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

coagulation are perfected: for from those, from the regimen of the remiss fire, of one white sulphur, where the stannic? tin-like matter previously [was] to excel in two ends of coagulation: but now of that added [is] the second operation, which will be fire to increase? the heat, because of one red sulphur, where the cause and principle of imperfection? coheres, it needs too much digestion, which through the force of higher nitre might be perfected by sin, by living purification. The supreme daily stone of gold, and its work of heat is digestion, whence instead of the aforementioned humidity the substance [is] finer or of the reddest sulphur weaves?: Thus far for the essence? of that white, where something [is] this so that it may be one, and into this we have added, thus the red operation resurrected?. For in the species, two other months, all that white medicine, makes and the armenian? color a red pigment, indeed also through fire, so that you may see. And in this way the medicine is taken, he calls it the water of wisdom because into it is infused the genus, by dissolving, nourishing, generating through resurrection? of multiplication, he wants one species [to be] the form of spirituum spirits, and substance. For nitre, through the deep, and to be informed which are these metallic bodies, and in evacuating and being made to be conformed, it will not only be & compound, they take and the medicine rather, nor [is it] anything else of medicine: maximally in the essence of one unity it is: And therefore in these medium operations so material, which enumerating, in the apparatus one of the stone of its matter or substance, and from 4 elements composed from these two, by the half of spirits namely Sol Sun/Gold and Luna Moon/Silver, or gold and silver which is matter? and from those in mixture, and in solution, because from the restoration of things which will be that universal spirit, or that virtue, the information in the undivided spirit intent exists which to perfection, coagulates the sun's matter to be made whitest, and rubified, and thus to be made finally? the stone to that information. We must also return consciousness of the stone, for without something added in which is that spirit, that wealth of this red [stone]. Whence Geber Jabir ibn Hayyan, medieval alchemist affirms that there is one stone, one medicine, and one object from it. To which spirit nothing to this is minimally helpful, unless about the thing in its preparation we have warned above?: and similarly nothing is seen [to be] clear. For experienced metallic authors [say] that they place the stone of matters, through medicine by preparation & proportion. Therefore from experiments take for yourself what in this way is said to be made most high?, to pray the dispensation of God not