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Tractatvlvs
by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

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Tractatvlvs.
I want to divide this book into chapter 8 or part

1. In the first chapter I want to talk about Mercurio and his nature and also about the
brimstone he has in him.

2. In the other I want to say about the nature of perfect bodies and their sulphur.

3. In the third, about the joining together of the body and spirit, and about the
dissolution of the stone into its material primam.

4. In the fourth, about the extraction of water from the earth.

5. In the fifth from the foundation or pouring over its earth.

6. In the sixth about the way of sublimation of the earth.

7. In the end of the multiplication and fixation of the stone.

8 In the eighth and last chapter I want to say how one should throw the medicine and
all the metals into the suns and moons.

Chapter I

Argentum vivum is cold and damp and God has created all the minerals out of it and
with it and it is airy and so that the Fire breathes when it is but because it stands in it
it makes strange and strange works and it is only a living spirit, There is no equal in
the world that such an effect could be brought about but through this and it
penetrates into all bodies and makes them lighter and gives way. It is a ferment of
the bodies with which it is mixed and then the entire elixir will become white and red.

It is an eternal water, a water of life and Lac virginis, a Brun and Alum whoever from
Trincket does not die. When it will be alive it will have a number of works, when it has
died it will have other things and when it will be solvated it will have the greatest
things. It is a horny snake that impregnates itself in one day it gives birth, it kills with
its poison and flees from Fire.

But the wise ones make that they see the difference and then it does work and
changes then as it is transformed, so it also transforms and as it is tinged, so it is
tinged and as it is coagulated, so it is coagulated, that is why it is among all the
minerals Prefer Argenti vivi conception. Then it is found in all minerals and has
commonality with all (symbolum habet).

But apart from the earthly and brassy and watery or living oil, it is the subtle medium
and many subtle spirits, apart from the earthly water, which has importance and its
movement under itself is bright and flowing and has Silver color. Then it goes out
from the earth and jumps back into the earth and protects itself with waves and in
turn strengthens itself with the moist out of the earth and is figured with the wiped out
spirit and mixed with all the minerals and whereupon it sits on which it will cling firmly
hence they also call it a mother of minerals.

The Argentum vivum, however, can be seen as having a thick substance like a horn
(monoceros id est unicornu) because of the weight of its great weight.

Then it weighs or is heavier than gold when it is in its nature and is of the strongest
composition and uniform nature then it is not separated from one another and cannot
be divided into other parts. Then it either leaves the Fire with its entire substance or
remains in the Fire with it.

In him is necessarily the cause of perfection then it alone is sufficient in every degree
for the path of perfection, namely with his strength because of his good attachment
and strength of his mixture but when some of his parts are made fat through the
desire then it cannot be further corrupted It also doesn't expand any further due to
the influx of the angry flames, then it can't suffer its thinning because of the thickness
and lack of combustion, which is caused by the sharpness that it doesn't have.

The Argentum vivum, however, in its works publicly and completely frees you from
burning and makes you safe and spices up the pouring when it is figted then it is a
tincture that glows with an abundant refreshment of a bright shine and does not
deviate from the mixing because it lasts then one loves it and is a reconciled metal
and a means of putting the tinctures together then it is mixed with them by the
smallest ones and basically attaches itself to them in a more natural way then it is of
their nature: But the moon is mixed with it more easily then through his nature he has
a part in it in his nature but yet in him some of the metals are not drowned and
suppressed then the sun and so you have the greatest secret nut then Mercurius
takes into himself what is of his nature: but rejects the alien He wants his nature to be
more happy with his own nature than with the most foreign and alien nature.

Then it is obviously greater Perfection in them is the mercury that has several parts in
it, then it has a commonality (symbolum) in nature with the minerals, and God has
given it a substance and the substance creates its properties, which in no way occurs
in other things of nature To possess or to have possession is the one thing that
surpasses Fire and is not conquered by him but rests in him in which he rejoices in a
friendly manner.
This some because it is metallic, it understands the whole in itself, which is what we
need for our masterpieces. Therefore it is evident that Argentum has its good
brimstone within it with which the gold and silver are coagulated in the rarest way and
manner of digestion.

From the nature of perfect bodies, that is, the sun and moon, and from their sulphur.

