Tyro-chymicus instructus epistola hermetica

...animals our matter originates. But one might ask, how? I respond with Mercurius Philosophus the "Philosophical Mercury," personified here as a speaker, citing Paracelsus from the place mentioned above: "It is permitted only to the Prophets and Adepts of God to understand this, and to those who know the matter" original: "Non nisi solis Dei Prophetis Adeptísque hoc permissum est intelligere, & illis, qui materiam nôrunt." (Paracelsus, chapter 7, Collections of Chemistry original: "Conger. citat.").

Likewise, Sendivogius Michael Sendivogius, a famous Polish alchemist adds at the end of Letter 50: "That our subject is thick, opaque, white and reddish, sweet, and of a pleasant odor, and contains within its center dry Earth" namely our central wonderful Salt and in Letter 54, he declares that the name of our subject is completed with three letters and five characters. And further, at the end of the aforementioned Letter 50, he concludes: "That it must be chosen fresh, because this subject easily releases the universal spirit over the course of time." And in his Epilogue after his twelve Treatises, he named it "congealed air, and dew of the night, and rarefied water."

And should one keep in memory that the matter is always unique? Therefore, how could the aforementioned things ever be adapted to their minerals and to the martial regulus a metallic form of antimony reduced with iron? Certainly, the Regulus and the minerals are not completed by three letters: metals are not sweet, nor do they have any odor. They are not dew, nor water, nor can they release a spirit, since they entirely lack spirit. They are not universal, nor congealed air, because they are specified, dead bodies and a third matter. Therefore, Sendivogius adds in his previously cited Epilogue: "That if you have worked in the third matter, you will achieve nothing, therefore?" Take the words of Sendivogius...