The Heaven of the Philosophers, or the Book of Vexations

Whatever one wishes to convert original: "conuersione", and to sublime with great labor, these are vain works; for without the Sun and Moon existing within it, it is only a certain dissipation.

59 For there is another, far different and closer way by which Mercury is transmuted into the Moon with little expense and less labor.

60 Anyone, however, would willingly learn the art, this original: "quærendam" so light and easy in alchemy, by which he might make much Sun and Moon in a short time. And since lengthy words and writings are read only with tedium, thus the exhortation: do this and in this way, work so, and you will have Sun and Moon by which you may emerge as a very wealthy man; the alchemist would certainly wish that he be moved by direct words. Wait for a little while, I ask, until it is explained to you in brief words without labor and is ingested into the stomach, so that you may immediately make original: "facias" Sun and Moon from Saturn, Mercury, and Jupiter.

61 It could never have been that these Aza were so common in discovery and making, and existed as easy in themselves. The promptness of making Sun and Moon through alchemy is so easy that there would be no more need for books or written doctrine than if you wished to write something about the annual snow.

Concerning the Receipts of Alchemy

62 What then is to be said concerning the receipts of alchemy and the diversity of vessels and instruments? Such as furnaces, glasses, pots, water, oils, calxes, sulfurs, salts, saltpeters, alums, vitriols, chrysocolla original: "Chrysocolla", a gold-solder or green mineral pigment,