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