Friedrichstadt Leisure or the Chemical Tantalus

1. The Sun is the Father of its marriage, and the white Moon the mother; a third succeeds as governor, fire.
   Symbol of Maria the Jewess:
2. Smoke embraces smoke, and the white herb growing on the hillocks takes both.
   Symbol of Democritus the Greek:
3. The shadow of the dense body must be stripped away by the ignited remedy.
   Symbol of Morienus the Roman:
4. Take this, which is trodden upon in its dung-heaps: if not, about to ascend without a ladder, you will fall on your head.
   Symbol of Avicenna the Arab:
5. The eagle flying through the air and the toad walking through the earth is the Magisterium Mastery/Great Work. And this is also the symbol of Michael Maier, whom our Kilia Kiel brought forth.
   Symbol of Albertus Magnus the German:
6. All agree in one, which is two-forked.
   Symbol of Arnold of Villanova the Gaul:
7. The Stone is had from the marriage of Chabricus and Beja.
   Symbol of Thomas Aquinas the Italian:
8. From sulfur and quicksilver, as nature, so art produces metals.
   Symbol of Raymund Lull the Spaniard:
9. The body of the infant proceeds into act from male and female.
   Symbol of Roger Bacon the Englishman:
10. Make the equation of the elements and you will have it.
    Symbol of Melchior Cibinensis the Hungarian:
11. The Stone is like an infant, to be nourished with virgin's milk.
    Symbol of the Anonymous Sarmatian:
12. Saturn moistens the earth bearing the flowers of the Sun and the Moon.

These symbols were collected by the Excellent D. D. Michael Maier in the book he inscribed: Symbola aurea Mensæ duodecim Nationum Golden Symbols of the Table of the Twelve Nations, and he acted as a most happy interpreter of them, since these secrets were explored by him. If we search for their sense, there is not a single one among them that supports the defenders of Vitriol. If we also examine the Emblemata emblems of this philosopher,