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

water, and from water, fire; thus you have the art.

Alius: Whoever can bring forth a hidden thing, he is a master of the art.

Morienes: Whoever can quicken the soul, he will experience it.

Alphidius: It must be that this vapor rises upward; otherwise you will have nothing of it.

Calid: Extinguish the fire of one thing with the coldness of another thing.

Avicenna: Make the blind seeing, and the seeing blind; thus you have the mastery.

Splendor Solis: In the dissolution, the living silver is equal to the working one, but in the coagulation it is the suffering one, in which work is done; therefore, this art is