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It happens through a fiery nature. Thus from the osene?. original: "osene"; possibly a corruption of "ossibus" (bones) or a specific mineral name. And if the proportion rules more than it ought. He responds that if what is said is true—that if more enters than ought to—it nourishes the extinction, and through itself there is no doubt that it is seen to overcome Concerning the color of fire those [elements] while it transmutes into another color as Theophilus says. Theophilus Presbyter, an 11th-century author who wrote on the "arts," including metallurgy and glass-making.
---They deserve to be in the middle. Rhazes original: "Rasen"; referring to the Persian polymath and alchemist Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi. says that as a limit. This is what he says: that in a gentle fire oporicana? it is seen that the fire ought to be gentle until it settles?. Avicenna says this about the island possibly a reference to a specific chapter or an allegorical location in his alchemical works and by its clear lightness it is whitened dealbaturthe stage of Albedo, where the matter is purified to a white state. and from lunde? and Phobre upon the island.
---And Gregory likely Saint Gregory the Great, though here used to support a celestial or cosmological framework for the work in the blessing of the holy celestial ones, [is] under the heavenly rule. If it is seen that through a plain [path] all things persist, he seems to wish it so. Homer in book 3, [part] 4, and Baconell likely a diminutive or corruption of Roger Bacon and Zeno in a similar manner.
---In the same way, Theophilus says where he states that in one [vessel] the cooking coquensthe process of "decoction" or ripening the matter through heat. ought to be done. And Geber the Latinized name of Jabir ibn Hayyan, considered the father of alchemy. in the first book of Actions adds and says: he reduced the fleeing original: "fuga"; likely referring to volatile substances that "flee" the fire via sublimation. [substances] and gathered the parts into one. And so it seems that all things are digested, just as the said Theophilus says. And they cannot be kept watch over until they emerge?, and that in the magnitude? is found our flight. And Aelred, where the medium [is] over the kingdom of fire, although he well sets it apart. Also, it is found in the earth where it says: through a gentle fire, whiteness albedo [is achieved] until it coagulates. Because this is what is said, and the fire is repeated over the part until it remains through the night to the hardness of the mountain, namely whiteness and the heart [or body], and with the rest it grows red rubescitthe stage of Rubedo, or the "Red Work," representing the final perfection of the Philosopher's Stone.. Now it is not so. That speech of the fire [says] it should be gentle until it whitens and coagulates, and it is necessary in this first stage. Until the fire is increased and the humidity is consumed?.
Note Fiery, namely one. Which is from three parts. This, that the Stone lapis [is] hidden from three parts: namely the body, the spirit spiritus?, and the soul. The "Tria Prima"—the alchemical trinity of Body (Salt), Spirit (Mercury), and Soul (Sulphur). As it is said, everything is well. And from this it appears that from those things pertaining to all nature, the first Stone...