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This when thou shalt see, rejoice, for our King is now coming from theEast triumphing, he hath conquered death, and now is made immortal;strengthen then your Fire a little, prudently and with discretion continue ittill such time as your Stone become white, and very clear and bright,sparkling like to a Sword new slipped, and by driness be reduced into aPowder impalpable.Now art thou come to the end of the white, and thou hast a Stone perfect;though this be but of small virtue, yet thou mayst now take it out, and use iteither by Fermentation, or Cibation, or Imbibition, or Multiplication, andmake it fit for projection: so that if thou hast but an ounce, thou mayst soonhave a thousand.For now both moist and dry is so contemperate,That of the Water Earth hath received impression,Which never after that asunder may be separate,And right so Water to the Earth hath given ingression,That both together to dwell have made profession;And Water of the Earth hath purchased a retentive,They four made one never more to strive.Now thou hast an intimate union between the moist and the dry, that one ispassed into another, and of two there is a third made, which is a Neuterfrom both, and yet partakes of both; and these two natures that did seem soopposite, are now conspired together to make one substance incorruptible.For the Water which is a Spirit, hath given such an impression to the earth,that it which was corporal and dry, and uncapable of communicatingTincture, is by it become penetrative, so that it can in the very twinkling ofan eye pass to the very Centre, upon an imperfect Metal on which it isproject, as I have oft with unspeakable content observed.For it is not in our union of this Sulphur to its Mercury, as it is with theunion of Water to Water, though we make such comparisons; for thoughwe call our Sulphur Earth, and our Mercury Water, yet our Mercury willnot in the Examen of the Fire flow away as Water will exhale from Loam,how exquisitely soever it be contempered with it.So then our Body which by our Art is renewed, is advanced into the orderof Spirits, or Bodies glorified, which thought they have Bodies, yet they arenot subject to those Laws of gross corporeity, which is in Bodies notregenerate: therefore our Stone is a System of Wonders, ponderous, fixt,and exquisitely compact, and yet as penetrative as hot Oyl is into soakingPaper.142