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“The Sages have striven to discover how those sulphurs may be extracted from those more perfect bodies, and how their qualities may be so refined by Art, that that which was not manifest before (although it always lay hid in them) may appear by the mediation of the said Art with Nature.”

Richard the Englishman, following Avicenna, affirms (cp. xi.)

The Golden Tract Concerning The Stone of the Philosophers