Curious Collection on Bismuth

give it strong △ fire; you will otherwise burn and destroy everything. The heat must only be as gentle as the natural heat of a human or a brooding hen. Let it stand day and night in such constant heat until it has consumed such in gentle warmth [and] it has become dry, yet not completely dry. Then open the Ovum egg, take the Materia matter out, grind it small, pour some Spiritu spirit onto it again, put everything back into the Ovum egg, lute it well, and set it back into such heat over the lamp-fire until it has become somewhat dry, and do this so long and often until the Cineratio reduction to ash is accomplished. There the Materia matter first becomes green, and remains green for some time, [then] afterwards becomes black—that is the Caput Corvi raven's head—and the putrefactio putrefaction has happened. Then set the Ovum egg in an ash [bath], and give 1 degree or several [degrees] more fire; thus the volatile substance or spirit will rise up, the earth will swell and throw up small hillocks—that is then the terra nostra falcata our sickle-earth—the ~us [spirit] however, or the volatile substance, always falls back down and moistens the Ros coelestis heavenly dew [upon] the dry earth, until all moisture is swallowed up by the earth, and now the patiens patient [has become] an agens agent, the volatile substance [has become] fixum fixed, the liquidum liquid [has become] a coagulum coagulant, the wife has mastered the man, and body and soul are united in such a way that they can never be separated from each other for all eternity. Now the image of the great King and metallic God, the ☉ Gold, can enter into them and dwell [there]. The Bernhardi fontina fountain of Bernard is opened, and