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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“Our dissolving water therefore carries with it a great tincture, and a great melting or dissolving; because that when it feels the vulgar fire, if there be in it the pure and fine bodies of sol or luna, it immediately melts them, and converts them into its white substance such as itself is, and gives to the body color, weight, and tincture. In it also is a power of liquefying or melting all things that can be melted or dissolved; it is a water ponderous, viscous, precious, and worthy to be esteemed, resolving all crude bodies into their prima materia, or first matter, viz. earth and a viscous powder; that is into sulphur, and argentum vivum. If therefore you put into this water, leaves, filings, or calx of any metal, and set it in a gentle heat for a time, the whole will be dissolved, and converted into a viscous water, or white oil as aforesaid. Thus it mollifies the body, and prepares for liquefaction; yea, it makes all things fusible, viz. stones and metals, and after gives them spirit and life. And it dissolves all things with an admirable solution, transmuting the perfect body into a fusible medicine, melting, or liquefying, moreover fixing, and augmenting the weight and color.”
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