[perfi]gimur. Fire (Ignis), Air (Aër), and Water (Aqua) are the servants of Earth (Terra). Fire acts upon Air; this upon Water; this upon Earth. All together they moisten the Earth in certain places, just as we shall demonstrate more at length hereafter, beginning, with God’s kind favor, from the first Work of Creation (Opus Creationis), which we shall point out insofar as it is permitted to see it with the eyes and grasp it with the mind.

OF A CERTAIN ANONYMOUS PHILALETHA (Philaletha)

Verses concerning the medicine of the Third Order of GEBER (Geber).

If you have known the Ethereal Center, take the Center
Of the Ether, and seek the Surface of the Center.
Join the Surface to the Center: thus the Ether from on high
Shall flow down into the Earth: and the Earth shall seek the pole.
If you have multiplied this Bird of Hermes (Hermetis Avis) by Art,
You will be King of the entire Alchemical (Alchymicum) Secret.