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QUATRAIN

This peerless Phoenix with its golden

tresses,

original: "tresse blonde." In alchemical poetry, golden hair often signifies the arrival of the "Golden" or solar state of the matter.

Which Phoebus sends us from the lineage

of the Gods,

Phoebus is the Greco-Roman god of the Sun (Apollo); in alchemy, he represents the solar principle, the source of heat, and the metal Gold.

Encompassing three-in-one, descending

from high places,

original: "tripl'en un." This refers to the alchemical trinity of Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury, which must be unified into a single substance to achieve the Great Work.

To see it here below, victorious over

the world.