The New Pearl of Great Price a Treatise Concerning the Treasure And Most Precio
The New Pearl of Great Price a Treatise Concerning the Treasure And Most Precio
Giano Lacinio
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The first matter of all metals, then, is humid, viscous, incombustible, subtle, incorporated, in the mineral caverns, 192 The New Pearl of Great Price. With subtle earth, with which it is equally and indissolubly mixed in its smallest particles. The proximate mat- ter of metals is quicksilver, generated out of their indissoluble commixtion. To this Nature, in her wisdom, has joined a proper ao;ent, viz. , sulphur, which digests and moulds it into the metallic form. Sulphur is a certain earthy f...atness, thickened and hardened by well-tempered decoction, and it is related to quicksilver as the male to the female, and as the proper agent to the proper matter. Some sulphur is fusible, and some is not, according as the metals to which it belongs are also fusible or not. Quicksilver is coagulated in the bowels of the earth by its own proper sulphur. Hence we ought to say that these two, quicksilver and sulphur, in their joint mutual operation, are the first principle of metals. The possi- bility of changing common metals into gold lies in the fact that in ordinary metals the sulphur has not yet fully done its work ; for if they were perfect as they The Principles of Metals.
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