Golden Fleece — Trismosin (Splendor Solis Author), 18th-Century MS

say the Count of Trevisan and the Great Rosary, reconcile the
philosophers and it will be well for you. original Latin: "concorda philosophos & bene tibi erit"

If you want to see the concord of all your discords,
Accord the accords of the Sages without discord.

Who have instituted as the foundation of this Art a
natural principle, not however familiar but
by a hidden operation and science; although
it may be manifest and clearer than the day that
all corporeal things take their Source and
their being from the terrestrial mass, For the earth is
the mother of the Elements; from the earth they proceed &
to the earth they return, says the doctor Hermes. original Latin: "Terra enim est mater Elementorum; de terra procedunt & ad terram revertuntur"
The earth is the Mother Element of all things,
Which as a nurse she encircles in her enclosed matrix.

As the vessel of generations; as well as their
properties according to the order of time, by the influence
of the Heavens (which serve her as seed and formative
heat to make the matter germinate and produce it),
of the Planets, of the Sun, of the Moon, or of the stars, and
thus of the others consecutively with the four
qualities of the Elements, which serving as a matrix
to one another, move incessantly, and to which
all growing and nascent things are related
with a particular origin and form in their
own substances, in conformity with the almighty
and divine will, which rendered them thus from
the first instant and the beginning of the
admirable creation of the world.

All metals also placed in the rank of created things hold
their origin from the earth, mother of the Elements and
nurse of all things, as we have already declared above,
with a proper and individual matter,
derived at the same time from the four properties of the
Elements, by the influential concurrence of the force
of metals and the conjunctions of the constellation
of the planets. Aristotle in the 4th book of his Meteorology original: "Metheores"
is indeed of the same opinion, when he maintains and says,
That quicksilver mercury is indeed a common matter
of all metals, but that nature first gathers
and unites together the matters of the
four Elements alone, to afterward compose a
body according to the effect and the property of the matter,
which the Philosophers name Mercury or quicksilver,
a common name or one made by natural operation,
thus having a perfect form of gold and silver,
or rather deriving from the two perfect metals. The
Naturalists curious to know the state of minerals
speak clearly enough of it in their books,
without there being any need to write more at length here,
except that upon this purified and solid base the
principle and the artifice of the stone of the
Sages is properly founded, the beginnings of which are
found in the center and the perfect body of nature,
which depends on no living being; and from her
herself also do we see it borrow the only means
of its perfect form and the greatest contentment
of its final perfection.