Chapter 2

That gold is the most popular body, the lord of the stones, the king and head of all
the others, which neither corrupts the earth nor does the burning things do any harm,
it is not diminished in the Fire but made much better: then in it it becomes with a
moisture moistened, it is not changed by water, its complexion is tempered and its
nature is the court of the verme celt and dryness and one finds nothing superfluous
or diminished in it because it is created from the subtlest and brightest substance of
the Argenti vivi, and from the few substance of the pure and pure sulfur of the fixed
redness and the whole tingiret the substantiam Argenti vivi. Man holds door and says
the gold is a corpus and ferment of the white and red elixir.

Nor will it be improved or fulfilled with him and no one else: just as pasta cannot be
fermented without its ferment, gold is a body that defends itself and remains for all
eternity.

That's why the philosophists drew it here and held it then they said that gold stays in
the bodies like the sun in the stars then the sun in its light and splendor greens all the
vegetatives and produces all the moist ones. That's why Hermes saw : There will
never be a true and right tincture without the Red Stone. Gold has the first gratum of
nobility among all bodies, then it is the most temperate because of the mixing and
purification of sulfur and mercury.

And it has a lot of the power of sulphur, and little of its substance, and on the other
hand it has a lot of the substance of Mercurii and little of its power and effect. That's
why it's important because of the Mercurii and because of the sulphurous power it's
very raw. And because of the strongest compaction of the sulfur and mercury in their
calc, it is not as moist when attacked and as fat as the other bodies.

Therefore, it does not produce as black lineaturas or lines and lines as the other
metals when it is painted and drawn over bergament . (protrahitur) But when silver or
another metal was mixed with it, it makes Schwartze paint then the fatness of the
mixed body rises to the upper part (ad supersitiem rendit) and makes it white and
moist and because the parts are usually poured ad center That's why it's more
important for the sake of its Argenti vivi .

But the lead is more important because of its Argenti vivi, then the strength of the
parts that are heavily and weakly attached to it and that is why it sounds the least of
all the bodies. But the gold sounds the brightest and sharpest of all because of the
strong and tenacious adhesion to one another. The gold is also not burned by the
fire, which is evenly measured. When the fire is too violent, it consumes everything
that is and arises under the Globo Lunari . It is also not burned by the things that
burn bodies other than sulfur and arsenic, and the masters of art use it to purify and
cleanse it to the highest splendor with bricks and salt.

Dz Silver has a lot of the substance of sulfur and little of its strength: but it has little of
the substance of Mercuri and a lot of its strength, that's why it is white then the color
follows the abundance and variety of strength and virtues but the strength has its
own sit and place in the haze. Its material is the material of gold, then some other
metal, which is why it is more easily transformed into gold and does not require any
other work to change the color and give the weight.

The foam or smoothness of the silver (Lithargirium argenti) is above all good to the
white tincture then its materia is close or related. The silver is a perfect corpus, a little
less, but then the gold is not as heavy as that If it is gold and is from the parts of the
moon, in a damp place it spoils and its reproach is sour; in the fire it diminishes and
burns with sulphur.

The inner part of gold is the outer part of silver and its nature is cold and dry and
takes the tincture into itself. Furthermore, the gold is a complete corpus and without
superfluity or diminution, as it was only made under the earth by melting it, so
whoever mixed the elixir in red. But the silver is a perfect body and feminine when it
has been made with a popular pouring, it is a tincture to the white or elixir which is
not because it is only brought to perfect bodies in nature .

And when these perfect bodies were mixed with the perfect bodies, the imperfect
ones did not come into being nationally, but rather their perfection was diminished
with the perfect ones. But when they become more than perfect in Duplo or in a
variety of hundreds or thousands of parts, the imperfect ones are brought into being
with them, then nature always works badly and the bad perfection in them is
inseparable unless it is brought into alignment with the flying one then the sum of the
fleeing body exceeds the sum of the fixed body and when we can have a complete
corpus from the Argento vivo and from such red sulfur for the red elixir, and the silver
of the same for the white elixir, then we should select them for our elixir , for our
material then these 2. bodies are poorly digested and cooked with a natural quality,
strong without an understanding cleansing.

That's why we can work in them straight away with our Artifical Fire . And even
though nature accomplishes something, it does not have a bad effect on what it has.
Then there is a two-fold sulphuriness in the bodies, some of which are locked up in
them from the substance Argenti vivi at the beginning of its mixing, which we call that
protrudes above. But the other is an external waste of his nature, which we call that it
answers to him or is the same.

