The Opened Philosophical Father-Heart

in all its circumstances, in particular, so that you may also plant the gold tree of the philosophers in the same way, and in such a manner promote its succulence to grow. Namely, that the noblest gold or silver (in whose nature all heavenly and earthly powers of the prepared elements are poured) can grow and become ripe, as if in an uncorrupted seed. I say that this gold or silver mentioned shall not be dissolved from its cohesive materia matter by any mineral substances or parting-water nitric acid and similar things.

Just as the grain of wheat, when it has been corrupted decayed by the moisture of the earth, decays and is set loose from the bonds of its first fixation, so can the super-fine gold and silver also be dissolved and released from its bonds, in which it has been held connected by the sulfur and salt, just as the wheat grain also was. Which the philosopher can easily do with the key of the wise, namely, through the succulent and fertile virgin earth of the wise. In a word: the gold can be dissolved, calcined reduced to powder by heat, prepared, and disposed for this by sublimation vaporizing and condensing, putrefaction rotting, and digestion gentle, sustained heating. So that after all external foreign things