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60. The Stone comes in White and Red

…… Statistical Significance ……… Supporting sources: 10

Contradicting sources: 0

Statistical significance: 0.9999990

This premise is statistically significant

…… Supporting Quotations ……… [798] first it prepares the white tincture, and then the red. For the Sun

and Moon are prepared by the same method, and yield the red and white tincture, respectively

~ Flamell, Nicholas. A Short Tract, or Philosophical Summary. 15th Cen. Alchemical Tract

[587] It is evident that all little trees, flowers and small herbs are

produced from water and the union of a subtle earth. And if you endeavor to produce a tree or an herb, you must not take earth or water, but rather that which is from them, as a scion or a seed, which being committed to the bosom of the earth, the parent of all things, and cherished with a nutriment of their own nature, and called forth by the darting of the solar light, do in due time break out into the superficies of the earth, into the species of a tree or an herb. In like manner that divine art teaches how to take the seed our of the more perfect body; which being put into the philosophical earth prepared by art and continually decocted by a temperate heat into a white or red powder, is said to have converted the inferior bodies into the nature of the superior.

~ Ficinus, Marsilius. Book of the Chemical Art. 15th Cen. Alchemical Tract

[801] cook perfectly the white Elixir to give it the color of cinnabar,

starting there in order to make the red Elixir.

[802] Take the White Stone and divide it into two parts; you will raise

one part to the state of the white Elixir, as has been said much earlier (of the kind of which you will have an indefinite amount). Put the other part in a new bed of the Philosophers, clean, tidy, transparent, spherical and place it in the furnace for digestion. Increase the fire until by its force and strength the matter is changed to a very red stone

~ Magnus, Albertus. Compound of Compounds. 13th Cen. Alchemical Tract

[785] We know that there are only two Stones, the white and the red.

~ Paracelsus, Theophrastus. The Aurora of the Philosophers. 1575 AD. Alchemical Tract

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[630] there is one Philosophers’ Stone, because there is one essence,

and one method, both in the red and white Medicine. The red Medicine is merely a further development of the white.

~ Bonus, Peter. The Epistle of Bonus of Ferrara. 14th Cen. Alchemical Tract

[629] From the one substance is evolved, first the White, and then the

Red Tincture; there is one vessel one goal, and one method.

[732] I knew a man says Gregory, who began the work in the right

way, and achieved the White Tincture; but when there was some delay about the appearance of the Red Colour, he gave up in despair, etc. This man knew the simple elements of our Art, their purification, commixtion, and the different signs which were to appear; he was ignorant only of the day and hour in which the conjunction of the simple elements and the completion of the work might be expected; and because he did not know what to do at the right time, the whole Magistery vanished from his sight. For the White Stone was net yet fixed, and, being exposed to too much heat, it evaporated.

~ Bonus, Peter. The New Pearl of Great Price. 1338 AD. Alchemical Tract

[8] Notwithstanding the philosophers have subtily delivered

themselves, and clouded their instructions with enigmatical and typical phrases and words, to the end that their art might not only be hidden and so continued, but also be had in the greater veneration. Thus they advise to decoct, to commix, and to conjoin, to sublime, to bake, to grind, and to congeal; to make equal, to putrefy, to make white, and to make red; of all which things, the order, management, and way of working is all one, which is only to decoct.

[12] The matters then of the white and red, among themselves, differ

not in respect to their essence; but for the red elixir needs more subtilization, and longer digestion, and a hotter fire in the course of the operation, than the white, because the end of the white work, is the beginning of the red work; and that which is complete in the one, is to be begun in the others.

~ Bacon, Roger (Pseudo). The Root of the World. 13-7th Cen. Alchemical Tract

[620] Now the whole magistery may be perfected, work, as in the

generation of man, and of every vegetable; put the seed once into the womb, and shut it up well. Thus you may see that you need not many things, and that this our work requires no great charges, for that there is but one stone, there is but one medicine, one vessel, one order of working, and one successive disposition to the white and to the red. And although we say in many places, take this, and take that, yet we understand, that it behoves us to take but one thing, and put it once into the vessel, until the work be perfected. But these things are so set down by obscure philosophers to deceive the unwary, as we have before spoken; for is not this "ars cabalistica" or a secret and a hidden art? Is it not an art full of secrets? And believest thou O fool that we plainly teach this secret of secrets, taking

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our words according to their literal signification? Truly, I tell thee, that as for myself, I am no ways self seeking, or envious as others are; but he that takes the words of the other philosophers according to their common signification, he even already, having lost Ariadne's clue of thread, wanders in the midst of the labyrinth, multiplies errors, and casts away his money for naught.

[811] This white substance, if you will make it red, you must

continually decoct it in a dry fire till it be rubified, or become red as blood, which is nothing but water, fire, and true tincture. And so by a continual dry fire, the whiteness is changed, removed, perfected, made citrine, and still digested till it become to a true red and fixed color. And consequently by how much more it is heightened in color, and made a true tincture of perfect redness. Wherefore with a dry fire, and a dry calcination, without any moisture, you must decoct this compositum, till it be invested with a most perfect red color, and then it will be the true and perfect elixir. ~ Artephius. The Secret Book of Artephius. 12th Cen. (?). Alchemical Tract

[836] almighty God together with this Universe, created two stones,

that is to say, the White and the Red, both which are under one and the same subject, and afterwards multiplied in such abundance, that everyone may take as much as he please thereof.

~ Anonymous. The True Book of the Learned Greek Abbot Synesius. 16-7th Cen. Alchemical Tract

[806] When the White Stone is accomplished, you must dissolve one

part of it, and so calcine it (as some will have it) by long decoction till it becomes like impalpable Ashes, so soft not to be touched, coloured Citrine. ~ Trevisan, Count Bernard. Verbum Dismissum. 15th Cen. Alchemical Tract

…… Commentary ……… While there is only one Stone, it is stable in two different forms: White or Red. It should be obvious that the forms are named after the colors that they appear.

The Red Stone is the one most usually mentioned and it is only this one that has the power to transmute metals into gold (by allowing them to develop to where they want to be according to their seed instruction.) The White Stone lacks this power and can only transmute metals into silver, which is almost gold but lacking the final step.