with this, and keep silent: for I myself will keep silent, since the Supreme Judge wishes that you and I remain silent, and put this science into practice yourselves without waiting for another, whose ignorance would be harmful to you.

A decorative alchemical emblem centered between two horizontal lines of floral printer's ornaments. The emblem consists of a shield containing a circular field. Inside the circle is an upward-pointing triangle surmounted by a cross (the symbol for Antimony). Inside the triangle are various alchemical symbols including those for Mercury and Salt. Below the triangle is the symbol for Saturn. The Latin motto "OMNIA IN IPSIS" original: "All things are in them" is inscribed along the inner top edge of the shield. Above the shield, two crossed hammers or picks are flanked by small sunburst-like figures.

OF THE SPIRIT OR TINCTURE

OF SATURN.

CHAPTER II.

= 1603, Chap. IX

Saturn in the upper part of the CIEL Heaven/Sky is above, and the highest of all the other planets; but in the lower part of the world, namely in the Terre Earth, it is the lowest, the least esteemed, and the vilest of all other Metaux metals. And just as the CIEL has permitted that this superior light of SATVRNE has raised itself to the highest of the others, on the contrary, Nature has willed