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looked do vn upon by the ignorant, but held in great esteem by the Sages. Oh, how great is the sol ly, and horu great also is the
hecomes thicli, and is Coagulated, and then again illi it becomes red. Then it is red Da , and without this lead of the Sages nothing cara be effected. xvii. MUNDINUS : Learn, O imitators of this Art, that the philosophers have written Vari Ou Sty of many gums in their bookS, but the substance they refer to is nothing but fixedand living water, oui Os whicli alone Our nobi e Stone canbe prepared. Many Seek what they Cali the essential gum .' and cannot find it. I reveat uiato Xou the knowledge of
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the regulation of your fire by the gui lance os Nature. In the liquid there is first water, then a stone, then the earth of philosophers in whicli they Sow their grain, Whicli Springsup, and bears fruit after iis Lind. XXV. AGODIAS: Subjeci our earth to coction, tili ithecomes the firsi substance. Pound it to an impalpable clusi, and again encloso it in iis Vesset. Sprint te it with iis own moisturetili an union is effected. Then look at it Caresully, and is thewater PreSentS the appearance of , continue to pound and
Everything is generaled through our living and indestructi blewater. True Sages use nothing but this living water whicli
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tion, distillation, sublimation, desiccation, humectation, albesa tion. and rubrefaction, are ali included in the natural devel opinent
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XXX iv. BONELLUS : Ali ye lovers of this Art, I say unto 3 Ou, in faith and love: Relinquisti the multiplici ty of yourm Otho is and substances, sor our substance is one thing, and is called living and in destructi ble water. He that is led astray by many wOrdS, will know the persons against whom he should beon his guard. XXXV. HIERONYMUS : Malignant men have dari enedour Art, perverting it with many words ; they have called our Carth, and Our Sun. Or gold, by many misi eading nam es. Their Satting, dissolving, Subliming, growing, po unding, reducing to anacid. and white sulphur, their coction of the fiery Vapour, iis Coagulation, and transmutation into rest Sulphur, are nothing butdifferent aspects of one and the fame thing, whicli, in iis first Stage, Ne may describe as in combusti ble and indestructi bie
YYYvii. PYTHAGORAS, in his Eoui th Table, Says : Howwondei sui is the agreement of Sages in the m id si os differen cel They ali say that they have prepared the Sione Out of a Substance which by the vulgar is looked upon as the vilest thing onearth. Indoed, ii xve were to teli the vulgar herd the ordinary
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aster the Stone, who try, and va in ly try, Such a multiplici ty os substances and methods, that our Stone is One earth, and onesulphur, and that it gro S in abundance bes ore your very eyes ΘΙ wili teli 3 ou where vota may find it. The first spol is on the summit of two mountains ; the second, in ali motantains ; thethird, among the refuse in the Street the Murth, in the trees and metais, the liquid of whicli is the Stin and Moon, Mercury, Saturn, and Jupiter. There is but One VesSel, one method, and
the said Stone is born of the First Matter. The Sun is iis Father, the Moon iis Mother, the wind bears it in iis ivom b, and it is nursed by the earth. Itself is the Father of the wholeearth, and the whole potency thereos. Is it be transmuted in toearth, then the carth separates Dom the fire that whicli is most subile from that whicli is harii, operating gently and with great
artifice. Then the Stone ascend s from earth to heaven, and again descendS Dom heaven to earth, and receives the ChoiCest influen Ces of both heaven and earth. Is you Can persorin this
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Matter hicli God has created, and without which no One Canaitain the Art. Both these paris must be purified besore theyare joined together afresti. The body must heco me different, and so must the volatile spirit. Then you have the Medicine, whicli restores health, and imparis persection to ali things. The fi Xed and the volatile principi e must be joined in an inseparabie union, whicli defies even the destructive force of fire. Nili. LAMECH : In the Sione of the Philosophers are thefirst elemenis, and the final colours of minorais, or Sotai, Spirit, and Body, joined unto one. The Sion e whicli contains ait thesethings is called Zibeth, and the working of Nature has test itim pers CCt.
the water. For water dissolves the bo ly into spirit, and Sum mons the living Spirit frona among the dead. My son, deSpi Senot my Practical injunction. For it gives γ Ou, in a brief forna, everything that 3 Ou reatly need. X liv. ALEXANDER : The good need not re main Concealedon account of the bad men that might abuse it. Eor God rules over ali, according to His Divine Wili. Observe, ineres ore, thattho sali of the Stone is derived frona mercury, and is that Matter, most eYcellent of ali things, of which we are in Search. The sanae also contains in itseli ali secrets. Mercury is Our Stone, whicli is composed of the dry and the moist elements, whi Ch have been joined together by gentie heat in an inseparabie union. X lv. SENIOR teaches iis to malae the Salt out of ashes, and then, by Various processes, to Change it in to the Mercury of the
it is dissolved, the water that was coagulated in it bursis sortii. Thus the Stone is the extracted spirit of our in destructitile body.lt Contains mercury, or liquid water, in iis bOdy, Or fi Xed earth, whicli reta in s iis nature. This explanation is Sufficient ly plain.
Nivii. PAMPHILUS : The Salt of the Gem is that whicli is
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Uing AleXander, liken the union to that os a solat with iis hody. xlviii. DEMOCRITUS : Our Substance is the conjunctionos the dry and the moi St elements, whicli are separated by a VAPOUror heat, and then transmuted into a liquid like water, in x, hic hour Stone is iunci. For the Vapour unites to the most subile earththe most subile Air, and Contains ali the most subile elements. This firsi substance may be separatoci into water and earth, thel alter being perceptibi e to the eye. The earlli os the vapour is volatile when it ascend s, but it is found fi Xed when the separationtakeS Place, and when the elements are joined together again ithecomes fi Xed mercury. For the enjoyment of this, Hi S preci ous gist, ave SageS Ceaselessty prat se and bl ess God 's Holy Name. xlix. SIROS : The body of the Sages, being calcined, is called evertas ting water, whi Ch permanently CoagulateS Our Mercury. Anci is tho Body has been purified and dissolved, theu Dion is SO Close as to resi Si ali emoris at Separation. l. NOAH, the mari os God, writes thus in his Table: Mychild ren and brethren, know that no other stone is found in the worid that has more virtve than this Stone. No mortat mancata find the triae Art without this Stone. Blessed be the Godos Heaven who has created this property in the Sali, even in the
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liv. A NANI AS : Know, ye Scrutators os Nature, that fi reis the foui os everything, and that God Himself is fire an clsoul. And the body cannot livo without fire. For Nithout fire
the other elements have no efficacy. It is, there ire, a mOSt
i .e., Carth DOm water. ThuS Ne transmuto the corporeat nato the
Spiritual, and the spirituat in to the corporeat, the lowest in to thehighest, and the highest in to the lOwest.