Divers Ilustrious men have
written touching the Verity
of this Arcanum, among these,
take the Sayings of some of them,
as follows.
PARACELSUS
In his Book Of the Signature of Natural
things.
The Tincture of Naturalists, is
a, true sign, that by the transmutative
virtue thereof, all imperfect
Metals are changed, viz. the
White into Silver, and the Red
into the best Gold, if an exceeding small
part of this Medicine well
prepared, be injected upon the
Metal, while in flux in a Crucible,
&c.
The same.
For the invincible Astrum of
Metals overcomes all things, and
changeth into a Nature like it self,
&c. This Gold and Silver is more noble,
and better, than those,
which are dug out of Metallick
Mines; for Medicinal Arcanums
to be prepared therefrom.
The same.
Therefore, I say every Alchimist,
which hath the Astrum of
Gold, is able to tinge all Red Metals
into Gold, &c.
The same.
Our Tincture of Gold hath
Astrums in it self, is a Substance
most fixed, and in multiplication
immutable. It is a Powder, haveing
a colour most red, almost like
Saffron, yet its whole Corporal
Substance, is liquid as Rosin, perspicuous
as Crystal, brittle as
Glass, of the colour of a Rubie,
and exceeding poaderous, &c.
Also read Paracelsus his Heaven
of Philosophers.
Likewise, Paracelsus his Seventh
Book, Of the Transmutation of Natural
things.
Transmutation is a great natural
Mystery, Metallick, and not
contrary to the Course of Nature,
nor repugnant to the Order of
GOD, as many men of it do falsly
judge. For imperfect Metals, are
changed neither into Gold, nor into
Silver, without this Stone of Philosophers.
Paracelsus, in his Manual of the
Medicinal Stone of philosophers.
Our Stone is a Celestial, and
more than perfect Medicine, because
it cleanseth all the impurities
of Metals, &c.