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via the spirit cannot be in our stone, except via the body.

The oil which will float on top should be removed for so long until no blackness appears anymore, and a round little cloud ascends, which must be left until its sublimation is formed.

The whole art is contained in one stone, to which nothing is added, or mixed in the whole, or in part, until the work is finished.

Our water is not simple, or of a cloud. For water is the soul of the stone. This is cited by Blessed Thomas.

Hermes said in his decree that one part of this elixir falls upon 1000. I ask you, brother, upon the faith of God, do not show such a secret to anyone, except to our son. And whoever is worthy of this our secret mastery, will be our son, and God shall alleviate [burdens] upon him. And when you have been exalted above all the circles of this lunar world, remember then to visit the poor, the orphans, and the widows, and such like in their tribulation, so that you may be able in the day of judgment to hear the promised word of God: Come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom which was prepared for you from the beginning of the world.

Sulfur that does not burn by nature.

The best sulfur is considered to be the living, which they call Apyron, splendid in the manner of a small pearl, shining through, not at all stony, etc. Read in that chapter the Corollary of Barbarus, for whom in that Chemical art Crystal lights. White foliated earth. sulfur is in place of the male: but mercury, that is, argentum vivum quicksilver, is in place of the female, so that Democritus therefore reported that quicksilver is the foam of all metals.

The Philosopher's Stone, sprouting from the earth, is perfected or exalted in the fire, satiated with the drink of the most limpid water for at least twelve hours, visibly swelling on all sides.

Be long-suffering, and do not extract the tincture hurriedly, nor seek to finish it hurriedly or swiftly, etc. And at the end of the same chapter he says: Therefore, my dearest, you need to labor in the dissolution of the stone, namely, by separating its purer parts from the impure, so that the heavier parts being cast away, the work may be finished with the lighter ones.

What potable gold is.

The body dissolved in the water which is called perennial, is our potable Gold.