The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

ish, and produce according to their time.

The Creator, by His divine Providence, sent upon the Waters a simple and invisible Spirit, RUACH ELOHIM Spirit of God, to warm and render all things fruitful: Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas The Spirit of the Lord moved upon the waters. He began to vivify them, to make them move, and finally He gave them perfection. Immediately there appeared the Light, which of all created Beings is the purest. To speak as a philosopher, it is this vivified and vivifying Spirit, which served as a channel to the Lord, to draw