can be transformed from one form into another, namely into lime, soot, ash, and glass, into color, into stone, and into earth: which final earth can again be reduced into many new metallic bodies.

29 If a metal were fragile even when burnt or from old rust, it may be regained again through hammering and ignition.

Canon 5.

Of the nature and properties of Saturn.

30 Saturn speaks thus of his own nature: For my feared examiner, the other six metals are driven out from their spiritual place by themselves: they add a corruptible bile bitter/acrid body to my dwellings, so that I may be what they themselves are not, nor desire to be: But because my spiritual brothers are distant, from there, so that my body—which is daily ignited—may be penetrated, and while I perish through the fire, let them also lose their fear, with only the divine original: "divina" and deifying original: "deifica" substances? by which mine are cleansed and overflow with water.

31 My spirit is Water, dissolving the rigid and frozen bodies of my brothers: Indeed, my body is inclined toward the Earth: Whatever is received into me also becomes its own, and through me is made into one body.

32 It would be of very little use to the world if it knew or at least saw what lies hidden within me, and what I am able to accomplish: it would be more useful if it knew how to perform with me that which I can do, and