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(after Calcination to water the dry pores) while the Body below rots intoAtoms.Then shall you bring back the Water upon the earth, and circulate again solong till there be a total joining, till the Spirit become the body, and theBody become a Spirit, and all be made true Fire or Tincture; of whichConjunction this true Separation is the cause, and without it it cannot bemade.Then Oyl and Water with Water shall distill,And through her help receive moving:Keep well these two, that thou not spillThy Work for want of due closing,And make thy Stopple of Glass meltng,The top of thy Vessel together with it,Then Philosopher lick it is up shit.In this second Circulation, which is after Conjunction, there shall be nomore the Body below and the Spirit above, but all shall be one, and theBody which is the Sulphur, shall always follow the Spirit on the Firewherever it flys. The occasional cause of all this, is our first Water whichthough vile, is therefore to be much valued, for it is very precious; throughthe virtue of which it comes to pass, that our earth yields a Water, andcauseth it to fly with the Spirit aloft, and is the Soul of our Sol, which atlength doth allure the said Spirit and Body to union, which else wouldnever be: and then the Body beyond its own nature is lifted up, movinguncessantly with the Spirit and Soul upon the Fire, for all now are madeone inseparably; and this is called the sealing the Mother in the belly of theInfant which she bore, that is, the earth below is so united to the Water thatarose from it, that in this Operation after this true Conjunction, they arenever more divided, but are together sublimes, and descend continually,moving and altering continually until perfect Complement.Now for as much as all the Mastery consists in Vapour, which are calledthe great Winds, which are in the Vessel at the forming of this our Embrio.Therefore great care must be had lest the Spirits exhale. Which they willdo, without the Glass have a strong guard; for first, they are subtle; nor thatonly, but ascend with a great impetus, by reason of our Fire, which mustcause the inferiora ebullire & moveri continuo, & inferiora ciculari,quolibet momento; and thirdly, in Putrefaction the Body and Spirits have amost subtle odour, which also must be retained.For preventing of all, thou shalt have thy Stopple as firm as any part of thyGlass, which let it be strong, as is said, and the neck long and strong, andlet the neck be melted up with a Lamp, or with Coals, and closed well115