The King Showing Himself to All the World

[...]-ment The text begins mid-word, likely completing "medicament" or "instrument" from the previous page. sweeps away and takes away all filth and impurities from animal and metallic bodies, so that the Philosophers' Stone Lapis Philosophorum: The legendary substance capable of transmuting base metals into gold and acting as a universal medicine. must be prepared in a material way and also substantially out of the Body of Gold Corpore Solis: Literally the "Body of the Sun," the alchemical name for gold.. For every Tincture must proceed from its like. original Latin: Omnis enim Tinctura à suo simili procedere debet. This refers to the alchemical principle that to produce gold, one must start with the "seed" of gold. Nevertheless, this must not happen in a sophistical In alchemy, "sophistical" refers to deceptive or superficial chemical methods that do not follow the true laws of nature. manner; rather, the Body of Gold Corpus Solis: Pure gold. must be entirely broken down and brought back into its primary essence, so that one may turn its innermost and hidden parts outward and make them visible. To put this into practice, proceed as follows:

℞. The traditional symbol for "Recipe" or "Take." Gold, fine and purified through Quartation Quartation: A refining method where gold is alloyed with silver (in a 1:3 ratio) and then separated with acid to ensure its purity. or Antimony Antimony: A metallic substance used to "devour" impurities in gold during smelting., dissolve it in Aqua Regia Aqua Regis: Latin for "Royal Water," a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids, so named because it is one of the few substances that can dissolve gold., then draw off the wateriness from it until it reaches an Oiliness Olität: A concentrated, viscous liquid state.. Furthermore, bring this oiliness into a cool, damp cellar by appropriate means to form transparent crystals; further turn these crystals through Putrefaction Putrefaction: The alchemical stage of decomposition or "blackening," where the substance is broken down. and Sublimation Sublimation: A process where a solid is heated into a vapor and then condensed back into a solid, used here to purify the substance. into a beautiful, gleaming, and lively white Mercury Mercurio: Here referring to "Philosophical Mercury," a purified state of the metal rather than common quicksilver., thus the Body of Gold is broken for the first time, and the First Matter Materia prima: The original, formless base of all matter which the alchemist seeks to isolate. is brought into a proximate original Latin: propinquam; meaning the material is now in a state nearly ready for the final transformation. state. For it is certain that all things consist of that, and out of that, into which they are resolved; and all metals can be reduced into Mercury. original Latin: Nam certum est omnes res de eo, & ex eo constare, in quod resolvitur, & omnia Metalla possunt reduci in Mercurium. Thus is the