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From the fire it is born. From the spirit with great ingenuity and sweat original: "sudore"; in alchemy, "sweat" refers to the condensation or moisture released by a substance when heated and little by little, not by violence, but with ingenuity, as if in the fire, he personally? shall separate and dissolve it; which dissolution is the first separator.

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Thirdly, it says: "From the fire, the spirit, and the smoke original: "fūrem" / "fumum" and the multitude." It is said "From the fire" because in such a stone, through the fire, the stone is purified. The most pure super-pendent a term likely referring to the weight or refinement of the substance by this act; thus a suitable stone is made for multiplying original: "multiplicadū"; multiplication is the alchemical process of increasing the quantity or potency of the Philosopher's Stone and one part is multiplied to a stable state, melted in the tooth likely referring to a "dent" or crucible, impossible in its hardness, yet divided among the soft things. It ascends, however, from the earth to heaven and again it descends into the earth. original: "Ascendit autem de terra in celum et iterum descendit in terram"; a core axiom of the Emerald Tablet describing the circulation of matter This is a very notable thing, because while they are in the stone in the first operation, they are joined?...

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...? the parts that exist. And what else is here, in our time, it hardens.

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This God? is above; there are two principal parts, or rather one that is called

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"ascending above," which is the non-fixed original: "non fixa"; the volatile part of the substance that evaporates or turns to gas and the other part is that which remains fixed original: "fixa"; the solid residue that resists the fire, which is called the ferment original: "fimentu" / "fermentum", which nourishes the whole stone and firms it.

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As is to be understood in this regarding the percussion?, namely the parts which by themselves

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in the fire are understood; but in time it makes the part harden. Regarding that non-fixed part, it is a good Azoth original: "az"; Azoth is the essential agent of transformation in alchemy, often symbolized as mercury which it retains, or it deceives and they give the stone which is the most pure weight. Through the Mastery original: "magisterium"; the successful completion of the alchemical process they give the whole stone until the non-fixed parts are defended and stood up; and this is what is said: It ascends, however, from the earth to heaven. After the stone itself is thus exalted, all darkness? original: "tendare" / "tenebrae" above it dies, when it is entirely drawn out from the stone in the operation. Which is called the stone. and by roasting and touching, they give the tooth? crucible and permit it to live with the common things, to exalt the whole stone; again it descends into the earth and it is purified, fixed, and flowed.