"Materia prima or 'first matter' is the ubiquitous starting material required for the alchemical magnum opus. The primitive formless base of all matter, the quintessence or aether. "

"They have compared the "prima materia" to everything, to male and female, to the hermaphroditic monster, to heaven and earth, to body and spirit, chaos, microcosm, and the confused mass; it contains in itself all colors and potentially all metals; there is nothing more wonderful in the world, for it begets itself, conceives itself, and gives birth to itself."

• Paul Kugler. The Alchemy of Discourse: Image, Sound and Psyche.

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