THE THEORY

...fit for completing the action, which is granted to it through the constitution original: "complexionem" of its temperament, along with the completion that is bestowed upon it by way of the method of the known projection proiectio: the final stage of the Great Work, where the Elixir is cast upon molten base metal to transform it. This action renders and organizes the medicine medicina: the Philosopher's Stone or Elixir, believed to "heal" base metals into gold to be fit and capable through its own temperament.

The intention of the one who strives to bring our work to its conclusion with a noble temperament, using the instrument of prudent wisdom, must be principally focused and directed toward the knowledge of this [temperament]. For any considerations that do not concern the temperament ought in no way to be consistent with this matter. Indeed, such thoughts are foreign and distant from the will and considerations of the artist original: "artificis"; referring here to the alchemist as a skilled practitioner of a "Sacred Art"; because of this, such a thinker is made an exile from the entire successful goal. He is like one who is foreign and alienated by his own superfluous labor and the delusions original: "phantasiam" which he has investigated.

Nevertheless, temperament is acquired through the ingenuity of nature or the will of the master in the forming process, through the intellect, for the unification original: "unamentum," referring to the harmonious joining of disparate elements of things pertaining to and capable of being mixed by the science and informative art; [this occurs] in a medicine constituting one single condition original: "habitum", or diverse or many conditions. For since temperament is the perfection of action, it is not more clearly known, nor more rightly preserved or discovered, than [through]...