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Let my Diend know that no impure or spolied things areuseful sor our purpose. Eor there is nothing in their leprous nature Capable Os ad van Cing the interesis of our Art. There is
much more likelthood of that whicli is in iiself good being spolied by that whicli is impure. Everything that is obtained from the
I et the diadem of the King be of pure gold, and let the
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matter, a fres h Supply of blood, a Strengthening os the heari andos ali the vitais, and a permanent bracing of every limb. For ito pens ali the pores, and through them bears away ali that prevenis the perfeci health of the body, but alloius ali that is beneficiat to rem ain therein uiam OleSted. But let my frien d be scrupulousty Caresul to preServe theiuntain of lis e limpid and clear. I f any strange water be mi Xed with it, it is spolied, and becomes positive ly injurious. Is it stili rotain any of the solvent whicli has been used sor iis dissolution
3 Ou mu Si Care fully purge it Off. For no corrosive can be of thel east use for the prevention Os internat diseases. When a tree is found to bear Sohar and ianwholeso me fruit, iis branches must be Cut os , and scions os beller trees gras tedupon it. The new branches thereupon beCO me organi Cally uni ted
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hut not one of them eXactly like another, and each designed soritS Own Spectat purpose. Knoo that when the moisture of theearth ascend S in the form os a Vapour, it is condensed in the Upper region S, and precipituted to the earth by iis own weight Thus the earth regains the moisture of whicli it had been depri Ved, and receives Strongili to put fortii buds and herbs. In the Same Way you must repeated ly distit the water whicli 3 ou have extracted fro in the earth, and then again restore it to YOurearth, as the water in the Strait of Euripus frequently leaves the Stiore, and then Covers it again tantii it arrives at a Certain limit. When thus the palace has been constructed by the hands of many CrastSmen, and the sea of glasS has absolved iis Course, and
enter, and take hi S seat iapon the throne.
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and boco me invisibie, and then again re over his visibi e form with a diminution of his simple esse iace, and a devel opinent os his persection. A patiater Can Set yellow upOn white, and red or crim sonu pon yello v : sor, though ali these colourR are present, yet thelat ter prevatis on account of iis greater intens ity. When you ave accompli Shed the Same thing in Our Art, you have bes ore your eyes the light of wisclom, which shines in the dari ness, although it cloes not burn. For our Sulphur dOes not buria, butiaevertheless iis brilli ancy is seen far and near. Nor cloes it colour anything tantii it has been prepared, and dyed with iis own cotur, Whicli it then imparis to ait weali and impersectmetal S. This Sulphur, hou ever, Cannot impari thi S colour uiatilit have first by persevering labour been prevalled upon to abjure iis original colour. Eor the weal er cloes not overcOme thestronger, but has to yield the victory to it. The gist of the whole matter lies in the faci that the smali and weali cannot aid that whicli is itself smali and weal , and a Combusti ble substance Cannot shield another substance Dom combustion. That whichis to protect another substance against combustion must itselfbe fas e from clanger. The lalter must be Stronger than thes Ormer, that is to Say, it must itSelf be essentialty in combusti ble. He, thon, who wOuid prepare the in combustibi e sulphur of the Sages, muSt lGOk sor Our sulphur in a substance in V hicli it is in combusti ble hicli can only be aster iis hody has been absorbed by the sali sea, and again rejected by it. Then it muSt be So eXalted as io Ahine more brightly than ali the stars of heaven, and in iis essen ce it must nave an abundan Ce os blood, like the fclican, which wouncis iis Own breast, and , without any diminution os iis strengili, nourishes and rearS up many FOUngones with iis biood. This Tincture is the Rose of our Masters of purple hue, called also the red blood of the Dragon, or thepurple Cloah many times solded with whicli the Ouden of Salvation i S covered, and by whi Ch ali metals a re regeneraled in Colour. Caresully preserve this splendid manile, together u illi theastrat salt whicli is joined to this sulphur, and SCreens it Dom
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Out os stones the master alSO prepares lime by burning whicli is very uses ut sor our 'Ork. But be fore they are prepare lwith fire, they are mere Sion eS. The Stone must be maturedand rendered servent with fire, and then it hecomes so potentiliat se v things are tO be compared to the fiery spirit os lime.
know how to find this spirit, you have the Salt of the Sages, and the in combustibio oti, concerning whicli many things have been
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The qui chening po er of the earili produces ali things that grow sortii froni it, and he who says that the ear th has no lis emat es a statem ent xviii Ch is flat ly contradicted by the most ordinary facis. Forwhat i S dead cannot produce life and growth seeing that it is devo id of the qui chening spirit. This spirit is the life and foui that dweli in the earth, and are nourished by heavenly and sidereat influenCeS. Eor ali herbs, treeS, and rOOtS, and ali metals and minerais, receive their growth and nutriment frona the spirit of the earth whicli is the spirit os lis . This spiritis iiseis sed by the stars, and is thereby rendered Capable Os imparting nutriment to ali thingS that grow, and of nursing them asa mollier cloes her child while it is 3 et in the womb. The minerat sare hidden in the womb of the earth, and nourished by her xvith
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one another u illi a great Ahock and noise, and circle in the air so that no one can know Or say whither they go, unieSS the Same has been asCertained by CYperien Ce as to the mode in Whichthese Spirites manifestKnow then, gentie Reader, that life is the only true spirit, and that that whicli the ignorant herd loOlc upon as dead maybe brought bach to permanent, visibio, and spiritual lise, is butthe spirit be restored to the body the spirit whicli is supported
himself. I however, he tru to toti ch it. he will find that it is notpalpabie, and that he has laid his hanci upon the mirror only. In the Same way, the spirit whicli must bo evolved frona this Matter is Visi ble, but not palpabie. This spirit is the root of theli se of our bodies, and the Mercury of the Philosophers, fromu hicli is prepared the liquid water of our Art the water WhichmUSt On CC more receive a materiai sorna, and bo recti fied by means
of certa in puris ying agenis in to the most perfeci Medicine. Forwe begin with a firm and palpabie body, whicli SubsequentlybeComes a volatile spirit, and a goiden water, Without any COn- VerSion, frona whi Ch our Sages derive their principi e of lis e. Ultimate ly we obta in the in destructibi e medicine of human and metallic bodies, whicli is fitter to be known to angeis than tomen, excepi su Ch as Seeli it at God 's hancis in heartseli prayer, and give genuine proosse of their gratitude by Service rendered toHim, and to their needy ne ighbOUr. Hereunto I may add, in conclusion, that one WOrk is devel-