Lumen de Lumine

Thus have they described unto us the Mount of God, the mysticall Philosophicall Horeb; which is nothing else but the highest and purest part of the Earth. For the superior secret portion of this Element is Holy ground, and Aristotle tels his Peripatetics, Locus quo Excelsior, eo Divinior. It is the Seed-plot of the Eternall Nature, the immediat Vessell, and Recipient of Heaven, where all Minerals and Vegetables have their Roots, and by which the Animal Monarchie is maintain'd. This Philosophicall Black Saturn mortifies and coagulates the Invisible Mercury of the stars, and on the contrary the Mercury kils and dissolves the Saturn, and out of the Corruption of Both, the Central and Circumferentiall Suns generat a new Body. Hence the Philosophers describing their stone, tell us it is Lapis niger, vilis, & fætens, & dicitur Origo Mundi, & oritur sicut Germinantia.