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in the First Part. Or see Lullius likewise in the First Part of his Newest Testament. Albertus Magnus Albert the Great, a 13th-century polymath and saint adds in Volume 4 of the Theatrum Chymicum near the end of page 858: The envious Philosophers have called this Stone, or our Salt, by the names of all the metals. Hence Ros Aurificus the "Golden Rose," an alias for an alchemical author, a disciple of Roger Bacon, says in chapter 3: Hence it is mere foolishness to labor in metals and minerals, since the matter of the wise is a pure celestial vapor that can be coagulated, with which nature generates metals in the bowels of the earth. Because our minerals are our two gummy sulfurs, white and red, covered in one body, namely in our vegetable and mineral salt. As Ripley says in the Accurations and Practices of Raymond, this Hermaphroditic Salt, adorned with a double nature, is wisely drawn out from that congealed celestial vapor, as the Ros Aurificus said above. Whence Paracelsus adds in his Collections of Chemistry chapter 6, at the beginning: After our vegetables have been killed, the concurrence of two minerals, namely of sulfur and salt, are transmuted into a mineral nature, so that from there finally perfect minerals result, and so forth. On this point, see the author of the Ark of the Arcanum original: "arcæ arcani" in volume 6 of the Theatrum Chymicum under question 8, page 369, but capture the intention. And see the Chemical Gynecaeum original: "Ginecæum chemicum" pages 675 and 696, and know how to combine the teachings at the same time.

Let us see meanwhile where the wise, after so many Cabalas secret traditions and innumerable sophisms and confusions mixed in everywhere, all truly and generally agree, both