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A noth r Descriptioni V our Stone.
of the whole Art, and , as it were, iis Key, without xviii Ch no oneis able ei ther to lock Or unlock iis Secret en trance. No man canunderstand this Art who does not know the Sali and iis preparation, Whi Ch takes place in a convenient spol that is both mois tand warm: there the dissolution os iis liquid must be accomp
Fire coagulates, and itS nature iS hot, dry, and penetratin g, evenurato the inmost pari. ItS property is to beCOme whi te even asthe Sun and the Moon with the variations in the extremes of fire, to wit, of the natural fi re, While the Sun restores redi ess and the Moon whiten ess, and brings hodies to their spiritual conditionat the fame time that it removes their blachness and had sulphur. With it bodies are calcined it is the secret of the red and white tincture, the foundation and root of ali things, and thebest os ali created things after the rational Aoul of man. For no Stone in the whole wOrid has a greater em Cacy, nor Can Anychild of this earili find the Art without this Stone. Blessed be
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God in heaven, who hath created this Art in Sali sor the transmutation os ali things, secing that it is the quin tesse iace inhicli is above ali things, and in ali things. God Most High has noton ly from Heaven bl essed creatures in this sashion, but prat se,
in this Sali. He who can dissolve and coagulate it, is wellacquainted with the arcana of this Art. Our Sali is found in acerta in preci ous Sali, and in ali things. On this account theancient Sages called it the 'COmmon moon, because ali men nee lit. Is you would become ricli, prepare this Sali tili it is renderedSweet. No Other Salt is So permanent, Or has Such pOwer to fix the Sotai,'' and to resist fire. The Salt of the earili is the foui : it coagulates ali things, is in the naidst of the earth when the earthis destroyed : nor is there anything on the earth like iis tincture. It is called Rebis Two-thing), is a Stone, Salt, one bOdy, and , tothe majori ty Os mani in d; a vile and a despi sed thing. Vet it purifieq and restores bodies. represenis the Key of Our xvhole Art, and ali things a re sum med up in it. Only iis entering in is sos ubile that sew perceive it: 3 et is it enter a bocly, it tinges it an dbrings it to persection. What then should you des ire of God butthis Sali and the ingression thereos Θlf a maia lived a hundred thousand years, he could neversum ciently marvel at the wonder fui manner in whicli this nobi e
with in iiself the Mur elements. It is, in deed, nothing Shori Ofma rvellous that SO many see k so ordinary a thing, and yet areunable to find it e might put do via many Other Characteristi CSof this Sali; but I preser to leave the further elaboration of this Subject to the reader, and to confine mySeis to a more delati ed
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account of iis fruits, enti ance, and lise, os the mode os opening the garden, and catching a glimpse of the glorious roses, os theway in whicli they multiply, and bear fruit a thousand- id ; alsolio v you may Caia Se the dead bOdy to re-appear, and to be rai sed again to immortal lisse, by the power of whicli it may be able toenter imperi Ct bodies, purisy them, and bring them to persection, anu to a State os immutabie permanen Ce.
I now propose to speak of the Sione under three a,pecis, UiZ., RS the Vegetabie, the animal, and the minerat Sione ; an damong theSe again, of the one whi Ch contains those Murelements that impari ii se to ali. Place this One substance in anair-tight alembic, and treat it according to the precepis of our Art, which we shali set sortii surther on. Then the so ving in thefie id can talae place, and you obta in the Minerat Stone, and the Green Lion that imbibes Ao much of iis own Spirit. Thenti se returias to iis spirit through the alembic, and the deadbody lies at the bottom of the vesset. In the lalter there are
than that the ashes are burned in the fi re itself, and the
may be weli mi Xed. You must seu 3 ourself what is best to hedone aster this: for I cannot give 3 Ou any further information atPrOSent. Sun and Moon must have intercourse. like that of aman and wOrnan : Otherwi Se the object of our Art cannot beatia in ed. All other teaching is false and erroneotis. Thin kupon this Sali as the triae Mundation of our Art ; for iis Worthout ei glis ali the treas ures of this worid. Itself is not developedinto the tincture, but the tincture must he ad ded to it. Nor is the substance of our Art Mund in any metal. Another Description of the Matur and the Metho Γν Senior. Natural things, according to this Sage, are those which have been generaled and produced out os a natural substance by a natural method. No v in iis firSt, Or lunar, stage, Our Stone i S
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prepared in the right way, it is a pearl without price, and , in deed, the earthly antitype of Christ, the heavenly Corner Stone. AsChrist was despi sed and rejected in this world by the peo ple of
the Je S, and neverthel ess was more preci ous than heaven an d
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into it by the ari os the Master and the qui chening spirit os fire. Thanks be uiato God there ire in ali time. The Stin is iis Father, the Moon iis Mother. Is 3 ou have those two spiriis, they bring sortii the Stone whicli is prepared out of One part of Sulphur, or Sun, and Mur
Conce=ning the Fint Matur, or Seed of the uetati, includine that of the Hurbanae, anes that of the Sponse.
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bear fruit astor their kind. Is itfel f be cast into meta is, it ischanged in to that whicli is best, vi g., Sun and Moon. This is
A Simple Account of the True Art. ACcording to the Sages, no body is clissolved without thecoagulation Os the spirit. For as Soon as the spirit is transmuted
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os instructing, admonishing, warning, and informing 3 Ou as tothe substance, the method, the pit salis to be avoided, and theon ly way os understanding the writings of the Sages. For asAlmighty God has created ali things out of the dry and thelium id elementS, our Art, by divine grace, may be said to purSue