And it is very noticeable that the joining of the same two bodies is necessary in this
art for whiteness and rawness. And there are two causes of which one is: even
though gold is that The noblest of the metals and better packed together, perfect and
fixed, but when it becomes dissolved it becomes spiritual and flees like Mercurius
and the like because of its verme and then it has a tincture without number and the
same tincture is called Warm Manly Seed when but that When silver is dissolved in
warm water, it remains nevertheless less fixed than before and has no tincture, or
even a small tincture, and yet is able and ready to accept the tincture in the
temperament of warm and cold and is called female seed cold and dry: That's why
you compose and send your combination via one.

There is also a different ration and the reason why the gold and silver are each
difficult to pour and melt, but when they are put together they flow easily and are also
easily melted, as the goldsmiths are well aware who make fortresses there Golde.

Therefore, if in our stone there is only one under these two defenses, the medicine
will never flow easily through a masterpiece and no tincture will be given. And if he
gives a tincture, it doesn't tincture so much that it resists so much that it doesn't
accept the tincture. This should not be understood from the common moon but from
the philosophical moon, which is why it is called lunaria. That's why I told you that
you won't work without the mercury sun and moon. Then the entire wealth of art lies
in these three.

On the joining together of the body and spirit, and on the dissolution of the stone into
the material primam.

Chapter 3

It is certain that every thing except that into which it is dissolved then the Celt is
transformed into water by the verme, therefore it is evident that it was only water
before the egg. But all metals are created from Mercurio, which is why they are also
resolved into him .

That is why the first government of the stone is that one solves it like roughly
Argentum vivum, that it is brought into its first material, but this is history through the
Argentum vivum, so that it can bring the Sun of Mon back into its nature and material
primam.

But when The Argentum vivum has in itself uncleanliness or a lot of yeast
(feculentiam) and burning without ignition and a watery substance, therefore we have
to consider its superfluity take away and fulfill what is lacking so that those who are
jealous or envious do not create and bring an evil color into the rejection and erase
its wateriness in the same form so that it does not make the entire material fleeting in
the rejection. Which property is the substance of making good, not burning but
figuring and defending before the medicinal burn.

That is why Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Eggs are created outside of Him: which must
happen because of impurity. It is noticeable that a two-fold Materia Prima is one is
close but the other is not.

(una est propinqua altera remota) the near materia is Argentum vivum, but the
remota or distance is the water then the Argentum vivum, was first water and then
Argentum vivum, therefore the right one and would be the beginning of our work is
the dissolution of the stone The solvated bodies have been brought to the nature of
spirit then they are no longer fixed.

Then the solution of the body is with the congelation of spirit. Therefore you should
be patient, cook the grater and the incerir, and don't be afraid to repeat this often,
then what will be eaten will be softened by the water . The more you rub it the softer
you make it and make the rough parts subtle until it stands up enough.

And these parts are divided when the spirit impastiret everything that is impastired is
dissolved from the whole and the impastation history with superfluous grinding
inceration and frying then through the grinding frying and Fire the bound and glue-
resistant parts are divided which are there in the bodies. But the bodies that are
solvated and brought into the nature of spirit are never separated from one another:
just as water mixes with water. Then nature rejoices when the bride and bridegroom
are copulated then the opinion of our work is nothing different then that the purest
substance of Mercuri was read from the bodies then the elixir arises solely from
them.

The first mode or mode of solution and nature is putrefaction, but there are many
species or types of putrefaction and corruption, which is why the first natural
beginning is the material fulfilling materia as I said above: the other beginning is the
color that moves the material and Putrefaction, the characters of Putrefaction are the
Black color, a stinky smell and a material that is subtle to attack as the first
Mercurius.

Then when the Werme does and works in the first wet it makes the sword, which is
the raven's head, that is the beginning of the Werck. Likewise, note that submersion,
combination, complexion, composition and mixing mean and are called one in this
art. Then nothing will be put together and tied together if it is not mixed together.
Then the premix is the mixing through the least that is through the indivisible union
added to it. (unio)

You should also know for sure that the entirety of this masterpiece is not in the
putrefaction, then when it is not rotten you can neither solvate nor pour it and when it
is not solvated it composes itself and becomes nothing. Likewise, you should know
that in every work there are three dimensions that divide one thing equally, namely
the width, height and depth and this is obviously visible from the body that we see.

As an example (verbi gratia) our stone is white in its first creation and so it appears in
the shape or appearance that's why we call it cold and damp then it is like that.
Therefore we should study and learn why our watery stone is because it is cold and
moist and a natural disposition or orderly destiny is called a clearly and high body,
but the broad one is the middle orderly disposition through which one goes to the
deep disposition or order.

