Maybe you have not rated enough of the alchemist Bessler.
"Without such things as sulfur, salt, and mercury, all things will come to a standstill"
These words, written by Bessler, remind me Gurdjieff when he wrote :the law of three manifests as any real phenomenon to arise needs three forces or principles: active, passive and reconciling. So within an inertial system
it is necessary that there are three interacting systems: the system of levers, the system of cylinders, the system of springs.
bessler alchemist
Moderator: scott
re: bessler alchemist
Bessler could have been referring to his knowledge of medicinal preparations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spagyric
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spagyric
The three primal alchemical properties and their correspondence in spagyric remedy are:
Mercury = water elements, representing the life essence of the plant, the very alcohol extract of the plant is the carrier of the life essence.
Salt = earth element, representing the vegetable salts extracted from calcined ashes of plant body.
Sulphur = fire element, virtue of plant, representing the volatile oil essence of the plant.