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10 the Tree of Dulcification and the Mineral Arcanum
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1723 pp 375–376Nun aber so kommen objectiones. Denn es werden einige sagen: Dieser process ist vero contra omnes Philosophos, die da befehlen, aus jedem minerali seinen [Mercurius], [Sulphur] und [Sal] zu scheiden, als die eigentliche angeformirte principia; Hier aber macht er aus jedem minerali ein [Sal] oder Vitriol, aus diesem ein corrosivisches Oehl, und solches figiret er wieder in ein [Sal]. Wo bleibt denn der [Mercurius] in forma sicca & currente? Mein Lieber, wer du bist, und du diesen Weg erlangest, den du in allen Büchern beschrieben findest, ich bekenne dir frey, daß du nicht weit kommen bist, vielweniger die Natur der mineralien recht untersuchet, noch viel weniger die Philosophos verstanden. Du wirst auch bey denen Philosophis gelesen haben: wiewol es hier nicht also zu verstehen ist, denn illa est altior via: Sal metallorum est Lapis Philosophorum & Magisterium artis, und dieses Saltz hat den [Mercurius] und Schwefel in sich verborgen, wirds zum Oehl gemacht, heists Schwefel, und sein innerlich wirckender Geist ist [Mercurius], so ist Saltz, Schwefel und [Mercurius] beysammen. Wenn dieses Oehl denn wieder zu Saltz coaguliret wird und fix gemacht: wie es denn per lentem humidi abstractionem gleich coaguliret, und in der Wärme als ein Oehl fliesset gantz beständig, aber in der Kälte gestehet als ein Eiß, und in allen liquoribus zergehet, wie Zucker im Wasser, ohne einige praecipitation: Solches ist denn eine reale Medicin ad morbos quoscunque curandos. Es wird einer wiederum einwenden: Diese operation wird nicht allein mit corrosiven gemacht, sondern das corrosiv wird auch dabey gelassen und nicht mehr separiret. Nun muß ich, diesem aus dem Traum zu helffen, wieder eine Weitläufftigkeit begehen, und zurück gar auf den Ursprung lauffen.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 10 the Tree of Dulcification and the Mineral Arcanum
1723 pp 375–376Now come objections. Some will say: 'This process is truly contrary to all philosophers, who command us to separate from every mineral its mercury, sulphur, and salt, its properly constituted principles. Here he makes each mineral into a salt or vitriol, from this a corrosive oil, and fixes that again into salt. Where is mercury, in dry and flowing form?' My dear friend, whoever you are, if you have attained this route described in all the books, I freely tell you that you have not come far, still less properly investigated mineral nature, and least of all understood the philosophers. You will also have read among them—although it is not to be understood in the same way here, for that is a higher route—that the salt of metals is the philosophers' stone and the magistery of art. This salt contains mercury and sulphur hidden within it. Made into oil, it is called sulphur; its inwardly working spirit is mercury. Thus salt, sulphur, and mercury are together. When this oil is coagulated again into salt and made fixed—as it readily coagulates through slow withdrawal of moisture—it flows constantly like oil in warmth, sets like ice in cold, and dissolves in all liquors like sugar in water, without precipitation. It is then a real medicine for curing any diseases whatsoever. Someone will object again: 'This operation is not only performed with corrosives; the corrosive is also left with it and never separated again.' To disabuse him of this notion, I must become lengthy once more and return all the way to the origin.
Socrates
Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 10 the Tree of Dulcification and the Mineral Arcanum · B2C10S008 · 1723 pp 375–376
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The two-book alchemical work of 1723 in German with a new English translation, 399 notes, eight historical diagrams, chapter outlines, keyword essays, a glossary, bibliography, subject index, and 400 discussion questions.
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Anonymous, Aurea Catena Homeri. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Georg Böhme, 1723. Traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger; the attribution remains uncertain. Historical diagrams from the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung copy digitized by e-rara.
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