(04-11-2024, 06:56 PM)Barbrey wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It was al-Razi (died 925), who added salt as body to mercury and Sulphur as mind and soul. Paracelsus read him widely
Maybe but the alleged transmission needed a published European translation and it is not explained in the book that the blog uses as source - John Eberly's Al-Kimia: The Mystical Islamic Essence of the Sacred Art of Alchemy (2004) how it may have happened.
Most of the Arabic alchemy books available in Europe (through Latin translations) were pseudoepigraphia, written (maybe) by followers of Geber (Jabir) and Rasis (Al-Razi) centuries after their deaths.