But the middle one is under the depth and height as between which are kept like this
or as under the objectionable ones there is a possible passage through it where the
other qualities are not destroyed and corrupted then its high order is cold and damp
that is why one should use the others Qualitatem destroy namely the moisture
through the putrefaction, as then it becomes thick and its moisture turns into dryness
and thus becomes a passage from the high order to the medium which is there celt
and dryness and is called the breadth then it has from the cold and moisten the cold
from the dry and warm from the dry: that is why it is the middle one. After that but
through the Werme the Celt so in the body What remains is transformed into those
who are external, which is contrary to the deep disposition and order. The body is the
hidden part of the body which appears best and can be seen clearly in Aristotle.

About the extraction of water from the earth.

Chapter 4

After the materia is putrefied to make a body and spirit, which is impossible to
happen in another place then in the air through sublimation.

Therefore you should know that our stone is divided into two parts, namely the upper
part that rises and the lower part that remains fixed in the ground. And yet these two
are partly the same in strength.

And that is why the philosopher says that this is equal to the one above and this
division is necessary to perform the miracle of one thing, namely the stone which is
part of the earth which is called a plurality and ferment: the part above is the soul
which is the part makes the whole stone come alive and forces it to wake up and live
again.

Therefore, when the highly praised separation has taken place, many miracles are
performed through the composition of the stone.

It is to be noted whether this stone of ours is not divided into four parts, namely into
the four elements in the first expression as indicated above and said in four parts,
namely one that rises up and is not fixed, the other that remains and is called fixed,
and earth or ferment, which increases and ferments the entire stone , as said: you
must have one of the part that is not fixed in a good size and give the stone that is
the purest and completely without filth, it bites the entire stone through the power of
the spirit, which is not fixed, leads to the heights with sublimation. And this is what the
Philosopher says: He ascends from earth to heaven.

Then you have to repeat the stone that is so raised over marble stone with the
element that was drawn from the stone in the first cutting . The same element is
called the water of the stone: And it should be fried so often until through the subtlety
the stone rises into the earth through the repetition and so it assumes the upper
power by sublimating and the lower power by descending.

And so you have the honor of the clarity of this world and flee from you all darkness
Poverty and illness then when it is so destroyed it calls all illness and it is a stone of
all strengths then there is no comparison of this stone against other stones then it
overcomes more visibly and naturally white pierces all solid things, penetrates them
and is transformed by the defeat.

But the philosophers have said that only water does everything for itself, everything is
dissolved and everything is torn apart without any help or assistance from anyone
else.

Funny and beautiful colors tend to appear in it. The transformation of the body into
water is a tincture of every body. This is a difference between the tincture of water
and the tincture of oil. Then the tincture of the water washes away and cleanses the
tincture but the oil tinctures and ferments.

From the foundation or pouring over its earth.

Chapter 5

Therefore pour the water over the earth and mix it with the grinding and soon boil it
every week and then gently calcine it until the earth drinks a fifth part of its water.
You should know that the earth must be increased, first moderately with its water,
then with greater or more water, as can be seen in the raising of a child.

Therefore, rub the earth open and soak it leisurely every eight days, boil it and then
calcine it moderately in a few minutes and do not let yourself get annoyed or be
tempted to repeat the work so often, then the earth will not bear fruit without constant
and frequent moistening.

Therefore, because it is dry, it thirsts as a thirsty one, its moist and waterless and the
soil is not good until the earth and water become one body. Therefore you should not
hold back or stop your hand from cutting and frying until the earth is dry and white,
which white is begotten and brought into existence apart from such constant, good
and dry cutting and frying.

However, you should make sure that you constantly imbibe the earth and with long
friction after the earth has dried out, you must therefore notice the weight everywhere
so that the extreme dryness or unnecessary moisture does not spoil the work. And
cook as much with frying as the dissolution with snacks requires and wants. Please
note any and all changes During the calcination of the earth, the water from the
temperate earth was poured over it, namely not too little nor too much.

Then if there is too much, it becomes a sea of confusion, if it is too little, it is burnt
into an extinguished regenerated (in favillam comburetur) Then sweetly and not
hastily from eight in eight days with moistening the earth, boil and calcine it until it
has its water You will then drink, confirm the work with many changes, then you will
not see the tincture for a long time and you will not be able to complete it until the
work is perfect.

Therefore, when you are in the works, you should make an effort to remember all the
signs that appear in every decoction and to investigate their causes.

