THE ASSEMBLY OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.

...therefore our nature rejoices. Take, therefore, the cloud which the elders commanded you to take, and cook it with its body, until it becomes tin stannum While literally "tin," in this context it refers to a specific metallic stage in the purification process.. And according to custom, cleanse it of its blackness, wash it, and roast it with an even fire until it is whitened. Moreover, by the governance of quicksilver argento vivo Mercury, often called "living silver.", the whole body is whitened, for nature converts nature. Take, therefore, Magnesia, and alum water, and niter water, and sea water, and iron water, and whiten them with smoke. Because that smoke is white, and it whitens all things; by this smoke, whatever you desire to be whitened is whitened.

Mix that smoke with its own dregs original: 'fæci'; the solid residue or sediment left after distillation. until it is coagulated and becomes exceedingly white. Roast this white copper æs Likely referring to the "body" of the metal being transformed. until it doubles itself; for when the Magnesia is whitened, it does not allow the spirit to flee original: 'spiritus fugere non dimittit'; preventing volatile elements from evaporating., nor does it allow the shadow of the copper to appear, because nature contains nature.

Receive, therefore, all you sons of the doctrine, the sulfurous white, with salt and dew, whitened even with the flower of white salt, until it becomes exceedingly white. And know that the flower of white salt is Ethel of Ethelia original: 'Ethel de Ethelia'; a cryptic term, likely an Arabic-derived name for a sublimated spirit or vapor.. Roast it, therefore, for seven days until it becomes like gleaming marble marmor coruscans, because when it is so, it is the greatest secret arcanum; for sulfur is mixed with sulfur, and from it the greatest work is made because of their closeness to one another, for natures meeting their own nature are glad.

Take, then, Mardeck original: 'Mardeck'; likely litharge or lead oxide., and whiten it through gadenbe original: 'gadenbe'; a technical term for urine used in chemical reactions., that is, urine, and vinegar, and permanent water; roast and coagulate it until it does not melt in a fire stronger than its previous fire. Cover the mouth of the vessel tightly so that the flower the volatile essence does not flee, and it may hold its kin with it and cause its whiteness to catch fire. But beware of increasing the fire too much, for if you kindle the fire before the proper time, it becomes red, which is of no use to you, because in the beginning of the governing you desire white. Afterward, coagulate it, and then you make it red.

And let your fire be gentle in whitening until it is coagulated. And know that when it is coagulated, we call it the "soul" animam, and that then it is more quickly converted from nature into nature. This, therefore, is sufficient regarding the art of coins original: 'nummorum arte'; a common metaphor for the transmutation of metals into gold or silver. for those who have reason, because one thing performs what many things also accomplish. Furthermore, you do not need many things but only one thing, and that one thing, in every step of your works, is turned into another nature. The Assembly said: Master, if you would speak as the Sages have spoken, and