-The Philosopher’s mineral.

-The sulphur and the philosopher’s mercury (not the vulgar ones) are placed in a glass vessel. These formless matters, not naturally amalgamable, are inert and cold, although they contain inside their breast an internal fire. In this state no proportion is made by the man's hand.

-The salt or igneous Spirit, or element transformable at will of this trinity is placed then in contact with the sulphurous earth and the mercurial water. In contact with this fire spirit, the other two are awaken. A violent fight is develops among the three that will originate a fourth one, more violent than the other ones, creating like this an unbalance in the forces of the mass. This unbalance translates itself by a whirlwind movement. Under the effect of this fourth energy an attraction is produced, amalgamating in a natural proportion, the salt, the sulphur and the philosophers' mercury.

-From this rotating movement will be born a fifth fire that will have for effect the electrification of the atomic corpuscle of the constituents.

-Attractive electricity will be born and of they're the name of Mineral Electro.

-In this state the granulation is effective. The Artist will choose therefore in nature and in the mineral kingdom an earth likely proportionate, by which of it he will do its «Prima Materia».

-Then, by a whole natural ingenious industry, the Artist will separate what nature united. He will separate the pure from the impure, the subtle from the thick; he will pick up carefully the «Light» or essence of this mineral, he will make saline, red-gold shining and brilliant crystals. Having acted like this, the Sage will separate the light of the darkness.

-The worlds being born (read granulation) as we saw, the fifth fire (generated by the permanent movement) provokes the evaporation of a certain amount of «divine water» or «fire of the spirit of the salt». A vapour rises at the top of the vase, staying at a distance kept there by the heat of the fourth fire, always maintained by the combat of the other three. The free space that separates the vapour of the saline humidity of the granules is comparable in effect to that one that is calls firmament.

-However, as the matter cools down, the vapours condense and fall in big drops onto the earth. Shortly, under these waters that penetrate to the centre of the miniature worlds, the earth is submerged, dissolved; the solid corpuscles become mud while the fire water (having absorbed the quintessence of the terrestrial trinity) swims on top in the form of a red oil with a gold fringe. The Artist will see that there are two kinds of liquids.

-At this moment, no more vapour appears in the vase. Only, the same emptiness that existed persists. This emptiness can be called sky in contrast with the earth and the water that are in the bottom of the vase.

-First, notice that it is the «calx» under the sky, and not the «waters». The plural is put to call the attention to the two coloration of the liquid mass.

-The Artist will gather in one place, in one well-closed recipient, the precious liquid.

-Later, he has cut the head of the crow; he will see its adamic earth appear under form of very black and foetid sand. Then, always causing the fifth fire to act, he will begin by drying the earth...

-Keeping preciously it’s liquid quintessence.

-The green colour begins to appear. The whole earth is covered of green colour and of bubbles containing mineral seeds. At this time, some Sages compare their matter to one frog’s spawns.

-Always under the action of the fifth fire, the green granulation begins to clear up. The matter washed by the fire passes from the green to the white colour. The philosophers call then this matter Very Pure Moon, Very Fix.

-This colour is the indication that the operation went well, after having provoked the deluge in «Solve».

-The operation went well to begin «Coagula», which is a true labyrinth.

-Always under the action of the fifth fire, the third temperature degree is reached. The heat activated in the white colour gives the yellow colour. In this state the Sages symbolise their matter by a Five-Branch star. This is the matter approach of the Work: The Star of the Morning.

-Here, the white matter forms fisheyes-like; the Sages say that they fish the « Echéneis» fish; it is for that reason that they also call «Sea» the waters that recover the matter. Now, that a part of this white matter or fish eyes has the power to transform Ten Parts of vile metal into Moon, we are forced to admit the vitality of this matter born in the slime and in the water.

-The verification of it is done by placing one part of the matter in the white colour state on a red heated blade; if it melts without fuming, it is because the Stone in the white state is fixed; or else it is necessary to continue the fifth fire.

-The Stone in the Yellow state is going therefore to continue to fix itself under the action of the fifth fire, tempered by the progressive imbibição of the dyeing mercury. From yellow it will pass to the orange and finally to the red state. In this state, the Stone or Projection Powder or Sublimated Earth is capable of giving birth to the three kingdoms.

-Initially one of its parts can transmute ten of vile metals and this in very pure and very fine gold (Mineral Kingdom).

-Then, if this powder is dissolved in alcohol, and one lay some of this liquor on common calcined earth without fusion, one will see the birth of vegetables (mosses, fern, grassy (Vegetable Kingdom).

-Finally if one takes the same common earth prepared as above, and grinds it in a mortar before the introduction of a new amount of liqueur, will see the birth of the worm, the caterpillar, the fly and the butterfly (Animal Kingdom).

-When the Sage knows how to accomplish all of these things, God made him similar to Himself. The Man can create Universes to its stature and transmit life to all the kingdoms of nature. He is the uncontested master of the microcosms, and as such a he is made well to the image of God.

KAMALA JNANA.