The King Showing Himself to All the World

to make: only then, when they have been stripped of their terrestrial impurities original German: terrestrischen Unart, are they to be fixed and bound again. For this reason, they have written: make the fixed volatile, and the volatile fixed original Latin: fac fixum volatile, & volatile fixum. Likewise: unless the corporeal becomes incorporeal, and vice-versa, you achieve nothing original Latin: nisi fiant corporea incorporea, & è contra, nihil operamini. And here we desire that they not be separated from each other, but be mutually fixed and remain together original Latin: Et hîc volumus, quod non separentur ad invicem, sed mutuo figantur & remaneant simul.

All this, however, happens through Philosophical Sublimation Philosophical Sublimation: A process of purifying a substance by heating it so that the "spirit" rises and is refined, distinct from common chemical sublimation., as Geber Geber is the Latinized name of Jabir ibn Hayyan, an 8th-century polymath often considered the father of early chemistry and alchemy. also testifies when he writes: the whole perfection of the art consists in sublimation, and in the vessel and the governance of the fire; because in sublimation itself these modes are present and maintained, as is evident, namely: not only sublimation, but also distillation, ascension and descension, congelation, putrefaction, calcination, inceration, and the white and red tincture; by one fire, one vessel, one path of ashes, until its final preservation, of which the Philosophers wrote. But the meaning would become more obscure, for they wrote much original Latin: tota perfectio artis consistit in sublimatione....

Moreover, after the matter has been putrefied to make a spiritual body (Mercury) which is nevertheless impossible except in the air through Philosophical sublimation and putrefaction. original Latin: Postquam autem materia fuerit putrefacta ad faciendum corpus spirituale...

So take the aforementioned Mercury of the Sun Mercurium Solis: In alchemy, this is a refined "mercurial" essence extracted from gold, which is symbolized by the Sun., and dry it on warm sand in a clean glass bowl so that everything remains pure; further strain it The German träncke here refers to the process of pressing or filtering liquid mercury through leather. through chamois leather semisch Leder: A soft, porous leather used by alchemists to filter impurities out of liquid mercury by squeezing it through the pores. three or