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225 ali the Sages, but not plainly enough sor the uia initialed en-quirer. For such an ono knowS nei ther the substance nor iis
planation of the S ing of Lucas. By the living water of the Moon this Sage means Our vater, whicli is two ld. The distilled water is the Moon ; the Stin, or fire, is hid len in it, and is the Father of ali things.
Herace it is compare i to a man, beCause the Stin is in the water.
hidden in the water. It is the water of the Moon, beCause the Sun is the Father and the Moon the Mother. Heiace, alSO, thctyare regarded as hvsband and wis . The Hody is the Moon, or Mother, and the distilled water, Or male Principio, riSOS UP-ward froni the earth ; and for that reason is somelimes called Moon. For it is the water of the Moon, or Bocly. It has testthe Body, and must enter it again bes ore our Art can beperfected. Hence the Body, Or Moon, has weli been designated the semale principie, and the water, Or Sura, the male princi Ple,sor reasOns whi Ch have been set sorti, at longili in this book. Again, When the Sage says, ' Coagulate ii aster oursashion, those last three worcis mean that the bOdy must receive iis spirit to drinii gradually, and litile by litile, untii it recoversiis lis , and health, and stren th, whicli tal es place by means Ofthe fame gentie heat whicli digesis Mod in the stomach, and matures fruit in iis place. Eor it is our Custom to eat, cirin k, aud live in gentie warmth. By this regimen Our bocly is preserved, and ali that is Qui and unprofitable is driven out frontour bocly. Accor ling to the Same faShion Os gentie Coction, allthat is fetid and black is gradually purged out of Our Stone. For u heia the Sage says after our fashion, he wishes to leachyoti that the preparation of the Sione bears a strici analogyio the processes of the human bocly. That the chemicat de-Velopinent of our substance is internat, and caused by the operation os Nature and of iis sour elemenis, the Sage indicates P
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Expositiona of the Saring of Ethelius.
truo Sulphurs and their mutuat preservation, he means that though, aster the Separation of Spirit and bocly, there Seem to bet O SUbStan CeS, yet, in reali ty, therct i S only one SubStance SO
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two sulphurs in the body, the red and the white, and the white sulphur is in the blach body, while the red is hid beneath it. Is the spirit is gradually addecl to the bo ly, it is enti rely coagulated in to the body, sulphur is ad ded to sulphur, and persection is attaine i through the fitness whicli exi sis belween them. Thebody receives nothing but iis o via spirit : sor it has retained iis soli l, and what has been eXtra ted froni a body can be joined tonothing but that sanae body. The spirit deligitis in nothing SOmuch as in iis own Aoul, and iis own bocly. Hence the Sage says heia the spirit has been restored to the body, the Sulphur to the sulphur, and the water to the earth, and ali hasbeCOme white, then the bo ly retains the spirit, and there Can ben O further separation. V Thus you have the weli purged earth of the Sages, in Whi Ch we SON Our gratia, urito infinity, that it may
bring sortii much fruit. Explanatio/r of the SaFing of 'thagor .
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Explanation of the finieraM Tabia os Hermes. Hermes is right in saying that our Art is true, and has been rightly han ded do via by the Sages ; ali dotabis concerning it have
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perhaps be possibi e to resolve ali things. Iis development is brought abolat hy the distillation of the Sun and Moon. For itis operated upora by the natural heat of the Stin and Moon, whicli StirS up iis internat action, and multiplies each thing after iis
tains the sotir elements ; it is brought sortii by two things, thebody and the spirit; the winci bears it in iis womb, sor it
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fother Stone but the one demanded by this Magiste , his
Heiace it is well, though somewhat enigmaticalty said by the Sages, that there tal es place a Conjugal union os hvsband an d
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the earth, whicli Seed we remove by Nature, and puris y and prepare it by Art, mal ing it so glorious, and fuit of wonclers ulpotenCy, that with it we Can impari instant purity and persectionto the imperfeci bodies of men and metales. This Seed we must OXtraCt from Pori Ct, pure, and mature bodies, is we would attain the destred end. NON, in ordor that yOu may the more reaclilyattain this knowledge, I have composed the following Tractconcerning the firSt principio Os Nature, and the creation and generation of man whi Ch the Student of Our Magistery should
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to realige the omnipotence of the Creator by the contemplationof the Secret powers, and miraculous Viriues, which He has insu sed into natural things. They were led to consider how they mightemploy their knowledge sor the good of the humata race, and howthey might reveni it to Others, and they received wisclom to eX-pound the first principies of natural things, but more espectat lythe birili and cleath of mari, in something like the solio ving way : In the beginning God created ali things out os a subile liquid, or