The Opened Philosophical Father-Heart

have been cleared away, it remains in its spermatic power and is promoted to a new generation birth/reproduction, so that in such a way the soul and spirit of our lively gold may be drawn out from their own body, in which they were kept prisoner and lay entirely powerless and strengthless for the birth of the stone of the wise the Philosophers' Stone. For there is nothing more certain than this, that nothing is found in the world that can be reborn and reawakened if it has not first died and decayed, and this is because death is the only means, way, and entrance to a new birth, which all happens through the means and way of natural warmth.

Furthermore, the dissolution of the wheat grain does not happen in sandy, stony, and dry land, but through a visible and tempered moisture of the earth, so that it swells up and draws into itself, into its root, the natural power of the central salt of the earth, as if from a special appetite desire/attraction, so that it may mingle with it, take its nourishment from it, and unite itself inseparably with it, remain with it, and hide itself in it.

When the body in this way accepts the natural moisture and draws it into itself, and the same slips into them, the body of the seed opens itself and prepares itself for a