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In which Water of kind occasionate.Of qualities been repugnance and diversity,Things into things must therefore be Rotate,Until that Trinity be brought to perfect Unity.This Water into which our Bodies are first liquefied, is not properly Water,but (modo quodam) as we may say in the Fire. During the predomination ofthe Woman, all appears in a moist posture, and so will do most part of thefirst 50 days; yet this is a gross moisture, and by consequence the more fitfor Putrefaction: in which gross Humidity all the elements are in aconfusion, not the Elements of the great World, but our Mineral Elements;thou must therefore work by a continual boiling, in which thy Compoundwill appear like unto the stormy Sea in a Tempest, raging and swelling,waves and bubbles rising one in the neck of another incessantly. TheVapour of this Bath being imprisoned, condenseth and returns everymoment, until there be an union made of all the Elements, in a terraAdamica, or Limus. Then will the Body, Soul and Spirit remain below inthe bottom of the Vessel, which is as a Tomb, in which they dye and rot,and are purified.For the Scripture recordeth when the Earth shall beTroubled, and into the deep Sea shall be castMountains and Bodies likewise at the last.Then will our Earth be moved, and the powers of our Heaven will beshaken, and the windows thereof opened, and an universal Deluge willcome upon the face of the whole Earth, which will destroy all things, andcover the highest Mountains, so that all Flesh shall dye: these Waters willbe a long time upon the face of the ground.Our Bodies be likened convenientlyTo Mountains, which after high Planets we name;Into the deeps therefore of MercuryTurn them, and keep thee out of blame,For then shalt thou see a noble game,How all will become Powder as soft as Silk;So doth our Runnit kindly curd up our milk.Thus have many of the envious allegorized of the Scripture, and veiledtheir Work under several passages and overtures which are mentionedtherein, to which they have some resemblance: that have called their MetalsSol and Luna, Mountains, either for the situation sake, they being generallyfound in Mountains, or by opposition sake, for as Mountains are highestabove ground, so they lye deepest under ground; or for that as themountains are nearer the Sun, so those do approximate nearer to coelestial103