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...in the sixth chapter at the beginning and the seventh chapter at the end. These are our two aforementioned sulfurs, namely the white and the red, contained in a single salt of nature. These are also the true ferment of the Stone and the true minerals of the wise, regarding which one should see Paracelsus in the cited place in the same chapter eight, and so forth.

Elsewhere the wise say, and not without cause, that their matter (as we demonstrated above) proceeds from animals and vegetables. Yet, in truth, it has a mineral part within itself, specifically a central, fixed, animated salt of a metallic nature, which is fusible, incombustible, bitter, and fluid. Regarding this mineral part thus explained, Lullius Ramon Lull and Geber an Arabic alchemist speak clearly in the location cited above in Volume 1 of Manget’s Curious Chemical Library original: "Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa". For this reason, they said their Stone is triple in name (vegetable, animal, and mineral) but one in being, as is read in the Rosary of the Philosophers original: "Rosarium Philosophorum", and so forth. Concerning this matter adorned with a triple name, and why it is so called, one should see Christopher of Paris a 15th-century alchemist in his Elucidarius, Book 2, chapter 1. From there, it is declared in clear words in some volume of the Theatrum Chemicum Chemical Theater, where it is openly demonstrated by some sincere philosopher why it is so called and what it truly is. However, I cannot note where this is here, lest this letter perhaps fall into other hands, but when I am with you, I will demonstrate it, and then Your Excellency will be amazed. This is the reason why the wise described three distinct works, even though it is always one work and a single matter. Hence Lullius wrote in his Elucidation of the Testament, chapter 1: "We have described three Stones, namely, the Animal,"