Book of Truth and the Philosophers — 1664 German MS

...is ignited, Christians should no longer believe what is merely at hand.

Chapter 6

If the Solar Work the alchemical process of creating gold or spiritual enlightenment is to be produced correctly from the mineral realm, then no other foundation is available to us than the Holy Scripture original: "h. göttliche schrifft". Note: It speaks or is one and the same. This Scripture is the wisdom and the teaching for all manual practices of Science knowledge for the believer before the only true God of the Sacrosanct Divine Unity original: "Sacrosancti: Divinae Unitatis". This was also gloriously expressed by Hermes Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Hellenistic figure to whom many alchemical works are attributed in his Smaragdine Tablet Emerald Tablet, as all things have this single origin. This substance has its office as a means of digestion, refinement, and reduction to water, which this Stone original: "Lapidem"; the Philosopher's Stone makes possible.

He who desires this must know how a noble thing comes to be. Hermes describes these eternal things further: the Sun is its father and the Moon its mother the text likely refers to the "Smaragdine Tablet" which states "The Sun is its father, the Moon its mother". Now the way is thus. The wise now show the truth.
Note: The mother has pain because then another being...
...is seen through the white face, bound to nothing and lamented. Although it appears to be born from father and mother, it is still holy. Whether it appears to be what the wise here describe as similar in voice and being, it is also confused by useless rain. Just as a newborn silver does not blink its eye, here it stands and has a shape. Although it makes one powerful, it remains a pure spark from the sun and an heir. Whoever finds it finds a strong deed, for although they had many things from which they were born, the mother has become a pure spark.