Essais chimiques d’eckartshausen

Essentiality and Quality, or Purpose of Inner Nature

When our white earth is united with sulfur, it is the Mercury of the Sages, - the true metallic Gur in the philosopher's water, said the ancients: Latet Spiritus Essentiœ qui solius est virtus magistraliter corrumpere et in ima Mateiriam Corpora transmutare. (It lies in the essence of the Spirit, who alone is the power to corrupt and transform the bodies beneath the material.(?))

TRUTH is the secret substance of all things, the generating Soul, the Light; and this Truth is the “only necessary”.

Our white earth is a concentrated sun, when it has boiled in its acid, it is the philosopher's elixir. This is why the Enigma of Paracelsus is true, to the letter: “We must steal the sun, cook water in the moon.

Stealing the sun is our sulfur, formed of concentrated solar atoms; sulfur-phosphorus, Moon water is our Acid¹¹.

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   White earth is the philosophical mercury at one of its stages of maturation. The sulfur of nature can be conceived here as the universal mercury, under one of its modalities. To unite them, in the different degrees of their mutual exaltation, that is science.
   
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   Sulfur-phosphorus can be considered as the Fire element of Fire-Water.