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Kofski, Vinzenz · 1699

4 Report on the first Tincture
graceful one, a true doctor and physician in its nature. It is to be found, just as one wants it, good and evil; all this and much more is hidden within it. It is the true opener and closer, and a penetrator of all things; it is in three, and in the fourth it rejoices, and brings the three back into one; if you do not understand that, then you understand nothing. It is the same one to which the philosophers gave so many and varied names: It is the Signat-Star, the true Medicina medicine of the wise, and our stone, red and white tincture. It is a king of wealth and virtue; it has many friends and enemies who seek its life and stand against it: It is protected, guarded, and kept everywhere with all diligence. It is locked, grasped, and well-secured with vegetables, minerals, and metals so that no harm may come to it: It kills and strangles its own children and blood relatives, eats, swallows, and devours them, and makes them alive again: It changes itself with them into another better nature: It is visible and invisible, comprehensible and incomprehensible: For it is fiery and watery, cold and warm; it elevates and lowers: It comes from a pure seed: It is a small matter, but it grows and rises with beautiful colors, just like another flower: It is divided into three