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IV. On decoction The process of heating or boiling a substance to extract its essence and its effect. 282
1.V. On the Thinning, Solution, Coagulation, and Mixing of the stone, and their cause and purpose. ibid.
VI. On the Fixing of the spirit. 284
10VII. On the decoction, grinding, and washing of the stone. 285
VIII. On the quantity of fire, and its benefit and disadvantage. ibid.
IX. On the separation of the Elements of the stone. 286
X. On the nature of the stone, and its origin. 287
XI. On the mixing of the separated Elements. ibid.
XII. On the solution of the composite stone. 288
XIII. On the coagulation of the dissolved stone. 289
XIV. That there is only one stone, and on its nature. 290
XV. The method of operating the stone for the white work The albedo phase, creating silver. 291
XVI. The conversion of the aforesaid stone into the red work The rubedo phase, creating gold. 293

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. 294

OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE contained in the exposition by Hortulanus Hortulanus, or "The Gardener," was a 14th-century commentator on Hermetic texts.

The Prayer of Hortulanus. 295
Preface. ibid.
I. That the art of Alchemy is true and certain. 296
II. That the stone must be divided into two parts. ibid.
III. That the stone has within itself the four elements. ibid.
IV. That the stone has a father and a mother, namely the Sun and the Moon. 297
V. That the joining of the parts of the stone is called impregnation. ibid.
VI. That the stone is perfect if the soul has been fixed in the body. 298
VII. On the purification of the stone. 299
5VIII. That the part of the stone not fixed must overcome the fixed part of the stone and raise it up. ibid.
IX. How the volatile stone is to be fixed again. 300
X. On the fruit of the art, and the efficacy of the stone. ibid.
XI. That this mastery magisterium: the completion of the Great Work imitates the creation of the universe. 301
XII. An enigmatic suggestion as to what the nature of the stone may be. ibid.
XIII. Why the stone is said to be perfect. 302