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THey who shall do otherwise, as they discover themselves to be too impa∣tient, so they certainly will destroy their
Operations. For were it no other da∣mage then this, that they cool their Seed, it is an irreparable errour; but over and besides, the crude Air, will they, nill they, will get in, and being as it is a great ene∣my to Generation, it destroys the germi∣native and living virtue.
Then instead of getting profit, they reap certain loss; and instead of attain∣ing truth, they get a delusion: for no man that understands himself would do it, but he that would open a womans Womb that is conceived, to make her bring forth sooner, or crack an Egg he would set under a Hen, to make it hatch more speedily.
Therefore as I advised before, so I do now, and shall make it the ••piphonema of this discourse; mix thy Seeds, and elaborate them with what pains thou canst, then shut them in a house of Glass, that is to say, an ounce in a Glass that would ••old about 16 ounces, or 20, or two ounces in a Glass that would hold two ounces or thereabouts of Water di∣stilled; set thy Glass in thy Nest, about a 4th part of it in Sand, which must be sisted
from Stones. Let the Neck be fastned either with a Wyre, or set into a hole which may be in the Cover of thy Nest, the Neck about 6 inches long, or longer a little. Let thy Athanor be so that thou mayst give in it what heat thou pleasest, and keep it about a day, or 16 or 12 hours at least, without renewing, and yet no sensible alteration in heat.
In this Furnace thou shalt give thy Matter such a Fire, as may within the first day or two cause it to boyl, like to a Pot over the Fire, or as the stormy Sea swelleth in a mighty Wind; from the sur∣face of which there will exhale a Vapour which we call the Winds, which are in the belly or womb in the forming of our Embrio, which will condense at the top, (the Glass being strong) and run down in drops, and this continually night and day without ceasing. Thus is verified the saying of the Philosopher, that our Stone retaineth life, and is perfected, that is, divided and united, and at last fixt and congealed, by continual boyl∣ing and subliming. Thus are thy Waters divided, the uppermost part carry aloft
the Soul with them, and the lowermost boyl and tear and soften the Body, and make it more fit for the returning Spirit and Soul to work on, in their continual descending.