Philosophical Scrutiny of the True Elixir of Life

namely, the feminine principle exercising its activity first, which was then followed by the activity of the masculine, hot, and bright principle. Wherefore nature, as if an ape, always observing this order of its creator, presupposes night for the following day, corruption for generation, darkness for light, and for the budding spring, the rigid, cold, death-dealing, and cruel winter. For nature always strives to follow the most wise operation of its Creator as naturally as possible, both by observing the same method and by following the same order. And this it does as much by divine instinct as by one innate and most natural to it. Good God! If it is so, as it is, that nature in its simplicity, by its operation,