The stone of the philosophers emerging from the earth is raised or perfected in the fire. Drunk from the beverage of very clear water, at least in twelve hours, visibly swells everywhere. After putting in an oven of moderately hot & dry air, & purified of strange vapor, acquires solidity in its parts: & exhausted of superfluous humor, becomes suitable to break. This done, from its purest parts is squeezed out the virginal milk: which immediately put into the egg of the philosophers, is so long heated, by continual & own heat, as to hatch & brood chicks, that being devoid of the variety of her colours, rejoices with her like in whiteness of snow: & henceforth without danger resists the forces of increasing fire, till being dyed a color of crimson, she comes forth from the monument with regal power.
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“avoid all things which vanish in or will not endure the fire, because from these adjustible, perishing or consuming things, you can never attain to the perfect matter, which is only found in the digesting of your water, extracted from sol and luna. For by this water, color, and ponderosity or weight, are infinitely given to the matter; and this water is a white vapor, which like a soul flows through the perfect bodies, taking wholly from them their blackness, and impurities, uniting the two bodies in one, and increasing their water. Nor is there any other thing than Azoth, to wit, this our water, which can take from the perfect bodies of sol and luna, their natural color, making the red body white, according to the disposition thereof.”
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