Fortress of Science.

...trumpet, the great, pure secret clearly, which now sounds so lovely; it shines just like the bright day, breaking through by God’s goodness.

Then the Philosopher’s Stone Lapis Philosophicus: The legendary "Stone" or tincture sought by alchemists, capable of transmuting base metals into gold and grant long life. underlined is prepared in such a way, from which thereafter a piece the size of a hazelnut, thrown upon five pounds of iron, lead, tin, or whatever metal it may be, transforms everything into pure, clear, clean, solid gold. This is done when you first take Tutty Tutiam: Zinc oxide, often collected from the chimneys of smelting furnaces; used as a base in chemical preparations. and Mummy Mumiam: A substance used in medicine and alchemy, typically bitumen or ground-up mummified remains, believed to contain a potent "vital force." in equal weights original: "æquis ponderibus", and throw them into a crucible original: "catinum" in which a Hungarian ducat A gold coin of very high purity, used here as the "seed" for the gold-making process. has been melted over a gentle coal fire for half an hour. This must be done at the time when Saturn has its course in the sign of Pisces underlined and its breadth original: "bratte"; likely referring to the planet's astrological latitude or its position at the meridian. is at its midday point; then you have a powder like ground gold.

Then take Mercury Mercurium: Quicksilver. extinguished with the saliva of a fasting man original: "salivâ hominis jejuni extinctum"; alchemists believed that the saliva of a person who had not yet eaten possessed unique "mercurial" or spiritual properties required to "kill" or fix the quicksilver., and flower of copper original: "æris florem"; the green or reddish oxidation (verdigris) on copper, used as a reagent., also as much of one as the other, added to the first powder, and placed again over a small coal fire in a crucible in which living sulfur has been melted, and stirred so that it mixes well together. This should be done at the time when Saturn and Mars are in New Moon original: "Novilunio" in the first house and in quartile aspect original: "gevierdten Schein"; an astrological configuration where two planets are 90 degrees apart, often considered a position of great tension and power in alchemical timing....