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The Great Art page 86This action of Fire on the humidum does everything in the work, as in Nature, for the generation ofthe Mixts. Ovid says :Ubi temperiem sumpsere humorque calorqueConcipiunt: et ab his oriuntur concta duobus. –Metam. B.I.During this Putrefaction the philosophic male or Sulphur is confounded with the female, so theyform only one body which Philosophers call Hermaphrodite; “This is, says Flamel, (Loco cit.), theAndrogyna of the ancients, the Head of the Crow, and the converted Elements. in this manner, Irepresent to thee, that thou hast two natures reconciled, which may form an embryo in the matrix ofthe Vessel, and may give birth to a very powerful, incorruptible, invincible King . . . Our Matter inthis state is the serpent Python, which having been born from the corruption of the clay of the earth,must be put to death, and conquered by the arrows of the god Apollo, by the fair Sun, that is to say,by our Fire, equal to that of the Sun. These often repeated cleansings with the other half, are the teethof this serpent which the wise operator, the prudent Cadmus, will sow in the same Earth, whence willspring soldiers who will destroy each other, and be resolved into this same kind of earth. . . JealousPhilosophers have called this confection REBIS, and also Numus, Ethelia, Arena, Boritis, Corsufle,Cambar, Albar, Æris, Bauderic, Kukul, Thabitris, Ebisemeth, Ixir, etc., it is this which they havedesignated as the matter ‘to be whitened”. I have spoken at length of this blackness in the article onOPERATIVE PRINCIPLES. The reader may refer to this.The second demonstrative sign, or the second principal colour, is white. Hermès says, (VII Chap.):Know, Son of Science, that the Vulture cries from the mountain top, I am the White from the Black;because whiteness succeeds the blackness. Morien calls this whiteness white Smoke. Alphidiusteaches us that this matter, or this white Smoke, is the root of Art, and the Quicksilver of the Sages.Philalethes, (Narrat. Method. p. 36), assures us that Quicksilver is the true Mercury of thePhilosophers. “This Quicksilver, says he, extracted from this very subtle blackness is the tingent 66Mercury of the Philosophers, with its white and red Sulphur naturally mixed in their mine.”The Philosophers have given it, among other names, those which follow:White Copper, Lamb, Spotless Lamb, Aibathest, Whiteness, Alborach, Holy Water, Heavy Water,Talc, Argent-vive, Coagulated Mercury, Purified Mercury, Silver, Zoticon, Arsenic, Orpiment, Gold,White Gold, Azoch, Baurach, Borax, Ox, Cambar, Caspa, Ceruse, Wax, Chaia, Comerisson, WhiteBody, Corps improprement dit, December, E, Electra, Essence, White Essence, Euphrates, Eve,Fada, Favonius, Foundation of Art, Precious Stone of Givinis, Diamond, Lime, White Gum,Hermaphrodite, Hœ, Hypostase, Hyle, Enemy, Insipid Milk, Virgin’s Milk, Known Stone, MineralStone, Unique Stone, Moon, Full Moon, White Magnesia, Alum, Mother, Unique Matter of Metals,Preparatory Mean, Menstrum, Setting Mercury, Oil, Oleum vivum, Vegetable, Egg, Phlegm, White ofEgg, Point, Root, Root of Art, Unique Root, Rebis, Salt, Alkali Salt, Salt Alebrot, Salt Alembroth,Fusible Salt, Salt of Nature, Mineral Salt, Salt of the Metals, Soap of the Wise,(Sapo Sapientiœ), Seb,Secondine, Sedine, Old Age, Seth, Serinech, Fugitive Serf, Left Hand, Companion, Sister, Sperm ofthe Metals, Spirit, Tin, Sublimate, Juice, Sulphur, White Sulphur, Unctious Sulphur, Earth, TerreFeuillée, Fertile Earth, Potential Earth, Field in which the Gold must be sown, Teros, Tincar,Vapour, Evening Star, Wind, Virago, Glass, Glass of Pharaoh, Twenty-one, Vulture, Zibach, Ziva,Veil, White Veil, Narcissus, Lily, White Rose, Calcined Bone, Egg-shell, etc.Artephius says that the whiteness arises from the soul of the body floating on the water as a whitecream; and that the Spirits are then so closely united, that they cannot flee away, because they havelost their volatility.66 Tingent, viz, proper to communicate to imperfect metals the permanent colour of either gold or silver. E.B.