[Divers traitez de la philosophie naturelle]

your wealth, and do not receive sadness into your hearts, and of this I assure you, and take this from me as from a master. For if you do not turn this red stone into white, and then again do not make it red, and thus do not make a tincture of the tincture, you do nothing. Cook then this stone, and break it, and deprive it of blackness by cooking and washing it until it is white, and then set it upright as it should be.

3. Arisleus says, The key to this work is the art of whitening. Take then the body that I have shown you, and that our Master has told you of, and make from it thin tablets, and put them in the sea water, the