The worcher forsoth of all myracles is the one and sool God, of and fro Whom Cometh all meruelous operacions.
So all thynges were created of o soole substance, and of o soole disposicion, the fader wherof is the sone, and the moone moder, that brought hym forth by blast or aier in the wombe, the erthe taken fro it, to whom is seid the increat fader, tresour of myracles, and yever of vertues.
Of fire is made erthe. Depart the erthe fro the fire, for the sotiller is worthier than the more grosse, and the thynne thynge than the thik. This most be do wisely and discretly.
It ascendith fro the erth into the heven, and falleth fro heven to the erthe, and therof sleith the higher and the lower vertue.
And yf it lordship in the lower and in the heigher, and thow shalt lordship aboue and beneth, which forsoth is the light of lightes, and therfor fro the wolle fle all derknesse.
The higher vertue ouer-cometh all, for sothe all thynne thyng doth in dense thynges.
After the disposicion of the more world rynneth this worchyng.
And for this prophetisyng of the trynyte of God Hermogenes it called Triplex, trebil in philosophie, as Aristotle seith.
Chaucer? (Same linguistic period, at least...)
The above quotation describes Iwamura's experiments most excellently!
Thank you for the entire citation! Much relevance there...