The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

which will reside in the bed.

After having sealed the house with the Seal of Hermes a hermetic seal for a glass vessel, one must await the term of nine circulations, which being completed, and the spirit and the body having triumphed each in their turn, becoming once again only one, they make us arrive at the Mercury of the Philosophers the purified philosophical solvent, which ends the first operation and gives entry to the second: after, however, that Saturn the leaden, initial state of the material will have caused this glorious Light to appear, where the body, the soul, and the spirit will rise again, full of glory, from the first resurrection, which is that of which