The Fire-Stone of Basil, or the Golden Apple

Again, put these together;
It will please you as yours to suffer;
From the tree of gold with special skill
The fruit has grown for you upon it.

According to the advice of the learned, I have
Broken it off as a gift;
Before, it was entirely unknown to me
That this tree of such noble kind
Now bears such beautiful fruits;
So the tree must have even more power;
If you can now get this into your head,
Then this work will also succeed for you.

Since it has now been simply demonstrated by me through God's grace with reasons and sufficient arguments that a general medicine could exist against all diseases, and [since I have] given sufficient causes for the recognition of the same due subject and its preparation, as my Christian heart allows me, I will go further and as much as possible to the practice. If you, or another zealous Christian, wish to obtain this great gift of God, it must first be sought with diligent, fervent prayer, which is also bestowed upon those Christians dearly proven with many crosses and sufferings. Take in the name of God our Chaos, as much as you like, as It is found in the region of the rising sun. Note: I can name this matter for you as little as the Chaos before the creation of the world could be described by name, for it is no animal, no vegetable, nor mineral, or metallic corpus, and it is nothing of the meteors.

It is an imperfect thing that still stands in its concordance; crush or grind it small, put it in a bulb glass with a blind helmet, pour aquæ cœlicæ celestial waters over it so much that it stands four fingers' breadth high above it, and set the glass, well-luted at the top, in Balneum Mariæ water bath for putrefaction rotting; yet, so that it does not boil, keep it in such constant warmth for three weeks, then the water will become thick and black. Thereafter, set the glass in ashes, also in gentle digestion soft heat, but somewhat warmer, then everything will lovely resolve itself from day to day, and the water will become all clearer. Everything will also separate itself by the internal operation of nature, as at the top a bright, clear, translucent crystalline water, upon which our metalla philosophica philosophical metals will be seen,
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