The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

from the Earth all the productions that it brought forth in obedience, by means of the ardors with which He had warmed it. It was then that this Light, joined to that of the Sun, cast its influences from the supercelestial world to the celestial, and from the celestial to the firmamental. Subsequently, the Sun always continued to carry its rays in every direction; and thus, making its ordinary turn and rolling in its sphere through its penetrative activity, it insinuated itself into the most hidden and secret parts of the World; and, penetrating to the center of the Earth,