The Golden Fleece, or Golden Treasury and Cabinet of Art

or quicksilver. Whether it is
not a common mercury
that comes through
the working of nature
to a perfect form of
gold, silver, or the
two metals,
is not
necessary to know here.
The natural teachers
describe it
quite clearly and sufficiently
in their books.
Upon this is
set and founded
the art of the Stone of the Wise the Philosophers' Stone,
for it has its
beginning in
nature; from this follows also
a natural end,
in righteous
form,
through righteous
natural means.