The Seven Chapters attributed to Hermes
Chapter seventh and last
...Son of the Philosophers, there are seven bodies or metals, between which Gold holds the first rank, as being the most perfect of all.
That is why they are called their King and their Head.
The earth can not corrupt it, the burning things do not destroy it. Water does not alter or change it, because its complexion is temperate, and it is also composed of heat, coldness, dryness, and humidity, and there is nothing superfluous in it. [60] That is why the Philosophers preferred him to all the others, and they highly esteemed him, assuring us that Gold, by its splendor, was with regard to Metals what the Sun was between the stars, by its light, that it is much more brilliant than all of them.
Therefore, as it is the Sun which, by the will of God, gives birth and grow all the plants and which produces and ripens all the fruits of the Earth, Gold also contains all metals in perfection.
It is he who gives life to them, because it is he who is the Ferment of the Elixir, and without the Elixir can not be perfect....
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