Then there are three different colors: black, white and citrine, so when the black
compts it is perfect but not fulfilled. That's why the Fire make all the changes in the
calcination, (vigora ignem) until the earth comes out white outside the stercke of the
fewer then like the calor agent in the moist begets and brings the swords so begets
and brings the agent, (that so the white one does and eats in the drying area. If
therefore the earth does not become white, then rub it with your water and repeat it
and calcinir the Azoth and Fewer wash the earth and remove its darkness from it
then the preparation story always with the water and how the comfort of the water is
So will the clarity of the earth and the more you wash it, the whiter the earth will
become.
Therefore a philosopher says, when you will find him you should know that it is the
beginning of the work. After the putrefaction, however, it does not become red with
the true red, it also becomes citrinent, of which one of the philosophers says: It often
becomes red and also often citrine, often it melts and is also often coagulated before
the right white. Therefore say to each other: It dissolves itself and also coagulates
itself and decorates itself with redness.

It also turns green in front of the white. The peacock color appears in front of the
white one. That's why someone says: You should know that all the colors in the world
(that you can only imagine) appear in front of the white one and then the right white
one follows . Someone says this: You have to wait for your benefit Let it cook until it
appears louder, just like the fish's eyes shine, and then you should know that our
stone is coagulated in justice or sincerity.

Another philosopher says: When you find that the white goes over everything, be
sure and don't doubt then the red is hidden in the same white and then you don't
have to pull it out but cook it until it becomes the right red. And yet under the right
and true red and right white citrine of a gold color of which this is said. When the
fewer is increased, it is added to the citrino or sweet-smelling oil. And another says:
Do n't despise the grayling then God will in turn bestow and give it the melting and
then the king will ultimately be adorned with a red crown by God's will .

That's why you have to try this masterpiece then the composition will not be without
the marriage and without the putrefaction, and the marriage is the subtle thing with
the thick mixing and putrefying, rubbing and frying, moistening until it is mixed at the
same time and becomes one and there is no contradiction like that Water mixed with
the water.

Then the thick will be able to hold the subtle and the soul will want to argue with the
few and suffer such things and the spirit will be able to be squeezed and be poured
into the bodies.

But you should know when you will mix the body with moisture and when the
moisture will come to it, the moisture will be transformed over the body and dissolve
the body and then the spirit cannot leave or leave it, then it will imbibe itself in the
moisture and so on Spirits are otherwise volatile until they are mixed with the body,
then he is able to fight with the fire and its flames: But these people cannot overcome
them with a good tempering and long or great work.

But the ancient philosophers gave our stone many names such as Amalgama, Vitriol,
Blood because of the red color and other unnamed names. They called it Eijsen
because it cannot be watered . When the body is deprived of moisture, this is what
happens needed that the dry corpus not flow, which first flowed through the moisture
and was fleeting then the bodies become Necessarily figed by the priming or naming
of the moisture, which is called calcination by the philosophers and the thing
putrefaction or pulverization, from the moisture the solid part and through the
calcination the spirits are now fixed and the white becomes hard and the fleeing
becomes fixed So nature transforms nature .
The Turba says: One makes a change in the complexions, namely from the cold and
wet to a warm and dry one or from the phlegmatic to the choleric according to the
Medicis. Through the sun and with a slow boil the spirits are congelated from the
remaining ones If the work is destroyed, as Bonellus says, then when you light a
strong fire before taking the red one, something will become that is of no use to us.

Then all the right philosophers who say that it has to happen through a slight change
and they testify to this for the sake of the reasons presented. Then they say that we
must govern the holiday sweetly until our brimstone becomes incombustible. Hence
from seeds. The seed must not be cut or cut off before the time of the earth. The
philosophers have called this our stone Salamandram, then just as the salamander is
nourished and lives only through the fire, this is accomplished and so is our stone.

How to sublimate the earth.

Chapter 6

A great and excellent philosopher says thus: What you are looking for is in the
yeasts, so you should take them when they are extracted from the alembic and rub
them hard and soak them with their water and dry them in a leisurely session or in
the sun and this should happen often. Then from such preparation the smoke
structure is made for sublimation.

Therefore Geber says: Therefore, apart from the various repetitions of imbibition and
frying, most of its wateriness is eradicated. The rest, however, through the
sublimation, you take the previously mentioned yeasts and make them convenient for
the sublimation that you first give them a mild smoke and moderately a larger bite,
the same smoke rises pure and white to the heights and when it should not be history
for the first time it is repeated so often about them that they become so and at least
without any support attached to them as then history becomes a fixed part of them.

After its strange seasoning, it will too A variety of medicines were created and
brought about: sometimes Saturnus or Jupiter &c. But no one should sublimate the
earth into the works of sophism, but only into our elixir.

