The Metallic Orchard

...of the spirit and Salt-Spirit original: Salz-Geistes without ceasing; if the Spirit of Salt original: Spiritus Salis; in alchemy, this often refers to the acidic principle or the "animating" force within salts did not receive a pure earth from those elements, it could not crystallize original: anschiessen; the process of a liquid substance forming into solid crystals, nor take on a body; note this well.

Every life has its own distinct course, and its life comes from above; therefore, every thing that is upon and under the earth has its own Salt-Spirit. Through fire, air, water, and spirit, all things have passed, been composed, orderly built, and fruitfully created. Water dwells with the earth and must also be transformed into earth; its extract original: Extract is a salty essence and a permanent, incombustible fiery oil original: Oehl; the key that unlocks everything and transforms it into its own kind. Earth and water must always be together, the heavenly and earthly must mingle; joining together so that, from the beginning, they must become water and spirit.

The heaven is indeed the most holy being in itself; its astral, fiery, watery soul original: Anima works day and night. These two are united; as water is mixed with fire, it turns into a spiritual being in which the fiery spirit lies hidden; if it dies away, it is born anew.

The earth also has its fire, its air and water, and its foundation Grund-Veste; the solid, fundamental base or bedrock of the physical world; the