The Golden Fleece

5. Common Mercury of Life, its augmentation and use. original: "Mercurius vitæ communis"; "Mercury of life" was a term often used for a purified substance derived from antimony or mercury, believed to have potent medicinal properties.
6. Virgin’s Milk. original: "Lac virginis"; in alchemy, this refers to a white, milky liquid or precipitate, often used as a solvent or a stage in the purification of materials.
7. Tartarized Quintessence. Quinta essentia Tartarisata: A highly distilled or purified essence made from tartar (potassium bitartrate), used in the "spagyric" or chemical preparation of medicines.
8. Preparation and Sublimation of Gold ☉: Gold/Sun into Mercury ☿: Mercury.
9. Composition and Solution of the Mercury of Gold ☉: Gold with the Common Mercury of Life.
10. Ablution A ceremonial or chemical washing to remove impurities. with the Tartarized Quintessence.
11. Process and fixation of the Philosopher’s Stone. Fixation: The chemical process of making a volatile substance stable so that it no longer evaporates or changes when heated.
12. Augmentation of the stone and the philosopher’s potable gold. Aurum potabile: "Drinkable gold," a legendary medicine believed to cure all diseases and grant long life.
13. Use and projection of the Philosopher’s Stone. Projection: The final step in the Great Work, where a small amount of the Stone is "projected" onto a base metal to transform it into gold or silver.
4. Various "Particular" works to learn the necessary manual operations. Particularia: Chemical procedures aimed at specific results—like changing a small amount of metal or making a specific medicine—rather than the "Universal" work of the Philosopher's Stone.
5. A Tincture or Elixir by an unknown philosopher.
6. Process for a tincture upon the Mercury of Gold ☉: Gold and Silver ☾: Silver.
7. Manner of proceeding in the preparation of the philosophical stone.
8. Dialogue of philosophy between a master and a disciple.
9. Example of the Philosophical Art.
10. Twelve chapters on the Philosopher’s Stone by an uncertain author.
11. A beautiful process on the Philosopher’s Stone by Melchior, Bishop of Brixen, Cardinal of Rome, etc., and a philosophical conversation about the Yellow and Red Man. Melchior of Brixen (also known as Melchior Cibinensis) was a 16th-century alchemist famous for writing a text that described the alchemical process in the form of a liturgical Mass. The "Yellow and Red Man" are allegories for stages of the material's transformation.
12. Concerning the Rebis, a stone. Rebis: From the Latin "res bina" (double thing), an alchemical symbol for the union of opposites, such as spirit and matter or male and female, depicted as a two-headed figure.
13. Various philosophical matters.
1. Chapter in which the whole work is briefly contained.
2. A beautiful poem }
3. A conversation } concerning the Saturn ♄: Saturn/Lead of the philosophers.
4. A poem }
5. Concerning the oil of the philosophers.
6. True preparation of Mercury.