Basilius Valentinus Redivivus or the Resurrected Basilius Valentinus or the Shining Star of Alchemy

namely, dissolution, or breaking down, and coagulation, curdling, composition, or unification. It has borrowed such general tasks or operations from the cautious and blameless nature; therefore, the treatise Waterstone of the Wise also says: It is now your own intention to follow your mother Nature, by which reason can sustain you and philosophy can be your guide. Note what Aristotle says in the 3rd and 4th books of Meteorology: Learn physics, and read the book On Generation and Corruption, and On Heaven and World, etc. CLANGIOR BUCINÆ The Sound of the Trumpet. Alchemy follows nature the most among all arts, and this because of its cooking and multiplication, etc. And when we consider the secret modes of speech, Kabbalistic riddles, and hieroglyphic figures that occur in this art, they prove sufficiently that a good and experienced natural scientist is required for its practice. This is also testified to by INCERTUS MACROCOSMUS The Uncertain Macrocosm: On the other hand, this art requires a good physicist, since it does not investigate the outer shells of natural things, note: of metals and minerals, but the innermost hard closed core, namely the primary constituent principles of the elements. Without such knowledge, it is