Of the highly necessary

moist cellar or otherwise in a moist place, after their calcination or reverberation, that is, to lime and ash burning, but, as also said before, through FIRE, properly per SE in and of itself, VULCANIC and NEPTUNIC,) THAWED, that is, artificially RESOLVED, DISSOLVED, and REDUCED or BROUGHT BACK, according to nature, to their FIRST MATTER:

Also IN SUCH A WAY that the various impurities clinging to it are SEPARATED, and only the earthly coarseness remains of it, like empty husks, deaf and light, remaining behind, weakened.

LOOK! According to the aforementioned HERMETIC,

Yes, in this way it is correctly called making a STONE into WATER.

WATER, properly per SE, for and by itself, VULCANIC

original: "SIC & GLACIEI Sophorum, in calore, fit, RESOLUTIO!"
translation: THUS also occurs the THAWING of the ICE of the WISE in the heat!

original: "Et ex LAPIDE XIDAR, acetum RADICIS Salesum, Philosophicè manifestatur!"
translation: And from the STONE XIDAR, the vinegar of the ROOT of Salts is philosophically manifested!

Understand Mercurial, Sulphuric, and Saline.

original: "Propterea SOLUTIONEM fieri oportet, ut ad PURIFICATIONEM Lapidis partium pervenire queamus."
translation: Therefore, DISSOLUTION must take place, so that we may be able to arrive at the PURIFICATION of the parts of the STONE.