Then make the Mercury four to the Sun, Two to the Moon as it should be.
NOw pluck up your attention, for my speech will be difficult. When your Body to your Mercury in outward pro∣portion is one to two, then must your Mercury in its inward proportion be just opposite, that is, four to two, else you shall never make Harmony that is good Musick; for do not think it is all one, with one and the same proportioned Mercury, to put either one of the Body to two of the Water, or one to three, or two to three, or three to four; no verily, till you come to this, to measure your Lamp clibanically to your Furnace, you are yet in the dark for Practice, though you may be true in Theory. I almost tremble to speak of this point, for it is the very wilde of all those who study this Art, and cannot come to the end of