The Saturnian Kingdoms Converted into the Golden Age

TO THE READER 17

...one has entered into the other, and they are properly gathered together: the cloth is hung up to be dried, and—N. B. original: "Nota Bene"; Latin for "note well" or "take notice."—the water recedes, and the fixed color Color fixus; in both dyeing and alchemy, a "fixed" color is one that is permanent and cannot be washed away, faded by light, or destroyed by fire. remains in the cloth.

This is exactly how it is with our Stone The Philosopher's Stone, the goal of the Great Work.. Even though we have rightly prepared the bodies, as well as the soul and the spirit; unless they enter into one another, they will not stay together now, nor at any time in the future, without the medium of water original: "sine medio aquae"; the author argues that water is the necessary bridge or environment that allows the spiritual and physical components to intermingle.. And