The Philosopher's Stone

Hermetic alchemists said that all metals and minerals evolved out of a slimy substance in the earth. That slimy substance is the physical manifestation of the original non physical erchaos, they say. If you want to make the philosopher's stone, what you have to do is take a particular substance, a crude matter you can find in the earth, and you have to reverse engineer it back to that slimy substance, or back to its chaos.