Curious Collection on Bismuth

water again from the corpore body until it remains lying completely dry on the bottom, and keep it well preserved. Grind the Corpus body small again, pour the ∇ Water upon it once more, but let it stand upon it for some time. Afterwards, draw it away to dryness, and such congressus Maris & fœminæ union of male and female or extracting, digesting, drawing off, and cohabiren cohabitating must happen so often and so much until the ∇ Water no longer wants to attack, solviren dissolve, and extract the corpus body, and no salt, or power, or fixum fixed part remains behind, but all the sperma corporis seed of the body [is] extracted, and the Sal fixum fixed salt has become volatile, all risen with the helm into heaven. The ∇ Water, however, [has] become full of power, white, [and] thick like a fat or oil, which in the cold congeals like an egg, but melts like wax in the warmth. Thus you have also here separated the purum ab impuro pure from the impure and the kernel from the husks, made the fixed volatile [and] the terrestrial spiritual. And with this white lily juice, in which the red is hidden, you can mutate and fix the ☉um vulgi vulgar Gold (I will say nothing of the Mercurio Solis) into good, lasting ☽ Silver, and already richly compensate yourself for your effort, work, and costs. Now you have made □△ [separated] the 4 elements and the 3 principles, dismantled our philosophical subjectum subject, and taken off all the little man's clothes and jewelry—yes, robbed him of his life so that he lies before you as if completely dead—and performed the Solve dissolution. But they are not dead, those who sleep; the little man will awaken again in great glory.

on the mountain [of] Gold