Dritter Theil. Third Part

phur superfluuum superfluous sulfur, with a sharp glowing iron, so that the tree may afterwards bring forth many good fruits without hindrance, which then also does not fail. Paracelsus gives us such work to understand quite clearly in his Coelo Philosophorum Heaven of the Philosophers, by the sixth rule of the Mercurii Mercury, where he sets the glowing knife thus:

Pingues adole Verbenas. Burn the fat offshoots.

But it is read over lightly and considered by few what he means by it, while he writes so clearly and openly to those who have had something in hand; to the blind, however, it remains hidden.

This a Chymicus should know and understand, how the metallic tree is constituted, and what its root, trunk, blossoms, and fruits are. ♄ Saturn is its root, ♃ Jupiter the trunk, ♂ Mars the bark over the trunk, ☿ Mercury the nourishing sap between the trunk and bark, ♀ Venus the green branches and leaves, ☽ Luna the lovely blossom, and ☉ Sol the mature apple or fruits, which have the tree's seeds in them.

When the apple has now reached full ripeness on its tree and is not picked by the gardener, it falls off of its own accord; afterwards, when the weather is colder, the leaves also fall from the tree and cover the apple, which apple rots under the leaves, but the kernels or seeds of the apple begin to sprout towards the spring, and are fed and maintained by the rotted apple under the foliage with