Particular from the Universal

But when I was informed that this work consists in merâ morâ sheer delay/patience, in patience and long waiting, but that impatience and haste are from the father of wrath, I proceeded very gently with the bride. I waited in good hope for the right time, and thus finally caught the beautiful Diana the Moon/Silver quite naked in her bath, and also saw the snow-white swans swimming on the philosophical sea. Then I thought: Here is the flower, the true lead glance, the pearls, the white fixed sulfur, the prima materia first matter and sperma Metallorum seed of metals, the purum Metallicum pure metallic substance, the gold seed, the Sal mundi salt of the world, and Spiritus universi spirit of the universe, the true, otherwise invisible Mer