Alphidius the Philosopher says:
There was a father who had a son who he loved very much.
The son said to his father, I would like to go out and see the world, then they will tell me about it great glory: At this the father was grieved and said:
If you, my most beloved son, want to leave me and drive away from me, then you will know when it will happen that I don't want to live without you.
Since the father saw that there was no other way, he gave the son a guide and asked him to lead him and also to go so that nothing bad would happen to him.
Then the leader took the son and led him with him into the whole wide world to the highest mountain of all and there the leader showed the son all the treasures and wealth of the world.
Now that the son had seen everything, he began and said to the leader, come and let us return, then I know that the father cannot live without us because of his great sadness, he has to die.
When they came back they found the father lying there dead they soon fell upon their father with crying eyes.
Then he soon came to life again and with great joy he received them and kept them with him, so they stayed with each other and became one.
This philosophical ability to compare and understand can be drawn from God the Father in the Holy Trinity or a person gifted with soul, spirit, flesh and blood.
This is how our material is also interpreted: Then it has ☿m, sulfur in it.
In the putrefaction, the corpus, that is the father, is mortified through the matter, so it separates and departs, the hidden son is the sulfur, the soul is the blood as the philosophical 🜂 Fire, the leader who is ☿us, as the spirit of the Breath smoke and the 🜄 water.
The world is the glass or instrument: the highest mountain is the Alembic, where all treasure and wealth lies.
That the Son sees that is the Father as the matter or the body or the salt and the dead earth remains in the ground: The leader as the ☿us has hidden in him the Son, that is the Sulphur, and the Animam:
These two are cold and warm, moist and truck 🜄 water and 🜂 fire, soul and spirit. As soon as they fall on the dead father, which is the dry earth Corpus, Sal, with their rain or tears, the dead father will in turn be refreshed and awakened by his own son and leader, and life will also be given to him and taken with great joy He takes them back to him and likes to keep them with him, and these three stay together in one form and never divorce &c.
To Trismegistus and King Benedict be praise and immortal glory.
Amen.
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“unlesse you change the bodies into no bodies, and the nobodies againe into bodies, you are not come yet to the right art, for the body becomes first an aqua Mercury incorporal and afterwards the Water and the Spirit in the changing and so both become one body; some also say change the natures quite and cleane and you will finde what you seeke; and that's true, for we make of that which is grosse a subtle and quick thing, and of a body we make water, and of that which is moist we make a dry thing, of the water we make the earth, and thus wee change the true natures and make of that which is corporall a spirituall thing and of a Spirituall a corporall thing, and wee make that which is above like that which is below, and that which is below like that which is above, the Spirit is turned to a body, and the body to a Spirit; and therefore its said in the beginning, the Word was a Spirit, and that word the Spirit was with God, that is with himselfe, and God was that word, he himself was the Spirit, and the word the Spirit was made flesh, the Spirit has assumed the true body, and so that above became true as that below, the Spirit has become a mettallick in the body, and that which was below, that is, the body, is become mettallicke with the Spirit”
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