...and spoke through the light into the most subtle parts of the slime (not that Salt was created solely from the spirit of the Devil in the center / because the respective purest parts were still found everywhere in the slime / but rather that the best, most powerful, and most abundant Salt would be generated in the center). Upon this, the Slime-Salt began to work; it seized the new light [this was unusual and a special divine power in its operation / for without a medium, namely Spirit, the light could not normally have penetrated into the most subtle parts of the slime, which later became Air] and drew some of it together, which later became partly the vehicle or dwelling of the light, and is precisely that which is called Spirit; but partly it had to step out of the form of the Spirit and—during the continuing movement between the thinning Light-Spirit and the contracting Slime-Salt—change into subtle Salt (Spirit-Salt) within the water-parts of the slime. And antiquity calls this subtle, volatile salt by many names, but primarily Mercury In alchemy, Mercury is one of the three primary principles (Tria Prima), representing volatility and the spirit.; I, however, call it Spirit-Salt, the Universal Salt Mercury,

Concerning Salt.

volatile & Astral; from these two salts many others arose due to the common and varied union of Mercury and Vitriol Vitriol here refers to the "fixed" or "solid" principle, contrasting with the "volatile" Mercury. [the upper volatile and lower fluid salts], of which two salts Kitchen-Salt Common table salt (sodium chloride). and Saltpeter Potassium nitrate, used in gunpowder and as a chemical reagent. are the most prominent. [NB. Although there is less Vitriol than Mercury in our matter or World-Slime, a Kitchen-Salt is nevertheless produced from it in the dead head dead head: Caput mortuum; the useless residue or "worthless remains" left in a flask after distillation. during distillation; this is because the white Mercury of the slime passes over the retort in the water as Saline Spirit and Oil, so that the small amount of Mercury remaining behind allows the weight of the Vitriol original Latin: Pondus Vitrioli to prevail over it, from which a Kitchen-Salt is formed. Exactly how much Mercury and Vitriol must be together, I have not been able to examine precisely until now due to many hindrances. For when the new light, in its first appearance in the dark World-Slime, was seized by the Slime-Salt and thickened partly into Spirit in the air-parts of the slime, and into Salt in the water-parts, the light worked within those water-parts. Through Spirit, Salt becomes so strong a Slime-Salt that in several parts—according to the nature of the place original Latin: pro ratione loci in the universal slime where they were working original Latin: in visco universali ubi operabantur—the light, the Spirit, and the Spirit-Salt prevailed over the most subtle parts of the Vitriol, thinning them greatly and finally, through the strong contraction of the...