Restored Hermetic Science of the Ancient Philosophers

suffer at the hands of perjurous, false, and godless men.

That the art of the transmutation of metals original Latin: "Transmutationis metallorum." is true and certain, we have bright and clear proof in the philosophical books, showing that many high and holy people possessed this noble art. As Lacinius Janus Lacinius, a 16th-century Calabrian monk and editor of alchemical manuscripts, best known for his collection The New Pearl of Great Price (Pretiosa Margarita Novella). writes concerning this:

If it did not offend our Christian faith nor the law, I would dare to say (if it were permitted) that certain of the ancient prophets possessed this art—such as Moses, David, Solomon, and certain others, and likewise John the Evangelist—which they intermixed with and concealed within the words of the Lord, as the Sages original Latin: "Sapientes." have considered. Hence Rosinus Rosinus is the Latinized name often used in alchemical literature to refer to Zosimos of Panopolis, an early Graeco-Egyptian alchemist. says: God rightly bestowed it upon Moses.

Likewise, regarding this, Alphidius An influential, though semi-legendary, Arabic alchemist often cited by European Hermeticists. cites the third chapter of the Prophet Malachi, where the purification of the subject original Latin: "Purgatio subjecti." In alchemy, the "subject" is the base matter or "prime matter" that must be cleansed of impurities to reach the state of the Philosopher's Stone. of this art was foretold through the prophet:

He shall sit all day as a refiner and shall purge the silver, and he shall purge the sons of Levi; and once this purification original Latin: "purgatione." is completed, there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, and all flesh shall see its salvation.