Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

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Thank you Vviews, I had understood "lapis" so far only on the material level, that is to say
lapis was the final product of the processing of a starting material (materia prima). This product should consist in the end of a substance which can transmute base metals into higher metals but also be used as a universal remedy. So, according to this definition, it is a substance and not an element, but in alchemy it is sometimes called "Quinta Essentia" ( "the five times extracted power of a substance" ).
All this, of course, refers only to the so-called "outer alchemy " not to the inner.