The Metallic Orchard

Greenness original: Grüne; likely referring to the "Green Lion" or the initial life-force within matter that is born within it; is the blessed matter of the philosophers original: Philosophorum.

Through the mingling of the earth and the fiery-spiritual water, the extracted salt is dissolved original: solvirt, made fixed fixed; rendered solid and resistant to the heat of fire, and fire-constant—as well as enduring—in its power;

The ancients otherwise had no other matter, nor could they find any that would reveal all things, as this does;

And when the artist the alchemist extracts his clear salt from this fatty essence, turning it into oil original: Oehl; in alchemy, a concentrated, liquid essence of a substance (which is easily done), and places his sulfur into this salt-spirit or oil, and thus mixes these two together, he will find that one will gladly receive the other and know how to unite with it.

Our sulfur original: Schwefel, if it were not soaked original: imbibiret with its own quicksilver original: argento vivo, would have to remain lying dead forever;

But when its spirit is breathed back into it, and it is saturated and revived by it, it dissolves and fixes original: solvirt und figirt itself in such a way that it can become nothing other than a good body.

Thus, when our sulfur and quicksilver original: Sulphur ac argentum vivum unite with one another anew original: de novo, and one has made the other enduring, they are then called the double Mercury original: Mercurius of the metals, or the Vitriol of the Philosophers original: Philosophorum Vitriolum: Everything else is false, therefore [one] shall and