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The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus

Paracelsus (Philippus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim) · written 1520s–1541; collected in English 1894

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Waite's two-volume English collection of the Paracelsian corpus, whose appendix on the three prime essences states the doctrine of salt, sulphur and mercury directly.

The source for the three principles, which is where alchemy's older pair of principles becomes a three.

Cited for 3 sourced claims here, among them correspondences of Mercury, Salt and Sulphur.