And you should not mix what remains like this with what is rising like this, but put
each one in part, then what remains in the ground you should repeat to sublimate
through the uncorrupted Mercurium until it rises completely and completely and
remember that you don't even come As said before, this is the philosophical stone if
you do not sublimate it beforehand because there is no unification of the body and
spirit through the sublimation.

First you have to sublimate the material and fix it when a natural union has taken
place before, the fixation should follow. But you should not make the materiam fixam
fly away and at the same time incorporate a part of the materiæ fixæ, and two parts
of the prepared Mercurii. Then sublimate the sublimated, bring it together and repeat
at all times that what remains in the bottom and rub it through with new or fresh
Mercurio the way and the way that was said, everything will be sublimated.
Then, as the philosopher says, the power of the sulfur, which is white and does not
burn, congelates the mercury, and that is the best thing of our masterpiece through
which the elixir turns into silver and when the best sulfur becomes clear with red and
in it the by the power of the silver sulphur, which does not burn, it will be a thing from
which the elixir will become gold. And as the philosophers teach, the sulfur should
first turn white into silver and then turn red into gold: then there will be no gold unless
it was silver first.

Then no thing can come from the first to the third then through the other then there is
no passage from the first to the last then through the middle: that is why the black
cannot become a perfect citrine unless it was first white because the citrine is made
up of a few things the red one and the purest white one is judged. The Citrino cannot
become white unless it was black in the first place.

So gold cannot become silver unless it first corrupts and becomes black. Then the
better cannot be made worse by its corruption: then out of one corruption the other is
begotten. Who therefore has the gold? The doer wants to transform silver through
corruption and the silver into gold: Then you sulfur that doesn't burn can become red
sulfur through a greater dilution of the fibre , then citrine is nothing else than a
complete dilution.

The swords nothing then a wash because the verme so there in the wet which
straightens out the swords and the verm in the dry causes the white and also in the
white the citrine and excessive redness. Then the sulfur becomes white and red from
a material of metals which is completely purified and yet boiled and digested by the
variety.

That's why in Argento vivo the white sulphur, like in gold, is the red one. And there is
actually no such sulfur on earth, neither white nor red, without it arising in these
bodies. And that's why we have to subtly prepare the bodies so that we can have
their sulfur and Argentum vivum from them, from which the gold and silver under the
earth were brought.

Then when I didn't see gold and silver, I would say without a doubt that Alchimia
wasn't true. Then there are shining bodies in which there are tinging rays that tint the
other bodies in white and red after which they will be dressed. But the Alembicus and
Cucurbita should be put together so that Mercurius cannot go out, then he will not be
sublimated by the force of the air and therefore when he finds a place open, he
comes out in smoke and destroys the Magisterium . Then the whole opinion of the
work is nothing other than that the stone is taken that one knows well.

You should know that he is the stone that the philosophers know that has powers
and virtues above all the powers of the stones to sublimate it and put it in a
philosophical vessel and with it the stone will be sublimated until it is made pure and
pure in the final sublimation .

And this is the first order, which is called the first eruption, which is the story of the
fact that the purest and subtlest substance was lured out. The other is the solution
that the materia was dissolved in water. The third , the putrefaction, then Morienes
says: There has never been anything that a soul has been brought to birth, nor
anything that then changes through the putrefaction and metamorphosis The
putrefaction happens when one thing spoils, the other is shown.

The fourth is the washing away, then the purified and dirty thing must be washed
away and cleansed from the uncleanness that is corrupt and harmful . And they said:
Then as long as the water remains above the earth, the more the earth will be
washed away and cerified, so that the washing and ceration are one. The fifth
season is coagulation, then the water must be transformed into the earth by gently
boiling in our sun and completely coagulated and made dry and then transformed
into dust. The sixth is calcination, therefore you should know that a calcined thing is
more convenient than that which is not calcined and is a bad fixion.

Therefore, there have been many philosophers who have called calcination a fixation
and have been right about it: Then these paths are all in sublimation, then I say that
for sure whoever makes the sublimation perfect commits the whole work. And you
should know that this is completely accomplished in a furnace or oven and in a
vessel. And these six orders can be accomplished by anyone with understanding .
Therefore, do not be negligent in sublimation, then as the purification will be, you will
also have perfection. I want to tell you now and here what sublimation is. Sublimation
is an elevation of the subtlest parts from the fixed parts. The parts that are not fixed
are raised and elevated by the smoke, that is by the wind: Then, as we said, you
have to protect them so that they do not fly: but rather are made fixed with the fixed
parts and remain: And a faster one give watering.

