[Divers traitez de la philosophie naturelle]

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breaks the body first, so that it may help it afterward. When the body is dead, water it with its milk, which is within it, and take care that the spirit does not flee; but always keep it joined with its body, and if one flees the fire, and the other endures it well, when they are both joined together, both will well endure the fire; and know that one part of the body overcomes ten of the spirit, and comforts it; and know that our sulphur a fundamental alchemical principle of combustibility burns everything, and itself makes from the beginning to the end while helping it according to nature.

6. THE VICAR says,

Know that without fire nothing is engendered. Put your composition in its vessel, and make tempered fire, all