Feylesofların Taşı: Zenginin de Yoksulun da Elindeki Tek Şey

By knowing the natural roots, therefore, you will better perform your work from them, because I cannot express our stone in any other way, nor name it by any other name. It is clear from the foregoing, then, that our stone is made of the four elements. And both the rich and the poor possess it, and it is found everywhere, and it is likened to all things; it is composed of body, soul, and spirit, and it is converted from nature to nature, even unto the final degree of its perfection. They have also said that our stone is made from one thing, and this is true. For the entire mastery is performed with our water, for that very water is the seed of all metals, and all metals are dissolved into it, as has been shown. Likewise, the Salt of metals is the Stone of the Philosophers; for our stone is water congealed in gold and silver, and it resists fire, and is dissolved into its own water, from which it is composed according to its kind. Therefore, the reduction of bodies into the first matter, or into quicksilver, is nothing other than the resolution of congealed matter, through which the lock is opened by the entry of one nature into another. Whence the Philosophers have said, that the Sun is nothing else than mature quicksilver. For in Mercury there are only two elements in act, namely Earth and Water, which are passive. However, the active elements, such as Air and Fire, are in it only in potential. But since these elements in pure Mercury are led from pure potentiality into act, according to a proper digestion and proportional decoction, then it becomes gold. Arnold says: Whoever wishes to reach this science and is not a Philosopher is a fool, because this science is nothing if not concerning the secrets of the Philosophers. Senior says: For that Art is reserved in the power of God, which is an enemy to the Laity.