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A DE ONSTRA TION OF NATURE. 135
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A DE ONSTRATION OF NATURE. 137
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SenSe, and that Such men are only decet Ving themselves and otherS. I am also aware that Only God can produce anything out os the elements. He alone knows how to mingle and combine themin their clue proportions. FOr He alone is the Creator and
Author of ali good things, and there is nothing in the worid that
Cinationes, Sublimations, distillations, by whicli they eXtraci thespirit in a vaporous forin, and of their juggling Coagulations and Congelati OnS, by Whicli they preterad, even among the initialed, tobe able rightly to separate the elements of gold and qui Cl silver. It is certainly true that ali things under heaven are Composed Osthe Mur elemenis, and nixed of them aCCording to the due proportion of their genus and Species ; but it is not simply the unionos the four elemenis, but their being combined in a Certain way, whicli constitutes the substance of the Philosophical Stone. I also understand that in the red quici silver and persectbody, whicli is called the Sun, the Mur elements are Combined in
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then he dissolves Anything into iis elementS, how, Ι Pray thee, is he to put them together again into any abiding s Orm, Sincelle is ignorant of their proportionate quantity and quali ty, and of the method of their composition Θ Vet it is of no use to
to the alchemist. We must remember that Alchemy has athree ld aim: First, to qui Chen and persect the metal, and so to digest iis spirit that none of it is tost; SeConclly, so to digest anil heat the substance in a smali phial that
Spirit are changed into One. The mingling of the elements is
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sor that purpose ; it sussices that the generating spirit shali gos orth with the seed, and be conceived by the se male seed, and chorished with iis Narnith. Such a generating Spirit has po ver
it is the fame with pure gold, whicli is the true matter of the Philosophical Stone. For the fallier is the active principie, and must not he deStroyed, or resolved into iis elemenis, but it is sufficient sor the paternat Sun gold) to breathe iis virtve and strength through the mollier into the Son. When the mother ivlio is of the earth) brings fortit, the son is seen to have the
In future, Ι will read thy book more diligently, and obey
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HE that would undet stand the whole Subject os metales,
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Such as to prove that it is nothing but the head of the dragonwhicli is leaving Babylon in great haste, even the philosophical Babylon whicli is encompassed by a double Or trebie VOSSel. Other Sages have likened this Mercury to a flying Lion,
strengiliens himself at will with the bl ood os ali animais except
im persect metat, not villistanding that there is in it the substance of persection. Common gold, whi Ch is a per Ct metal, and Silver, and ali the imperfeci metais, are devel Oped Out Os
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manent gratias, at least, os gold and silver. The first coagulationos mercury is lead, whicli is most sui table sor fiXing it, and bringi nil it to porsection. For lead is neve r without some fi Xed gratia os gold and silver, whicli are impa ted to it by Nature sorthe purpose of multiplication and developinent, as I myselfhave CX perien Ced, and am able to testis v. So long as it is in
iis mercury, and not Separated Dorn iis minerat, it Can Continueto increase iis substance from the substance Os iis mercury.
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plucked ofs besore it is ripe, it can come to nothing. Is it istest on the tree, it is nourished and increased by the sap and the juice of the parent Stem, and thus gradu atly atta in s to iis proper Sige, and to maturi ty. Eut, tantii ripe ness has been attained, the fruit continues to attraci to iis etf the sap and juice of the tree, that is to say, So long as the Connection with the parent tree is