Basilius Valentinus Redivivus or the Resurrected Basilius Valentinus or the Shining Star of Alchemy

in high, subtle questions, but in inner light and purity, in the power to penetrate all things, in lively feeling and experience in the spirit, and in a clarified, eternally enduring, united tinctured body etc. We could add almost countless citations which have let forth excellent praise-sayings concerning the truth of this highly praised art.

All learned men are in agreement on the following: that it is a true art which prescribes certain rules and doctrines so that they may be applied to a certain purpose or end. Alchemy possesses these prescribed requirements in the highest degree: for it is an art that teaches how the pure is to be separated from the impure, and this the CONCORDANTIA CHYMIÆ Concordance of Chemistry confirms. The art is nothing other than the purification of three things from the fallen impurities, which are a destruction and dispersal of the good. However, the author speaks of that purification which is performed in the three metallic principles salt, sulfur, and mercury, which the book ALZE confirms with him. Alchemy is nothing else but an art that serves to purify the essence of the 7 planets or metals, etc. To attain such a purpose of purification, it uses the following infallible rules, namely