The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

That is to say, by separating the pure from the impure, one must have a clear and perfect idea of the passionate love between the male and the female, which will embrace so tightly that they will no longer be able to be separated thereafter; and that according to the just weight of Nature, one should make the marriage for the new generation, that one should put them in prison an alchemical term for the sealed vessel at the hour of their birth; and that by adjusting the bodies properly to the capacity of the bed where one wishes to make them lie, one can maintain them in a digestive heat, consistent with that