Curious Collection on Bismuth

and become alive when body and soul are united with each other again. Therefore, you must also perform the coagula coagulation, unite the separated Elementa elements and Principia principles again, and put the spirituale spiritual or soul back together with its pure, clarified body. Therefore, when you have prepared the salt, or have drawn off the thick white ∇ Water full of power again at very gentle heat, until a beautiful white salt remained behind—that is the true green lion, which makes everything green, and is a beginning of all metals—then take ☿ Mercury and △ Sulfur [in] 2 parts or 3 parts, [and] salt 1 part, or also each in equal amounts; for one cannot state the pondus weight so precisely. Nature gives it itself, and experience teaches it. No one has yet been able to explore nature, how much ☿ [or] how much △ she has taken when she bore the ☉ Gold under the earth. Rub such 3 things well in a glass mortar, and moisten them a little with the rectified Spiritu spirit, or that which was drawn off from the Sale fixo fixed salt, so that it becomes a thick amalgama amalgam, or let the 3 Species kinds stand in very gentle heat for several days, so that they unite well with one another, and the ☿ and △ are bound by the salt, so that they cannot fly away. Afterwards, first feed and water them a little in their thirst with lacte Virginis virgin's milk, and put it into an ovum Philosophicum philosophical egg, seal it with luto Philoſophico philosophical lute/clay in the best way, [and] set the egg in a long △ fire at very gentle heat, over the steam of the ∇ Water, and guard yourself with all diligence that you do not