highly praised art.

All learned people agree on the following: that that is a true art which prescribes certain rules and doctrines so that they may be applied to a certain purpose or end; Alchemy possesses these prescribed requirements in the highest degree: for it is an art that teaches how the pure is to be separated from the impure, and this is confirmed by the CONCORDANTIA CHYMIÆ Concordance of Chemistry. The art is nothing other than the cleaning of three things from the incurred impurities, which are a destruction and dispersal of the good. However, the author speaks of that cleaning which is performed in the tribus principiis metallicis three metallic principles, which the book ALZE confirms with him. Alchemy is nothing other than an art that serves to clean the essence of the 7 planets or metals, etc. To attain such a purpose of cleaning, it uses the following infallible rules, namely...