Revelation and Declaration of Basilius Valentinus

Afterwards, the Tout-puiſſant Almighty provided a means by which His will could be accomplished by the Nature of each thing, so that one might be capable of acting upon the other and of assisting one another. And thus the influence of the lights or Aſtres celeſtes celestial stars was given to the Terre Earth in order to engender, as well as an internal heat to boil and warm what would be too cold in its entrails because of its aqueous nature, each thing producing by this means according to its genre and species. Likewise, the Heaven filled with ESTOILLES stars excites a hot quality and a sulphurous vapor, subtle, pure, and clarified, which joins and unites with the Mercuriale Mercurial substance of the earth. By this hot quality, the moisture is little by little dried up, and if at the same time the AME Soul, which is the balm of nourishment, joins the CORPS Body, operating by the celestial influence, then the perfect or imperfect Metaux metals are engendered, according to how the three principles have worked more or less. But if this Mercurial spirit coming from above is specified upon the Animal, it becomes an animal, or if it is specified upon the Mineral, it becomes a mineral, albeit with distinction, and according to how it has operated: