Rohstein Amethyst (3-6 cm) - 1x Stück

Anthracitis vocatus quod sit et ipse coloris ignei ut carbunculus, sed candida vena praecinctus; cuius proprium est quod iactatus igni velut intermortuus extinguitur, at contra aquis perfusus exardescit.

The Philosophers take for example an Egg, for in this the four elements are joined together. The first or the shell is Earth, and the White is Water, but the skin between the shell and the White is Air, and separates the Earth from the Water; the Yolk is Fire, and it too is enveloped in a subtle skin, representing our subtle air, which is more warm and subtle, as it is nearer to the Fire, and separates the Fire from the Water. In the middle of the Yolk there is the Fifth Element, out of which the young chicken bursts and grows.

Diser fürwar ist alwegen in der zal der fürträfflichsten schmelzern gehalten worden, welcher die vier element recht kündte vermischen. Er wirt sie aber als dann recht vermischen, so er nicht mehr des ärtzes, das mitt der erden teil hatt, dann es sich gebüret, in ofen wirffet: der da wasser, so offt es die noth erfordert, hinein geusset: der den blasz der belgen mitt kunst regiert: der in das feur, an welchem teil es hell brennet, das ärtz wirffet.

Ἀλλὰ καὶ λίθους ἔστιν ἰδεῖν ταῖς τῶν φωστήρων ἀπορροίαις ἐμπνέοντας, […]

Quaeris causam miraculi, sedet in ea gemma multiplex viriditas, quasi corticatim, altera sub altera latitante.

For the formation of the flesh is on and about the bones, which in the bodies of animals resemble stones.

Sua nempe duritia, vestigia quoque donaque vitae mundanae post evulsionem diutissime continent, quae quondam haerentia terrae possederant.

[…] which cannot be spoken without admiration, that in a dead stone there should be a living vertue to move it self: who is there, unless he try it, that will believe these things?

[…] it imparts soul to things inanimate, motion to things immoveable […]

Many of the young sort, being of greater courage, seemed as though they wished to go out of the circle, but were prevented by the workmanship which set a band of gold in the manner of a wall about the rock and them.

Et primo quidem in lapidibus omnes boni Geometrae partes explevit, […]

Lapis iste vel hoc lignum mihi lumen est […]