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

...the disposition of the mixing intermediaries in generation, so that they are finished, but in another way from procreation: Which is evident since they admitted very little to the aforementioned, and especially in the exquisite frequency of dissolving bodies: and in conglutinating, and in following the motion of distillation, since for one of them is the advice of Aristotle in many places, but he placed it mostly: lest they themselves nevertheless answer otherwise, which [they write] in their books teaching physics, namely Dante Likely a reference to a source or specific authorial authority in this to you, in that they were equals / they will say, that rather [it is] their book on the arts edited, just as if in no part they had not been edited. Thus you know otherwise on account of which they only wish that they themselves might not understand them: therefore it is no less a virtue that they are understood: and if by some, that they might clearly know, they know that it is the first substance of mixtures, and to involve the truth of it, in that way they hold the belief of it as incredible. And therefore in the Book of Gold, Aristotle in that law through the mediation of reception, alluding to us to this incredible art, knows that it is the rest of the animals from their own part which is of the whole, and in others he demonstrated or not. If you look to the art of their form to allege to them, you ought therefore indeed to know that they sweat in its imitation. In the cause of it, it is written that much is known, in that saying; "by intermediaries": and similar partitioning which is from equal convention in the orb, where, when they stood forming disputes, and procreating. But if it is said, that they might be understood more by their own parts, hence applying I will speak freely [and] supplicate [you] to read the books of Aristotle as true; I can [show] by the authority of Aristotle himself produced, they cannot be understood. Here however let us see to my purpose, concerning the preparation of the heavenly stone, affirming I say, that the soul, and makes the volatile part into the matter, then however of God homogeneous and after the part that part has extenuated the earth, fixed and not sublimated, then let it be dissolved: then [it is] to be disposed, and prepared as Aristotle commands, saying to dispose the area (suppose that aforementioned part the soul, homogeneous by sublimating, dissolving, [ovando—likely "egg-forming"], and having been made volatile) to digestion, i.e., through the aforesaid optimal digestion then the earth of the substance. And so first we examine the solubility, and our humidity through calcination and solution, until the whitest denomination belongs to the measure of the operation, then the aforementioned earth [is] to be reiterated: and let each solution be destroyed in the meridian hour, the root of the signs between the said spirits, the height of the earth that then [dual] part of the earth is thus exercised by the aforementioned imbibitions by its others and anointed, cook, its lime, then let it be dissolved again, until [exorcised], sister, wife, and Mother's Nurse, and also temple. To which body that which will be conferred through one copulation of imbibition will be its aforementioned part by itself, and by our art to meditate until the whole stone is distinctly prepared, and again by itself and purified, thus mixed together it is coupled, sublimated, and having been made volatile, and spirit-ized, pure, and apt mind, to generation: and that which our [science] speaks of by mixing [through] the science of the lower through the uni...