The Great Elucidator: Or Enlightenment on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

He introduces a parable of an old wise man who desired to be rejuvenated, and he gives him the advice that he should } let himself be divided and boiled until his perfect boiling, and no further; then the limbs would reunite and rejuvenate with many powers.

Other philosophers give this to be understood by saying: I saw a man who became black as a Moor; he was stuck in a mire, or a black, unclean, foul-smelling slime; a young woman came to his aid, beautiful of face, even more beautiful of body, and adorned most beautifully with garments, which were of many kinds of colors; she was adorned with white wings on her back, the colors were equal to the most beautiful white peacock, and had golden