You should understand that the right sublimation is when we make a separation of
the parts that are elevated by them above and that remain there and below. Yes, we
want them to come at the same time as their own, then in our stone, first of all the
first cleaning that is carried out by the solution, we don't think that anything is too little
or superfluous. For this reason, Geber said: With him the stone should be sublimated
until it ultimately complies with the purity of the solution. Then he said: With him this
is without another, which is done without another external thing That's why all the
laboratories have been deceived who sublimate with yeast and don't know what
they're doing: Or what the philosophical stone is and don't do anything unless they
know and have n't taught philosophical sublimation. Geber says: Then the
Philosophorum, your stone, is a medicine in which the entire magisterium is located,
which is not mixed with anything external and foreign, nothing is removed without
what is superfluous, which is removed in the process and is the first purification that
is accomplished through sublimation will.

Now I have shown you sufficiently that if you want to do our sublimation, you do not
add or remove anything from our stone, but instead place the entire substance in a
certain vessel , as we said in the first disposition, and that you close it tightly and
place it put it in an oven and immediately do it with grayling on top and on top so that
the two parts of the vessel are covered until the material is dissolved and then give it
a gentle break until most of it is turned into dust, which happens within thirty days
and when the distillations that we said happen, the sublimation solution, distillation
down the slope, putrefaction, washing off, ceration, coagulation and fixio has
happened.
And you should know that the philosophers have given many such and various
names for the efforts and works that are in reality only one and with a single effort all
at the same time and at once at one time and with one work are committed and
accomplished and have such They did it so that it would be an unworthy and dark
whiteness.

The philosopher then says the same thing about how the earth is soaked and rubbed
with water and dried by the temperate heat of our suns and the entire material is
transformed into earth - he only knows perfectly how to do this. Therefore Hermes
the Philosophorum said to her father: His entire power is when it will be transformed
into earth, that is, when the water will be transformed into earth .

On the multiplication and fixation of the stone.

Chapter 7

Now it follows from the gathering and copulation of the dust that they bear fruit and
their fruit remains for ever and I will teach how to sublimate the dust should show that
they can remain in the Fewer and be united with the bodies and mixed with them.

But the fixation is a convenient combination of a flying thing in the apartment. But the
reason for this invention is that all tinctures and modifications were prepared and
transformed into a different nature. But it is figured like this: Take what is sublimated
there and divide it by the cucurbitas or vrinalia, as the size of the material requires
and the sign of its fixation is when the material no longer rises in the alembicum or
you can see it growing very much do it and then it will appear on the hour. Or place
the body over an iron sheet if it stays fixed so don't repeat it.

Then take the pre-coated powder straight away and place it over the oven of the
replenishment and first give it a gently ashed Fire for several days so that you see
that nothing more rises through such a Fire than then gradually make the Fire
stronger and like that for and for six or ten hours and when you become inside that
nothing arises and becomes elevated, surround it with the strongest fire and do the
same until the material is fixed.

And one should know that the spirit and soul are not really united with the world: then
all the colors that one can think of in the world appear then the work is secured and
completed in one color, namely white and from there all the colors come together.
Then the prophecy is the beginning and firmament of the entire body. It will not later
be transformed into a variety of colors, except into red, which will finally be the end.

Citrination, however, is the difference between the white and the red and is not called
a perfect color: in the decoction but after the white you will not easily be able to make
mistakes and make mistakes. Then the government of the Fewers is gradually
increased after the whiteness is complemented by the citrine and finally the redness
as I said before.

And know that the Argentum vivum is a Fire that burns, kills and holds bodies
together in one government. And the more the bodies are ground up and mixed, the
more they are made more efficient and worn out.
Another philosopher says that the superfluous lighted fire makes the wet one emptied
the cold but the fewers makes the work uncompensated. Mercke wol: The Fewer's
government should therefore be based on nature and an example of the four times.
At first, namely in winter, the earth received. In the other, namely in spring, she
brings herbs and flowers. In the third season, namely summer, the fruits become
ripe.

In autumn, however, that is in the fourth season, the fruits are collected, which is why
Mercurius is killed in the same form in our work in the first season and the entire work
is turned into dust and the earth is conceived to be transformed into a different nature
She black in the same decoction . In the other seasoning it rises to its nature with the
white. In the third the fruits appear and then the redness that is there at the end of
the work appears. In the fourth season, the fruits are ripened and harvested.

