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This according to the intention of all Philosophers, Guido, Turba,Arnaldus, and others, but especially noble Trevisan, whom I chiefly honor;so Flammel, Artephius, Morien, and all Philosophers testifie this much,namely, that the heat must be so adequated to the Compound, as that in itthe Body, through the Pontick virtue of the Water, may have its Sulphur letloose, and so these two Sulphurs mixing together, may bring the whole torotting or Putrefaction.By which putridness a Ferment is engendred, which as it doth volatilize allthings naturally, so it doth quicken this gross dead Body, in so much that itmounts aloft upon the Fire with the Water, and riseth a new glorious Bodymixed with the Water, so that both being become one together, the Spiritborrows from the Body permanency, and the Body from the Spiritobtaineth penetrativeness, so that both make one coelestial and terrestrialCompound, named the Regenerate Body and Stone of Paradiseincombustible. All which is occasioned by the continuance and not failingof heat, both inwardly and outwardly, by which the moisture is circulatedand depurated, without which the seminal virtue would be extinct, whichonly vegetates by heat and moisture.And if once the seminal virtue were kill’d, the remaining Compound wouldbe no better then a dead unprofitable thing, which could never be recoverd;so that if either moisture or heat within, or convenient heat without shouldfail, there is nothing to be expected, but according to the Poet,Cunct a rent, quae non ulla reparaveris Arte.Therefore at the beginning our Stone thou take,And bury each in other with their Grave,Then equal between them a marriage make,To lig together six weeks let them have.Their Seed conceived, kindly nourish and save,From the ground of their Grave not rising the while,Which secret point doth many one beguile.This then is the process of our Work; take at first our Stone, that is, the trueMaterial principles thereof, which are one in kind, and two in number: mixthese together in a due proportion, then shalt thou see as follows. First, thyFeminine nature will so embrace thy Masculine, as to extract from him hisSeed, that is, the most digested virtue, so shall the Body dye, and the watershall intomb it.The Water by Cohabitation shall contract amity and friendship with theBody, for it is nothing else but a Feminine Body of the same Stock, which159