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Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān · 1545

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IIII. On decoction long, slow heating and its effect. 282
V. On subtiliation, solution, coagulation, and the mixture of the stone, and their cause, and end. ibid
VI. On the fixation of the spirit. 284
VII. On the decoction, contrition grinding, and ablution washing of the stone. 285
VIII. On the quantity of the fire, and its convenience and inconvenience. ibid
IX. On the separation of the elements of the stone. 286
X. On the nature of the stone, and its origin. 287
XI. On the mixture of the separated elements. ibid
XII. On the solution of the composite stone. 288
XIII. On the coagulation of the dissolved stone. 289
XIIII. That there is only one stone, and on its nature. 290
XV. Mode of operation of the stone for the white. 291
XVI. Conversion of the aforementioned stone into the red. 293
Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. 294
INDEX OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN the exposition of Hortulanus.
Prayer of Hortulanus. 295
Preface. ibid
I. That the art of alchemy is true and certain. 296
II. That the stone ought to be divided into two parts. ibid
III. That the stone has in itself four elements. ibid
IIII. That the stone has a father and mother, namely Sol and Luna. 297
V. That the conjunction of the parts of the stone is called impregnation. ibid
VI. That the stone is perfect, if the soul has been fixed in the body. 298
VII. On the purification of the stone. 299
VIII. That the non-fixed part of the stone ought to overcome the fixed part of the stone, and lift it up. ibid
IX. How the volatile stone is to be fixed again. 300
X. On the fruit of the art, and the efficacy of the stone. ibid
XI. That this mastery imitates the creation of the universe. 301
XII. Enigmatic insinuation, what the nature of the stone is. ibid
XIII. Why the stone is called perfect. 301