Major Elucidator or Illuminations on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

likeness of an old wise man who desires to be rejuvenated again, and gives him the advice that he should allow himself to be divided and cooked until his perfect boiling, and no further. Then the limbs would reunite and rejuvenate again with many powers.

Other philosophers give us to understand this when they say:

I saw a man who became as black as a Moor; he was stuck in a Letten clay/mud, or a black, unclean, foul-smelling slime. To his aid came a young woman, beautiful of face, even more beautiful of body, and adorned in the most beautiful manner with garments. They were of various colors. She was adorned with white wings on her back. The colors were like the most beautiful white peacock, and they had golden