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I shall soon draw to an end concerning this subject, for I trow that thouunderstandest it fully; take heed then to my Doctrine, mix thy Water withthy Body in a due quantity, and grind them together diligently, and whenthou hast mixed them, shut them up in thy Glass carefully, and there letthem stand till compleat perfection.And after thou hast mixed them, and set them to heat, be sure thou stir themnot, much less open them, or add any thing to them, or rake ought fromthem, whatever any Author do seem to advise: For if thou do contrary tothis my Doctrine, thou dost run an extreme hazard of losing all; for as it iswith Harlots, who lying with many men, conceive rarely of any: so if thoujoyn crude Mercury after thy first Conjunction, I will not say that it isimpossible, but very unlikely that ever thou shalt attain our Mastery. Andwhat I say of putting in fresh Mercury is to be understood of the Body also,for if thou shalt add fresh of that, thou wilt destroy all; for after thou setteththem to the Fire, thou must expect Conception, that is, that the Mercury byascending and descending will extract part of the seminal virtue out of thereins of the Sun, which when she hath done, there then stands a relationbetween the Sun and that Mercury, as between Husband and Wife. Nowother Mercury, or other Sol are not as yet so related, and therefore they areas a third person, which Love abhors. Therefore mix thy Matters sojudiciously at first, that thou need not afterwards to wish for any newaddition, and close your Vessel well, and decoct it carefully.For such as evermore add crude to crude,Opening their Vessel, letting their Matters keel,The Sperm conceived they nourish not, but deludeThemselves, and spill their Work each deal;If therefore thou have list to do weelClose up thy Matrix, and nourish thy SeedWith heat continual and temperate, if thou wilt speed.They who shall do otherwise, as they discover themselves to be tooimpatient, so they certainly will destroy their Operations. For were it noother damage than this, that they cool their Seed, it is an irreparable errour;but over and besides, the crude Air, will they, ill they, will get in, and beingas it is a great enemy to Generation, it destroys the germinative and livingvirtue.Then instead of getting profit, they rap certain loss; and instead of attainingtruth, they get a delusion: for no man that understands himself would to it,but he that would open a womans Womb that is conceived, to make herbring forth sooner, or crack an Egg he would set under a Hen, to make ithatch more speedily.140