On the Occult Philosophy or the Secret Miraculous Birth of the Seven Planets and Metals

-colored natural hues, which could not all be retained. The winds blew very strongly, so that all the Elementa elements had to move, at which the ▽ alchemical symbol for water serpent was mightily terrified. And as the ▽ serpent opened its throat wide, the wind struck into its throat so violently that the serpent had to choke to death. And as no life was felt in the serpent anymore, because its life departed from the Chaos primordial state, four angels descended from the region of the Highest, named Vriel, Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael. They had three servants named Zapkiel, Zadkiel, and Camael, who stand constantly before the face of the LORD, and they called to one from above out of the heights who called himself Lux mundi Light of the world, in the Latin language. They delivered the suffocated serpent to him, which he could not sufficiently warm so that it might become alive. But there was an Arab prophet who called himself Titan; he threw the dead serpent into the light of the world, and the light burned the serpent to ashes. One took the ashes for a holy relic and offered them upon the altar,