Chemical Investigation of the Difference Between Philosophical and Mineral Antimony, as well as Philosophical and Common Mercury

...nature, and the qualities and capabilities thereof. For if today the searchers of nature (whom GOD created before all the world and into which he has enclosed a spirit) only considered: what it is? What it encompasses? And what its term and goal are? Then such people would stand in certain and good hope of achieving the goal of their undertaking, which should consist in the extraction drawing out and separation division of the pure from the impure, and which must be obtained through the universal quintessence of the elements the fifth, pure essence of matter in the