“Therefore, as Aristoteles Chyrricus rightly says: ‘Divide your Stone into the four elements, rectify them, and join them into One, and you will have the whole magistery.’ This One, into which the elements must be reduced, [...] is the mediator, making peace between enemies, that is, the elements, so that they may agree and be converted into one another and love one another; indeed this alone accomplishes the squaring of the circle, long sought by many, found by few. For with its rays it strikes all the angles of the elements, and by a long revolution it turns this angular, ‘quadrate’ form into a circular form conformed to itself—enough on this.” - Excerpt from the Hermetis Trismegisti Tractatus vere Aureus cum scholiis (1610):