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four one; the Quadrangle is turned into a Circle, to the amazement ofNature.For the essence of one Element now penetrateth the essence of another, thatis, the essential properties are so thoroughly mixed, that all four now makebut one partaking of all.These are those principles which God now hath conjoined, and thereforenothing can separate: Rejoyce now, O Son of Art, for thou hast the Sun forthy Diadem, and the Moon Crescent for thy Garland.That thou mayst the more certainly, easily and speedily attain to this, andthat thy signs may the better and orderly appear, next to thy care ofpreparing true and purged Mercury, and pure Gold, first be sure of thymixture, mix them like as a Potter mixeth his Loam.Be sure you do not over-glut your Earth with water, nor cloy your Waterwith Earth, but impast them, and then grind them together as diligently as aPainter would grind his Colours; for the more exactly thou mixest them, thebetter and sooner will they work one upon another in heat.Then set thy Glass in a Furnace made for thy Work, and give a convenientFire, in which it may boyl night and day perpetually, without a minutesceasing; order the Fire so that it may in 12 or 24 hours begin to boyl, andfrom that hour not to cease boyling, subliming, ascending and descending,until such time as the moisture be dried up, and all remain below (at leastthe greatest part) in form of a discontinuous Calx.But manners there be of our Conjunction three,The first is called by Philosophers diptative,The which between Agent and Patient must be,Male and Female, Mercury and Sulphur vive,Matter and Form, thin and thick to thrive.This Lesson will help thee without doubt,And our Conjunction truly bring about.Now to help the thoroughly in this mystery of Philosophical Conjunction, Ishall particularize all our Conjunctions. We have particularly threeConjunctions, all which must be known by him who intends to compleatthis Mastery.The first is gross, which I touched before; it is the Amalgamation of Solwith our Mercury, which because the mixture is made of two things, iscalled Conjunction diptative; and the Compound is now called Rebis, thatis, two things, according to the verse, Res Rebis est Vina confecta.136