The Heaven of the Philosophers, or the Book of Vexations

to desire all the arts of the alchemists, by this alone, that what can be done in me and through me might be seen.

33: The cold stone within me, through this Water by which you make the spirit of the six metals freeze, in the essence of the bodies of the seventh, this alone with the Moon is to be promoted.

Canon 6.

Of the Moon and its properties

34. From the Moon, one makes the will of Saturn or Mars; it is no lighter or easier work than wanting to make the Moon from Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, or Saturn with great profit: it is not only useful to transmute the perfect into the imperfect, but the imperfect into the perfect.

35. But it is also necessary to know from where this matter of the Moon is or from where it proceeds: whoever is not able to consider or investigate this, will not be able to know the Moon.

36 If it is asked, what is the Moon? It is, of the six metals spiritually hidden, the seventh itself, the eternal of bodies, and the material. For it always contains the seventh of the other six metals hidden within itself spiritually. And the six spiritual metals do not exist without one extrinsic and material metal: thus also no bodily metal can have place or essence without those six spiritual ones.

37. Let the seven bodily metals be well mixed by liquefaction,