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Updated: May 3, 2025
Johann Isaak Hollandus, is not to be understood of common lead ... but of the lead of the philosophers.” And in Hollandus himself we read: “In the name of God, Amen.—My child, know that the stone called the Philosopher’s Stone comes from Saturn. There is none so poor in this world that he cannot operate and promote this work.
The publisher of the English translation of J. I. Hollandus, which is dated 1670, addresses the reader as follows: “Kind reader, the philosophers have written much about their lead, which as Basilus has taught, is prepared from antimony; and I am under the impression that this saturnine work of the present philosopher, Mr.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. The alchemists speak of men very often as of metals. The writing of Hollandus could quite as well be called a treatise on mankind as on lead.
The latter was an apt scholar, and made great progress. By chance the work of Isaac Hollandus fell into his hands, and from that time he became smitten with the mania of the philosopher's stone. All his thoughts henceforth were devoted to metallurgy; and he travelled into Sweden that he might visit the mines of that country, and examine the ores while they yet lay in the bowels of the earth.
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