The Matter of the Stone and the Fire of Philosopher's In which consists all the Magisterium

The Matter of the Stone and the Fire of Philosopher's In which consists all the Magisterium

The first matter is far from which the Sages compose their universal medicine, which is their elixir or great work, and the greatest or in all natural operations; called Philosopher's Stone, is other than a compound made by nature, without the aid of art, which contains be the four elemental qualities in a temperament of equality proportional, in which subject, it reaches a certain complexion, to pass to the supreme degree of perfection of art, and of nature, and then is called Divine work.

This material does not only contain the above four qualities of which it is composed, but in this subject, which is simple in its the three kingdoms of nature, mineral, animal, and vegetable, but it derives its origin from the first which is the mineral, and then acquire the others through the operations of nature, but without help from art to the third.

Nature draws the subject of this noble substance from the delights and loves of mineral elements, pushing by the action of its universal agent, and which is center of each thing, a certain unctuous vapor, which contains in itself an admirable sulphurous quality, and by encountering on the way a certain virgin, subtle, pure land, with which it puts itself with all its parts, being bound to it, it removes it with itself, and raises it by some small canals and sluices, up to the surface of the earth, it is finally by its lightness and the own instrument of its elevated nature up to the region of the air.