The Golden Fleece, or Golden Treasury and Cabinet of Art

or planets, as there are
Sun and Moon,
and the others,
along with the 4 qualities hot, cold, dry, moist of the elements, which they
move without ceasing,
are thereby
brought forth,
all and every
growing and
generating thing
with a specific
kind and
form in its own substance material essence, as
such was, in the beginning of
creation, created and established
by God the
Creator.
Accordingly, then,
all metals take
their beginning from
the earth,
flowing together in a
particular and
own materia matter/material from the 4 proper-