The Hermetic North Star

Our Fire original symbol: Δ; used here to represent the primary active principle or internal heat is as if lukewarm, and it is increased by cold; see folio 90. Water original symbol: ▽, through cold...
The Head and Water original symbol: ▽ produce heat, just like the Sun of the underworld original: "☉ inferni"; a reference to the "central fire" or the hidden solar power residing in the depths of matter.

Note Well: The Weight of Nature, page 91, bottom of the page.

The effect of "active darkness" original: "Tenebrarum activarum"—according to Wintring likely a reference to a specific author or the process of "wintering" and cooling—in nature is the mother of cold; it is the mass of collection and the beginning of all cold. Just as light is the principle and source of Heat.

Philaletha Referring to Eirenaeus Philalethes, a famous 17th-century alchemist whose works were widely studied in the 1700s, folio 54 and 55: The face of cold is below in the depths, while the Divine Darkness original: "Caligo Divina"; a mystical concept of a darkness that is "too bright" for human senses, often associated with the presence of the Creator is above the comprehension of the unlearned?. Between these two lies nature. Moisture is the passive element; for the slightest Heat changes water into smoke meaning vapor or steam, and the slightest cold turns that same smoke back into water again.