OF THE HIGHLY NECESSARY

marginal note: The operation of many SALTS is to Resolve, Purify, etc. Why not also the SALTS of gems and other stones? NOTE WELL. For that ART, rightly says GEBER book 1, chap. 7, is preserved in divine power, and to whom He wills, He gives [it] or withdraws [it], who is glorious and sublime, and filled with all justice and goodness.

to be considered, and kept very certain, [that they] would [not] also kill, or should they?
Since the proper nature of many SALTS, and indeed primarily of the perfect ones, both fixed and also spiritual or volatile, as well as the more-than-perfect fixed ones, is to act IN SAID MANNER; by how much more will the action of the NOBLE and OTHER STONE SALTS—prepared and opened Spagirically in the aforementioned manner, previously [processed] into TARTAR—be [potent]? [I] will keep quiet for this time, when THEY (which now still appear WATERY or even DRY SALT-LIKE, yet only PERFECT) then once (when GOD the LORD, according to His Fatherly will and blessing, when it shall be)