The Assembly of the Philosophers

Proposition VI.

Everything that lacks red smoke original: "fumo rubeo", when enclosed in a small vessel over a proper fire, does not enter into the composition of this work in the role of the feminine principle feminine principle: the passive, "mercurial" component of the alchemical process, intended to be fertilized by the masculine "sulfur". By the two aforementioned maxims referring to Propositions V and VI, alum and salts are excluded, as well as every kind of borax original: "baurachiorum" and vitriol original: "gignarum"; likely referring to various metallic sulfates or salts, and all liquids proceeding from them.

Proposition VII.

No thing of a single number meaning a single, solitary substance can complete a work of a higher order. From this it is most clearly drawn that the Philosophers' Stone Philosophers' Stone: the legendary alchemical substance capable of perfecting base metals and human health is made from two things: namely, the male and the female, or the red and the white These colors refer to the active sulfur and the passive mercury respectively.

Proposition VIII.

Whatever cannot be completed in a single vessel and in a single number is unsuitable for this work. And from this, a plurality of vessels is especially excluded The author advocates for the "Single Vessel" theory, where the entire transformation occurs within one sealed container, often called the Hermetic Vase.

Proposition IX.

Whatever within the space of one hundred days