Basil Valentine Revived or the Shining Star of Alchemy

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namely, dissolution breaking down and coagulation curdling/solidifying, composition or union. It has borrowed such general tasks or operations from cautious and blameless nature; hence the treatise Wasserstein der Weisen Touchstone of the Wise also says: Your own intention should be to follow your mother, Nature, by which reason can sustain you and philosophy can be your guide. Note what Aristoteles Aristotle says in the 3rd and 4th books of the Meteora Meteorology: Learn physica natural science and read the book de Generatione & Corruptione on Generation and Corruption, likewise de Cœlo & Mundo on Heaven and Earth, etc. CLANGIOR BUCINÆ The Sound of the Trumpet. Of all arts, Alchemy follows nature the most, and this because of its cooking and multiplication, etc. And when we consider the secret modes of speech, Cabbalistic riddles, and hieroglyphic figures that occur in this art, they prove sufficiently that a good and experienced natural scientist is required for the practice thereof. This is also testified to by INCERTUS MACROCOSMUS The Unknown Macrocosm: On the other hand, this art requires a good physicum natural scientist, since it investigates not the outer shells of natural things, namely, of metals and minerals, but the innermost hard, locked core, namely the principia prima constitutiva Elementorum first constitutive principles of the elements; without such knowledge it is...