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Chapter II Of the Theory of Transmutation in General, and of the First Matter

Est in Mercurio quicquid quaerunt Sapientes --- Turba Ecercit.1. The theory of Alchemy, though arcane, is very simple; its basis indeed may be comprehended in that only statement of Arnold di Villanova, in his Speculum, --- That there abides in nature a certain pure matter, which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself proportionally all imperfect bodies that it touches.