The Golden Fleece, or Golden Treasury and Cabinet of Art

ties of the 4 elements with an
implantation of metallic
powers and their
gathering from the influx of the
planets serving thereon, as
such is well described by the
natural master Aristotle
in the 4th book de Meteoris on Meteorological phenomena,
where he speaks
of how quicksilver mercury
is a common material
of all metals.
But it is to
be known
that in Nature the
first thing is
to heap together the materials
from the 4
elements, only according to the knowledge
and property of
nature. The same materiam matter
the philosophers call Mercurium mercury,