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In metals,says Geber, is lesser perfection than in animals; and the perfection of them consists more in proportion and composition than in anything else. Therefore, seeing in them less perfection than the other, we can more freely perfect these. , that which is from the way of proportionate mixtion of the matter (57). But metals, notwithstanding their inferiority of proportion, are said to be produced originally, as all other things are produced, from metalline seeds out of the Universal Spirit or Mercury, by which also they may be exalted and multiplies, and by no other thing; for that without this spirit growth is impossible, or transmutation or increase, and by it all natures are generated externally in their proper kinds.
P. 189. (73) See Introitus Apertus ad Occlusum Regis Palationem, cap. xiii. (74) Dee’s Diary, Spet. 1586. (75) See notes appended to the Theat. Chem. Brit. (76) See :A True and Faithful Relation of what passed for many years between Dr John Dee and some Spirits, London 1659. (77) See Boehme’s Works, edited by Law and others, 4 vols. (78) Philippi Mulleri Miracula et Mysteria Medico-Chemica, Wirtemburg 1656. Amb. Muller’s Paradeis-Spiegel, Launenberg, 1704. (79) Probier Stein, Frankfurt 1740. , Frankf.
And thus, continues another, when the mineral spirit is pure, it will, by its especial forms, do more than generate their forms to produce something like themselves, for it will work such an alteration in things of like nature with themselves, that they shall equalize the Philosophical Elixir, whose divine virtues wise men so much admire, and fools condemn because their blinded eyes cannot penetrate within to the center of the mystery (49). We do not presume to suppose that such a view of nature will be immediately acceptable, or that the Hermetic theory presents itself even in a plausible aspect as yet; the Laws on this ground are directly inverse to our ordinary notions of natural procedure and to our acquired conception of simplicity and specific variation.