Manly P. Hall Collection, Box 4, Ms 19, Vol. 4

...when the creature speaks with its creator. "God, soften my heart, which is so hard and stony; due to the ineptitude of the heart, nothing is hardened; the tears dry up the mind." Also: "My soul is empty, and darkness is upon the face of the abyss. Say, you Creator of all things, 'Let there be light,' and it shall be." Also, a good bath for the soul is the prayer of tears, for whose sake you shed the tears. Arnoldus de Villa Nova says: "Our body is our $\nabla$ (water), and our spirit is our soul," and that all is nothing else than a rising of the fire of the water. Also:
1 John 5:8

The stone is not a stone; it is spirit, soul, and body—at first volatile, white as a tear. If you say it is $\nabla$, you speak the truth; but if you say it is not $\nabla$, you lie. It is the $\nabla$ that has risen in the morning from the $\odot$ (sun) and $\leftmoon$ (moon)—the chemists call the $\odot$ the right eye and the $\leftmoon$ the left. He also says that these must first mourn if they wish to rejoice later. Henrich Kunrath of Leipzig cites a passage: "He who sows with tears shall reap with joy." He calls one saying this, and another Exodus 25:38: "The vessels of purification (in which the purified shall be received) shall be of pure $\odot$ (gold)," and calls such philosophy contemplation. The figure of the Hermetic Herculani has many eyes (28) with this inscription: "The stone is under you, above you, and around you." Paracelsus, in Anatomy of the Eyes, asks: "What is in the world that should not be in the eyes?" etc.