Particular from the Universal

To start again from the beginning, the time seemed too long to me, and the heart nearly failed, and the expenses became too heavy to bear. By chance, I caught sight of the Little Peasant likely referring to a specific alchemical text or treatise, whom I resolved to consult, in the opinion that he might perhaps stumble out with a shorter path, and his simplicity, like the first, might put me on the right track in seeking the Materiæ material, or at least provide me with some use for what I had elaborated so far.

There I found on page 19 these words:

Look, under this gray coat I have a green, red underlayer. If you polish that with flint stones, iron rust, and red fixed eagle, then will