Major Elucidator or Illuminations on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

water, and from water, fire; thus you have the art.

Alius Another: Whoever can bring forth a hidden thing is a master of the art.

Morienes: Whoever can quicken the soul will experience it.

Alphidius: Unless this vapor rises upward, you will have nothing of it.

Calid: Extinguish the fire of one thing with the coldness of another thing.

Avicenna: Make the blind seeing, and the seeing blind, then you have the mastership.

Splendor Solis: In the dissolution, the living silver is like the acting one, but in the coagulation, it is the suffering one in which work is done. Therefore, this art is