Epistola de lapide philosophorum (Letter on the Philosopher's Stone, 1559)

f / blood

for this is without doubt because it is that Lesser World The human being or the stone as a microcosm (the cosmos in our? all elements, and in the po-—
tential of the elements, and through impure and by impure operations it proceeds inasmuch as they appear—
in the said stone and in one another?, and the lowest of the elements, to which the subject is more subject,—
more composing that form of substances which we seek. Therefore it is firmly believed that in the—
time (of delay?) if all the world together to agree to combine joined in the heart/above—
would prohibit the minimum. Having therefore this premised?, and to you, and to all the things? the name of the stone more—
and one, vegetable and mineral matter, to be awaited, that matter of the whole part—
parts you might make: and between, which fights against it from fire, from water, and air, and is from the impo/stant?—
into the poor, which I might dismiss. Whose cause to prepare to dispose, to subtract, to separate, to mix—
and finally in other operations, perfecting to effect. The artisan only in operations, might need here and—
one matter (because as it could be said the Game of children, from which like theirs many times we are to pity—
their operation, which in cleansing, preparing, and subtracting they proceeded to the Stone) The other—
truly natural: which is said from the work to be strengthened. This in this work in no way external heat,—
moving that act and natural, exciting in the stone the caused informative virtue, and/as—
if cooking the stone in the mode? and formation after the mode of a woman, who cooks pregnant with heat prio/of her own: that—
she might bring forth the fetus they warm. And so in the twelve days' decoction, it is exceeded, the heat is greatest—
(excited in the said stone dispersively/ this motion and excited by the external are governed/ and matter—
it receives/ it grows green and grows green signifying only by doing, moving coagulating fi-—
xado, whitening and reddening the stone: and thus in that substantiated form it is introduced more—
first whiteness, and lastly redness. Therefore that? substantial forms clearly here appears—
all of the stone and all the steps until: that from there might be educed white and red medicine: from—
which from the Stone itself I think, to its preparation it is educed so that we might arrive: which are made—
by three waters in various ways we call the cold, the second warm, the third truly mean between cold—
and warm: from the first the culinary Stone and well pulverized must be sublimated; that it might dissolve, and become—
and volatile: placing it in a certain form, existing in a glass vessel, well closed—
of cold complexion: that they themselves might be able to have gathering the pure parts of the stone itself,—
salty, homogeneous, and heterogeneous: which vessel afterwards to submerge in dung?,—
in sight of the sun, and the highest in the belly of a horse, that is in a steam bath and it will be able to be located:—
And there by then time bread? that making it striving also reddening, without the wi-—
ne red about which some? through Red wine Raymond Raymond Lull, the 13th-century philosopher and alchemist many things placing said not none—
not understanding some parts, neither of human blood, nor of vulgar? Red wine:—
but of that water of his reddening, which afterwards through a filter first, exposed (?)—
through the bath must be distilled; in which from the bath will distill clear water, remaining in—
the dregs, and in the bottom of the virtue, that part of the nearest stone, and in the vessel sublimated,