This is enough of the fixation.

How you should throw the artzneij and how you like each metal in the sun and moon.

Chapter 8

From what I promised at the beginning of this book, I have fulfilled the end up to
making the great masterpiece the most excellent white and red elixir: Here I want to
finally say how one should reject this mode and path is the fulfillment of the work and
the joy we hoped for and desired. But the white elixir makes it completely white and
brings every metal to perfect whiteness.

But it is necessary to know that one metal is more easily brought to the elixir then the
other is then added to the elixir more perfectly than the others. And when we find a
perfect and very closely related metal and the vice or lack of imperfection is excused
in the near by the very further which metals but are now very distant or closely
related, that is clear enough to see in many books.

And because the white or red elixir is very spiritual, it nevertheless affects nature less
and it is no wonder that it can be mixed with the body over which it is thrown - it only
melts the corpus alone. It's hard to throw over a lot of thousands (super mille millia)
and they flow through obviously and visibly.

That's why I want to give you a big secret: you should divide one part by a thousand
Mix the closely related body and close it completely in a convenient container and put
it in an oven for three days until it is inseparably put together. And that is the work of
the three days then you can throw a part of the same body together over a thousand
parts of each body forever and ever without end, but those who are so related are
always the closest and best to it. And that is the work of a day, an hour or a minute.

There is also another way of throwing: Take a hundred parts of the Mercurii, which
has been washed with salt and vinegar, and place it over the fire in a crucibulo, but
when it looks like it is smoking, throw a part over this hundred part of the Mercurii,
like this the whole thing becomes a medicine. Then place a part of the same
medicine over another hundred parts of Mercurii, by the warm Fire: And there is
another medicine and so on.
In the last rejection, a part of the medicine that is finally congelated transforms a
hundred part of the Mercurii into quite pure gold or silver according to which the
second elixir is prepared.

There is another way of throwing: put a part of the medicine that is reported above
over sixty part of which Mercurii has been washed off and put it in a glass vessel and
keep the wool the nit ademeth and put in warm grayling three days and when your
Medicine that Mercurium will keep, you should know that it is perfect and then all of
these sixty parts are a medicine like the first.

And in this way you can taste the excellence of the elixir: which should always be
multiplied. Sometimes one part of the medicine transforms fifty or a hundred or two
hundred or even a thousand or untold parts. And the whole thing is always a
medicine that is retained by the Mercurio and completely coagulated.

But the way of the work is that you throw a part of the above-mentioned medicine on
a hundred pieces of cast gold, so that it breaks and it will be a medicine which throws
a part over a hundred of each cast metal, transforming it into the best Gold and when
you throw it over the moon it transforms all bodies into moons, in this way you can
transform the sun into mon into the venerem, saturnum, jovem and Martem.

But if the medicine or pre-mixed elixir has no input, then take some of the extracted
stone in the first effect and the above-mentioned Mercuri Ana, and mix at the same
time and in Corporir, in the rubbing of the stone and then with the bathing distillation,
so that it fits together the better and then make it dry and when you want, you can
take the water through the Alembicum, and bring the same with Imbibirn as often as
possible into Corporirn, drying until the aforementioned medicine with the melted
Mercurio has been incorporated into Corporit. When this happens, put it in its entirety
in an unrinal that has a round base or bottom and when you put the lid of the reprisal
on it, you should give it the gift of a light and ashes through its degrees, as is shown
above.

And when it feels good to you, do so by the appointed Mercurio until the pre-painted
medicine or material is figured and is easier to cast than wax. And so you will have
the elixir or the right stone that fills the Philosophorum, which transforms the
Mercurium and all imperfect bodies in sun and moon over which you cannot have a
better stone .

Closing speech of the entire epilogatio. Totius.

That's why I say that the whole summa of the whole work is nothing else than that
man takes the stone that is known in the capitulis of the books and man should drive
it for and for the work of the sublimation of the first degree, so that it is free from the
impurity as perishable has been purified.

Afterwards, its white or red addition should be made subtle with the solvated until it
becomes fleeting in the final mode of sublimation. But he is further portrayed with the
wise men of fixation until he completely rests in the cruelty of the farmer . But after
that you should keep the fixed part with the other and not make the fixed part flee
through the modum of solution and sublimation and the fleeing fix and the fixed solve
and repeat the fleeing and make it fix until it flows and ends in the fulfillment of the
suns and moon.

And in this way the most delicious secret nut is brought about, which is superior to all
the goods in the world and an incomparable treasure of all philosophy.