Revelation and Declaration of Basilius Valentinus

that Saturn be rendered by Vulcan the alchemical fire the least perfect of all his companions. For the superior light has caused and engendered Saturne Saturn/Lead with a non-fixed body, opened with many pores, so that the Air can penetrate his body and puff it up. But inasmuch as this Metal is not fixed, nor very compact, the FEV fire can easily act upon him to melt him, which must be well observed by him who searches for the mysteres mysteries of Nature within him: for there is a great difference between fixed and non-fixed bodies, and between the causes from which their permanence and their volatility proceed. And although the senses recognize Saturne for being heavier than some other Metaux metals, note nevertheless that when one melts it with others, notwithstanding the union that the casting gives them, the other Metaux go to the bottom, as one sees in ANTIMOINE antimony when it is melted with other Metaux; from which one learns that all the others are of a more compact and tightened consistency than good SATVRNE. For it must yield and give place to the others, and cannot gain any victory over them, being consumed with the volatiles, because the trois principes three principles (sulfur, salt, mercury) are burdened with impurity; and because his SEL salt is more fusible than any salt of the others, his body is also more fusible and less fixed.