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Conjunction, which is made in the turning round of the three Wheels,which doth perfect the Stone.Thus under the moisture of the Moon.Govern then thy Bath first with a moist Fire, until the Body be made noBody, but a flying Spirit; this is the time of the Womans reign, and it isattributed to the Moon: for our Gold till it be dissolved, all the workdepends only upon the active virtue of the Water, which causeth the slowappearance of our signs.And under the temperate heat of the Sun,Thy Elements shall be increate soon,And then hast thou the Mastery won.Thank God thy Work was so begun:For then hast thou one token true,Which first in blackness to thee will shew.When thou hast by thy first Waters Pontick virtue and firiness, so fardissolved thy Body as to set at liberty its internal Sulphur, then thyOperations will be speedy; for the Sulphur of the Water, together with thenatural Sulphur of thy Gold, by mixture will make an unnatural Fire, whichwill then burn like to the Fire of Hell, first making a total end of thatdissolution which was but in part made by the Water, and after that dryingup and congealing its own moisture, and the moisture of the Water, unitingthe Sulphur of the Sun and the Sulphur of the Water, and the Mercury ofthe Sun and the Mercury of the Water, and the united Sulphur prevailingover the united Humidity, rotting it into powder as small as Atoms, black ofthe blackest black, thou shalt then see a total mixture of Seeds, and death ofthy Compound. This rotting will begin about the 42, 46 or 50th day; andthe signs of it are, the Fumes will not ascend, but the Matter will boil at thebottom of the Glass, like to melted Pitch, boiling and bubbling, swellingand puffing in a black colour, every day blacker and blacker, shewingchangable rotting colours in its boiling. This will continue till it be so thick,that it boil not, but grow hard and swell; yet it will vary often, and appearsometimes as though dry, and sometimes a little moisture will appear, withfresh bubbling, but no Fumes. And this will last about 46 days, no Fumesrising at all, so that about the 84th or 90th day, after thy Matters begin to beboiled in a continual decoction, Putrefaction will be compleat, and thenSublimation or Circulation will begin again, which in 46 or 50 days willend in a white Dove.This first token of blackness proclaims thee a Master, after which thoucanst not well miss, unless thou wilt. This is the astonishment of Art, tomake Gold volatile, which was so fixed: be patient then, and boyl91