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...in his cited Treatise on Sulfur, in the discourse on the three Principles of all things, he wrote openly Note well: "There is only one true operation, outside of which there is no other that is true: therefore all those err and deceive who say there is any 'particular' outside this unique way and unique natural matter that is true. It is impossible for a foolish person to want to produce a branch before a good tree. It is easier to fashion the Stone itself than any 'particular,' even the simplest one, that would be useful, and so forth." And he further adds: "Indeed, many 'particulars' can be made once our tree is held, namely the universal root, whose shoots can be grafted onto various Trees, and so forth." And thus also Bernhard of Trevisan a 15th-century alchemist, and others, confirm, and so forth.

The same Sendivogius, later in his Epilogue after the twelve treatises existing in his New Light, adds, as we said above: "If you have worked in the third matter you will achieve nothing, as those do who labor foolishly outside this unique universal salt of ours, with the exception of our sun and moon, and so forth."

This is that same animated double salt sal duplex animatum, which is called our sun and moon, our gold and silver, or the solar and lunar body of the wise. As Lullius Ramon Lull and Geber an Arab alchemist, often referring to Pseudo-Geber in Latin texts most clearly declare in Volume 1 of the Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa by Jean-Jacques Manget, in the Dialogue of Bracceschus of Brescia at the end of page 915 cited there, who add that: "The wise have known no other gold and silver in this art, nor have they understood anything other than this unique animated double salt, and so forth."