The Opened Philosophical Father-Heart

By the example I wish to give you, you should take note that all the care, toil, and diligence of the philosophers is directed solely toward, and consists of nothing else than, preparing their earth rightly and well. When they have cultivated and prepared this diligently and naturally, like good farmers, they simply cast their metallic seed therein, which in time naturally brings forth the solar or gold tree.

CHAP. II.

How one must naturally sow and transplant the gold tree of the philosophers.

My son, it is not unknown to you that the grain of wheat which one sows in the earth must be quite timely, pure, and without any lack and corruption decay. And that its vegetable life-giving or growth-making salt must not be altered changed or modified so that it may bring forth fruit.

When it is therefore, in such an exacting condition, thrown into a fertile, well-manured, and well-cultivated land, Nature accepts this grain, resolves breaks down it, and unbinds it, or releases it from the bonds of its first fixation state of being solid/non-volatile so that it may be led and promoted by this means to the motion of the powers of the seed