Book of Truth and the Philosophers — 1664 German MS

born, they may be as they will. It
seems to him and to us artful that the
vegetabilia vegetable things can do nothing with [them].
The vegetabilia, if they are not artfully
prepared, yield nothing but a
little acidity, and bind to the trans-
mutatio transmutation, in the same way
as the vegetabilia are ordered by God
to be born annually
and to multiply. Thus they have also
grown into Aurvm Gold, therefore it is then
said:

That which is made quickly,
perishes quickly original Latin: "Quod cito fit cito perit".
And here it is to be known that the mi-
neral and vegetable power
and their medicine, which have such a great
distinction, are the same as between
masters and servants, and the doctors of
Hampfer. Perhaps a reference to a specific person or place.

Chapter 3.

But so that the proof may be taught according to the
chemical teaching and philosophical teaching
from ocular evidence—

since they are well acquainted with the natural.
How the metals are composed from the water, by
the Sun represented by symbol ☉, Fire represented by symbol 🜂, and Mercury represented by symbol ☿
through the 4 qualities, and are born, is from these
ornate and philosophical conclusions.
For they say that all things are from that
out of which they were made or
born. But the metals [dissolve] into
water, solvirt dissolved into a clear water.
From this it follows indeed that they
are made out of waters from the
beginning. Therefore it is thus
spoken and concluded by the wise
regarding the knowledge of virtue:

Furthermore, Mercury is of those
things that exist from that into which
it is resolved original Latin: "Ceterum Mercurius est vnorum esse exv in qvot resolvitur".
For among the wise it does not
follow [otherwise], because they also
possess the art and use spagiria spagyrics and
separation effectively, where the Sun symbol ☉ and Moon symbol ☽ work
and separate.