Major Elucidator or Enlightenment on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

Custom of the philosophers, that they are accustomed to describe the high secret of the blessed stone always with flowery words.

Regarding the first, the following testimonies and examples are to be noted:

Ovid, the old poet, introduces the allegory of an old man who desired to be rejuvenated once again; And he gives him the advice that he should allow himself to be divided and cooked, until his perfect cooking, and no further. Then the limbs would reunite again, and rejuvenate once more, into many powers.

Other philosophers give it to be understood in this way, when they say:

I saw a person who became black as a Moor; He was stuck in a clay, or black unclean slime, smelling foul; To him came for help a young woman, beautiful of face; even more beautiful of body, and most beautifully adorned with clothes,