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Then shall thy Elements perfectly accord, and one colour shall cover thynew-married Soul and Body, and that will be like to the most pure Lilly, orsublimed Salt, sparkling like to a new-slipped Sword in the Sun beams.In this whiteness is the Multiplicative virtue exalted, and made apparent inits first degree; by this white Soul thou mayst turn either Mercury, orSaturn, or Jupiter, or Venus, or Mars, into most pure refined Silver, in ashort time, and that not Sophistically, to apparency, but in reality, inwardlyand outwardly to abide all Essays.Make each the other to hales and kiss,And like as Children play them up and down,And when their Shirts are filled with Piss,The let the Woman to wash be bown,Which oft for faintness will fall in a swonn,And die at last with her Children all,And go to Purgatory to wash their filth Original.But in thy first Operation, as is said before, first look for blackness, whichwill appear in the first Regimen by continual decoction, which blacknessshall be an Indicium to you that your two Natures do begin now to imbraceand kiss one another.For so soon as they feel the Fire, they flow together within the Vessel, andboyl by continuance of decoction visibly, and the tender Nature notenduring the heat, flyeth aloft, and being inclosed so that it cannot get out,it congeals in drops in the head of the vessel, and about the sides, and againreturns to its Body, which may well be called Childrens play, runninground as it were in a Circular motion: This play continues so long, till theWater begins to leave its thicker parts, with the thicker parts of the Body,which in the bottom of the Vessel is called Urina puerorum; and thethinner parts of the Water, mixed with the thinner parts of the Body, whichis dissolved in it, flies still and circulates until it have made a more fulldissolution of the Body, which here by the odour of its Sulphur dothpenetrate the Spirit and Soul, and makes them faint at last, and remain as itwere breathless in the bottom of the Glass.Then shall the Body be destroyed, and both the Water and it rot into smallAtoms, which will lie without motion, growing every day more and moreblack, until at length Cimmerian darkness cover the whole Sky.This is called the North Latitude of our Stone, and it is Winter, cold anddirty; here are the Elements brought to rest for a time, until a Generation bemade in the bottom of the Glass, when though the will and power of God, aclean thing shall be brought out of this uncleanness and black venenosity.157