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

barely dry / it becomes moist again in the same place, the discourse is about the Spirit, and it is said, he adds however until elsewhere he says everywhere, where it becomes moist it can produce a species of digestion and of inimicable action through this coagulation, and of ascent, the cohesion of spirits, and in the body vico vitriol/glass nothing remains unless they must be all those things, which becomes moist and is spoken of. And if it does not inform its species otherwise from itself to another nature where it might maximally be able, until the body exerts and gives just as heat in that which the salmon an alchemical term for a specific preparation is ordered. Again he says we do not only among them barely become moist, and mimic that, each in them may become one, etc. In a similar way he argues that the medicine will inform the virtue, and from the same stone it ought to exit, the coldness of water drying, and the heat of fire coagulating little by little. He wished, from them, the force of this heat outside of one sun, so that thus it may draw its Air of supreme humidity. In this, know that water agrees with them in the frigidity of water, and in the heat of air they alone disagree. Therefore in their admixture, heat ought to conquer the cold, and thus be united in the mode of frigidity. And from this it will cause as if a habit of coagulation in this said body, then into whiteness through ascension, and through the fusion of humidity and re-boiling, and to the augmentation of much water and of the loss of proportion, as here it is clearly seen that by being made? it is said our Stone will be by being made under the substantial form of Whiteness and know that one is the end in the beginning of the said coagulation, until it appears to the one, and of infinite varied color, until the Stone is clothed with a coagulated species, and whitened: wherefore in which know, that the appearance of other colors, all destroys the remaining species of whiteness, sensible, and permanent, under the aforesaid Whiteness form and being, and substantial: which will be here medicine in light and being, said white Stone and being, Air of the moon, whose generative animation and multiplication [is] into the infinite: which is the great white medicine in the whiteness, it will be united in many colors: behold the promise sublime to us, and convening with the white saltpetre? in the middle of us is the substance of perfection. Which medicine of ours will be the cause of vivifying, of reducing those to medicine alone, we must marvel at it and increase the heat seen of the best digestion: as the Author says to us: which under enters it may become one in the ambrones a technical term for mixing vessels that is until you have water from fire and from fire, from water again. It will have in a perfect way other subsequent opinions, less bitter, and the water and fire are conquered. Thus if water becomes moist just as whitened, and by turns mixing each other, two to yield: the first discourse until it lacks the whitening in its invocation, and in the end it will obtain the fire of corruption in the fire of whiteness then our cause most maximally in