The Microcosmic Animal Stone, or the Supreme Medicine from the Little World of the Human Body

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...[the chemical] element of the Salt (Gold) alone without its housing; but because it is still mixed with its superfluous tartar original: "Tartaro superfluo"; refers to the sediment or acidic crusts found in minerals or wine, viewed here as an impurity, you must remove it in this way: Dissolve it in circulated salt water original: "Aqua Salis circulata" and decompose it, so that the Sulfur In alchemy, Sulfur represents the soul or the active, combustible principle of a substance falls to the bottom. Refine original: "reverberire"; to heat a substance in a furnace so that the flames are "reverberated" or deflected back onto the material the pure substance in the closed reverberatory furnace of an Athanor|A specialized furnace used by alchemists designed to maintain a uniform, constant heat over a long duration; dissolve it upon marble and putrefy it original: "putrefac"; the process of breaking down a substance through heat and moisture, often seen as a necessary "death" before a chemical rebirth. Then the sublimated Mercury is graded and resolved into its First Matter original: "Primam materiam"; the primal, formless base of all matter which alchemists sought to isolate of the Salt (of the Sun) original: "Salis (Solis)"; in alchemy, the "Sun" is the symbol for Gold in the highest degree, and it is prepared.

CHAPTER X.

Just as mentioned in the manual, the Joining original: "Conjunction"; the mystical and chemical marriage of two opposing substances shall occur within the Philosophical Egg|A hermetically sealed glass vessel, often egg-shaped, used to incubate the alchemical materials during the final stages of the Great Work. And herewith we wish to conclude this Great Work in the name of GOD for His praise and honor. Basel, in the month of August, in the year 1511.

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