43. Yet the Authority of those who assert this being so great and incontestable, it cannot well be called in question.
44. What therefore the Philosophers meant by this Stone which Adam brought with him out of Paradise, is well worthy our Enquiry.
45. The Philosophers commonly say our stone is a stone and nostone, &c. which implies thus much, that to outward view it is a stone, but in deed and in vertue, a Concentrate form of Sol.
46. Wherefore Petrus Bonus saith, We do not seek Sol, but the form of Sol.
47. What is then properly this form of Sol?
48. Answ. It is a substance which to outward view looks like a contemptible stone, and yet is of such superlative Vertue, that when joyned with imperfect metals on the Fire, it transmutes them into the highest perfection of Sol.
49. It may further be demanded, whether Adam brought such a matter with him out of Paradise, whereby this transmutation of metals into Sol may be performed?
50. Ans. Yes he did bring such a matter with him out of Paradise, and after death took it with him to his Grave, wherewith all Diseases of mankind may be cured, and all metals changed into the finest Sol.
51. If this be so, might some say, Adam must either have been very blind, in not discerning the Treasure he was possessed of; or very envious in not communicating the same to his Posterity.
52. I cannot believe that Adam, out of envy withheld this secret from his Children, but rather suppose that the blindness into which his fall had cast him, was the cause of his not percieving the great Jewel he had about him.