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This done, go backwards turning thy wheel again,And into Water turn thy Fire anon,Air into Earth, else labourest thou in vain.Now know, that all our three Circulations are so called not without greatreason, for so indeed they go on as a Wheel; put a Nail in a Wheel, and turnit, and you shall see the nail will with one half of your turning ascend, andthe other half descend: And then that Circulation is compleat, and you thenmust go on to another Circulation.These our Circulations are Solution and Congelation, Volatilization andFixation, opening and shutting; when once thou hast brought thy Body tothe height of Subtiliation, that the Spirit by decoction can being to it, thenthe Spirit hath done its work, and ceaseth then to be active; then begins thedissolved Body to work after its own kind, and then the Spirit is passive,and the Body active; thus passive Natures are made active, and activepassive, which is the key of out Mastery. First then, advance the Spiritabove the Body, till the Fire be discovered, which is in a yellow colour;then advance the Body over the Spirit, till the Earth again appear, which isin a colour blacker than Pitch; which first will begin with blewness, and hiswill decline daily more and more unto blackness. This yellow colourremember that it comes with a moisture of the Compound, otherwise whatyou do is all in vain: turn it then into Water, that is, let this yellownessappear in humido, till by opposition from the terrene qualities there beengendred a blewness, then continue this decoction till all be intirely black,for in gross moisture heat working, engenders blackness, with such likegross colours.For so to temperament is brought our Stone,And Natures contractions four, are made one;After they have three times been circulate, Also thy Base perfectlyconsummate.Thy Air must be thickned with the Body, which is terrene and gross, beingnot yet putrified, and by this means the Fire and the Air, and the Earth andWater will accord; for Air will agree with Water, and Earth with Fire: TheAir being then tempered with Earth, doth by this reconcile the Water andthe Fire. Thus our first decoction confounds the Elements, and thus ourStone which was of severed qualities, is brought to a temperateness. Thusby a natural Circulation, the Quadrangle is made a Circle, and four qualitiesmake a fifth, which is a Neuter from the four, and yet partakes of all, Thisfirst Conjunction natural, which is made in the Glass without laying on ofhands, which we call Triptative, is the ground of the last Tetraptive90