The Instructed Beginner in Chemistry: A Hermetic Epistle

Also Sendivogius at the end of the 50th Epistle adds that our Subjectum material is something thick, opaque, white, and reddish, sweet, and of a pleasant smell, and contains in its center a dry earth (namely our wonderful central salt); and in the 54th Epistle he explains that the name of our Subjectum material is noted with 3 letters and 5 signs. Furthermore, at the end of the aforementioned Epistle 50, he concludes: that a fresh one is to be chosen, because this Subjectum material loses the universal spirit through length of time. And in his conclusion after his Twelve Treatises, he has called it a congealed air, a dew from the night, and a thinned water. And remember that the Materia matter is always only one. How will you then be able to apply what has been said to your ores minerae and regulus of antimony regulo martiali? Certainly, Regulus and ores do not end with 3 letters, the metals are not sweet, nor do they have a smell, they are no dew, no water, and they can also give off no spirit, because they have no spirit at all.

They are nothing universal, nor a congealed air, because they are already particular and dead bodies, and a third matter. Therefore Sendivogius adds in the previously cited concluding speech: if you have worked in the third matter, you will achieve nothing. Therefore; and Sendivogius himself in Epistles 50, 54, and the last, speaks of nothing else than of the universal spirit, etc. Therefore.

Of which universal spirit Basil Valentine speaks in his Treatise on Natural and Supernatural Things original: "Tract. de rebus nat. & supernat." as well as On the First Root of the Nature of Metals, and the Universal Mercurial Spirit original: "de prima radice naturæ metallorum, & spiritu universali mercuriali" chapter 3: (just like Sendivogius, since both are particularly dear to you, which is why I cite them here myself): my universal origin of metals is precisely that one unique universal spirit of Mercury, which all Sages have had, as those experienced ones who understand me will testify, and they will not be able to conclude otherwise. Look also at the Guidance of Elias original: "Cheiragogiam Heli" in Volume 4 of the Chemical Theater original: "theat. Chym." pages 265 and 285, from Basil himself, who is cited there regarding what he states about this universal spirit; where he openly