Peter Bonus

PETER BONUS The New Pearl of Great Price (Mr. A. E. Waite s translation, p. 

In 1546, a work was published entitled Magor/to Pretiosa, which claimed to be a "faithful abridgement," by "Janus Ladnus Therapus, the Calabrian," of a MS. written by Peter Bonus in the fourteenth century. An abridged English translation of this book by Mr. A. E. Waite was published in 1894. Of the life of Bonus, who is said to have been an inhabitant of Pola, a seaport... 

Says Peter Bonus, however,"... we know that the generation of metals occupies thousands of years. .. in Nature s workshop. .." (see The New Pearl of Great Price, Mr. A. E. Waite s translation, p. 55), and certain others of the alchemists expressed a similar view. 

Hence in the sublimation we are said by Peter Bonus to have the creation of a soul, through the mediation of the spirit, rising heavenward with the latter, while in the coagulation which follows they arc permanently fixed. 

Petrus Bonus, Margarita, 59, note at bottom. This passage could be a later gloss, but it is certainly written in the spirit of Peter s text. The concept that different regions lead to different accidents is elaborated on p. 71. 

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