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Turba Philosophorum

The Thirty-First Dictum
Alchemical trans. Arthur Edward Waite • c. c. 12th century (Waite translation 1896)
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Pythagoras saith:—How does the discourse of Bacsen appear to you, since he has omitted to name the substance by its artificial names? And they: Name it, therefore, oh Pythagoras! And he: Corsufle being its composition, they have applied to it all the names of bodies in the world, as, for example, those of coin, copper, tin, gold, iron, and also the name of lead, until it be deprived of that colour and become Ixir. The Turba answereth: Thou hast spoken well, O Pythagoras! And he: Ye have also spoken well, and some among the others may discourse concerning the residual matters.