The Fifth Part of the Prosperity of Germany

This is the way this world was founded, and hence its miraculous conjunctions, and effects to be marveled at, since this is the path through which these miracles are effected, and on account of these they called me by the name of Hermes Trismegistus Thrice-Great Hermes, since I possess the three parts of the wisdom and philosophy of the whole world; my word is finished, which I spoke concerning the Solar Work.

THE SYMBOL OF F. BASILIUS VALENTINUS.

The stone is the least precious of all, from which the fugitive fire is extracted, but from this fire the stone itself is constructed, of a white and red color, yet it is not a stone. In this stone, nature operates and produces a limpid fountain, which suffocates and absorbs its fixed Father with waters, until the soul is finally returned to it, and the fugitive mother becomes similar in the kingdom. This stone also acquires great power and strength, it precedes the sun in age, with the fugitive mother prepared by Vulcan the power of fire/alchemy, and the Father begotten by the Spirit. The soul, body, and Spirit likewise consist in two, from which are all things: from one these, and it is one, joining the fixed and the fugitive. These are two, and three, and one; if the knowledge of these escapes you, you will be frustrated in the effect of the art. Adam is placed in the bath in