The Golden Fleece or Golden Treasure and Art Chamber

...with a pure, subtle earthly substance; thus is produced the Philosophers’ Mercury Philosophen Quecksilber; in alchemy, this is not common quicksilver, but a refined, "spiritual" liquid principle representing the soul or the feminine aspect of matter.. However, as much as is brought to maturity and transformed into a fiery, earthy, and subtle hardness, thus is produced the Philosophers’ Sulfur Philosophen schwäbel; representing the masculine principle of heat and "fixed" stability that gives form to the Mercury.. Regarding this sulfur, Hermes Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Hellenistic figure regarded as the father of alchemy and author of the "Emerald Tablet." rightly concludes, saying: it receives the power of the uppermost and lowermost planets original: "Planeten"; this is a variation of the Emerald Tablet's famous line regarding "the power of the things above and below.", and with its power it penetrates all solid things; it overcomes all things, and

A hand-colored illustration of a rocky hillside where alchemical mining is depicted. A man in white robes and red leggings stands on the slope, swinging a pickaxe at the rock face. Below him, in a shallow cave or rocky niche, another man sits working on a stone with a small tool. Two ibexes or mountain goats stand on the jagged peaks above them. At the bottom of the hill, a small stream flows under a wooden plank bridge. A golden crescent-shaped vessel or boat floats in the water.