The Golden Fleece, or Golden Treasury and Cabinet of Art

ture of the elements.
And Rosinus also
intends this, saying:
all who engage in
this art
and lack the
understanding and knowledge
of the things
which the philoso-
phers have written
in their books,
they are
incomprehensible. For the
philosophers have
established the foundation of this art
in a natural
beginning
but with a hidden
effect. Although it is
obvious
that all bodily things
take their origin from
the earth,
likewise also their
being, according to the
order of time,
so that the influence of the stars