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The Great Art page 54This Radical Balm is the ferment of Nature, which is scattered through the whole mass ofindividuals. It is an ineffaceable tincture, which has the property of multiplying and which penetrateseven its grossest detritus, since one employs it successfully to manure lands and to increase theirfertility.One can rightly conjecture, that this basis, this root of the Mixts, which survives their destruction, isa part of the First Matter, the purest and indestructible portion stamped with the seal of Light fromwhich it received form. For the marriage of this First Matter with its form is indissoluble, and all theelements corporified as individuals derive their origin from it. Indeed was not such a matter necessaryto serve as the incorruptible basis, and as the cubic root to corruptible Mixts, to be able to be theirprinciple, constant, perpetual and yet material, around which would turn continually the vicissitudesand changes which material beings experience daily?If one was permitted to conjecture and to penetrate the obscurity of the future, would one not saythat this unalterable substance is the foundation of the material world, and the ferment of itsimmortality, by means of which it will exist even after its destruction, after having passed through thetyranny of fire, and after having been cleansed of its original defects, in order to be renewed and tobecome incorruptible and unalterable for all eternity?It seems that Light has as yet worked only upon it, and that it has left the rest in shadows. So itpreserves always a spark of it, which it is only necessary to excite.But the Innate Fire is very different from Moisture. It partakes of the spirituality of Light, and theHumid Radical is of a nature midway between the extremely subtle and spiritual matter of Light, andgross, elementary, corporeal matter. It partakes of the nature of both, and connects these twoextremes. It is the seal of the visible and palpable treaty of light and shadows; the point of union andof commerce between the Heavens and the Earth.Thus one cannot, without error, confound this Humid Radical with Innate Fire. The latter is theinhabitant, the former the habitation, the dwelling. It is, in all the Mixts, the laboratory of Vulcan; thehearth on which is preserved that immortal Fire, the prime-motor created from all the faculties ofindividuals; the universal Balm, the most precious Elixir of Nature, the perfectly sublimated Mercuryof Life, which Nature distributes by weight and measure to all the Mixts. He who will know how toextract this treasure from the heart, and from the hidden center of the productions of this lower world,to despoil it of its thick elementary shell, which conceals it from our eyes; and to draw it from thedark prison in which it is enclosed and inactive, may boast of knowing how to make the mostprecious MEDICINE to relieve the human body.Of the Harmony of the UniverseThe superior and inferior bodies of the World having the same source, and the same matter as aprinciple, have preserved a sympathy which causes that the purest, the noblest, the strongest,