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and 3 and 4 and it is the end?. The black and the hidden original: "Nigrum et tectum" are made through it and from the whole of the same, on the contrary! namely concerning the black original: "videlicet de nigro" [see] page 8. original: "T. 8. charta"; likely a reference to another folio or a specific diagram in the collection.
it returns as it flourishes from each of the colors original: "revertitur ut floret ex singulis coloribus" from this it is seen that when the diluted mixture? arrives, the colors will appear. And it cannot entirely? be made to remain; we have better explained here in the second part through the wonders? given therein of others through the teachings? of many?, the color is made to appear. And then it is fitting? until the water becomes fire, as it seems. Because it first drinks the liquid? and ought to fail, it is blackened denigratur The "nigredo" or blackening was seen as the death and putrefaction of the base matter, a necessary first step. and the impurity? cannot be cleansed?, and the blackness original: "nigredo" is by reason of the limpidity?... ...is produced? it is not seen and it reiterates toward purity and to remove that which might remove the blackness and the burning? original: "combustionem" and it offers death original: "mortem"; the symbolic destruction of the metal's previous form.. And afterwards it is said likewise it becomes white original: "album" and it is called also citrine? original: "citrinum"; a yellow stage between the white and red works. according to Bonellus A significant figure and speaker in the "Turba Philosophorum," one of the earliest and most influential Latin alchemical texts. and the water red original: "et aqua rubeus" and that our ultimate future virtue follows. And it appears in the chapter that it was by that very faith. While it grows red, however, the colors [appear] as if pierced through? that thing, that is, it looks like honey.
black and white and red original: "nigrum et album et rubrum" and it is said the thing itself is blackened and enters? and the red folds?, and it seems that these colors appear before the whitening dealbatione Also known as "Albedo," this stage represents the purification of the matter into the "white stone" capable of transmuting metals into silver. because it is called black. Because the red covering? does not happen except after the whitening and 3
iron original: "ferrum"; often associated with the color red or the planet Mars in alchemical symbolism. that is, the red is fixed? while itself, because it is not seen in the whitening if it is called the principal place and the end. Because not all are made red by whitening so that it may be ordered. Through which the whole thing will be whitened by itself, and so it seems that if it happens? it will be as it was concerning the colors of whitening, appearing thus to succeed; however, the redness in the whitening is not the end of the whole work original: "finis totius operis" because then it produces the color. Whence it is said it shall be brought into white, because from white comes the limit and the end of the whole work, and redness succeeds. And it is possible that these colors—
The Book Ends original: "Explicit Liber"