Concerning the Material of the Stone - Anonymous

This anonymous treatise is the first copy of manuscript 3027 in the Arsenal Library. It is titled "On the Matter of the Philosopher's Stone in General." Mike Dickman translated it from French, and I am translating it into Spanish for the first time. The first time I read this text, it made me reflect at length on matter, which until then I suspected was common antimony, but I was wrong. As Fulcanelli and Basil Valentine rightly declared, the philosopher's stone is based on another matter, which is clearly indicated in this marvelous text. Because, you should know, the great difficulty in the Great Work lies in finding the right material, without which, as Bernardo Trevisano says, all effort is in vain, and one gets lost in the labyrinth of the laboratory with useless operations. The best example of this can be found in Trevisano's life and in my own, where I too wandered through dews, pyrites, parergons, oak ash, and a very long etcetera, but none brought me closer to the object of my desires, and I only wasted time and hope... As the author of the text says: 

 Thus, those who seek the material outside the metallic realm, and in a place other than metals, work fruitlessly and in vain. 

 

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