If anyone would grow metals, he must first learn the secrets of the metals: he must realize that all metals—like all stones, plants, animals, and universes—grow from seeds, and that these seeds are already in the body of Substance(the womb of the World Virgin); for the seed of man is in the universe before he is born (or grows), and as the seed of the plant exists for all time though the plant live but a part of that time, so the seeds of spiritual gold and material gold are ever present in all things. The metals grow throughout the ages, because life is imparted to them from the sun. They grow imperceptibly, in form like tiny shrubs, for everything grows in some way. Only the methods of growth differ.











