[Divers traitez de la philosophie naturelle]

these things known, put your hands to this Art: otherwise, if you ignore these things, do not approach this divine work; for everything is only misfortune, despair, and sadness. Look then at the words of the Sages, how they have completed all the work in these words, by saying. Nature rejoices in nature, nature overcomes nature, and nature contains nature. In these words is completed the work, and therefore leave so many superfluous things, and take the living water, and congeal it inside its body, and in its sulfur which does not burn, and make nature white, and thus everything will become white. And if you cook even more, it becomes red,