Book of Truth and the Philosophers — 1664 German MS

As is hereafter
placed before your eyes,
which outwardly
guides this spiritual radiance, and
truly shines in reality,
because that which
burns and shines, or glows fiercely,
the Sun ☉ shall
shine before God in prayer,
so that we become wise
in this Saturnian realm the physical, leaden world that must be transformed.
As in the Golden Age original: "aureo seculo", here fire
through the Holy Spirit original: "Spiritu sancto", until the time of the
Sabbath the mystical rest and completion of the work,
And the new heavenly
progeny offspring/results,
Where finally things have
determined reached their end, wherein an
equality, and the poor miserable ones
shall be found, when the
Time passes, we for help
at hand and for the secret Medicine—
kept for a long healthy life—
which was brought by the philosopher the alchemist.

When the Sun goes into its own
house, as in Leo the astrological sign of the Lion,
according to Cabalistic mystical Jewish-influenced understanding, it is
directed, and the Lion swallows the Sun,
or the house burns. Thus
the fiery Trigon a triangular group of three zodiac signs belonging to the element of fire
acts inwardly upon it, or the fiery spirit,
so long, namely, until the Sun,
House, or the Lion are entirely burning,
or swallowed, in the Sun-lye ☉.
Thus the Sun remains a magnificent, visible
radiance, and it may already be used
for the Sun-proof ☉,
if one wishes. Wherefrom, if the orderer
of the Wine, with the Water of Life original: "wasser deß lebens",
is used according to the art.
If one places it in the horse's belly an alchemical term for a warm, fermenting bed of horse manure used for gentle heat,
it will, at first after three hours,
but if one wishes to linger for a longer time,
become an Elixir a medicinal or transmutational essence.
But the Water of Life must endure several times—