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PRoceed therefore not as a Fool, but as a Wise man; make the Water of thy Compound to arise and circulate, so long and often until the Soul, that is to say, the most subtle virtue of the Body, arise with it, circulating with the Spirit in manner of a fiery form, by which both
the Spirit and Body are enforced to change their colour and complexion: for it is this Soul of the dissolved Bodies, which is the subject of Wonders; it is the life, and therefore quickens the dead; it is the Vegetative Soul, and therefore it makes the dead and sealed Bodies, which in their own Nature are barren, to fructifie exceedingly.
Therefore if this return unto the Earth from which it first took its flight, it will make it for to fructifie, and to increase in Tincture, and in the Earth it self will multiply as a grain of Wheat doth in the ground.
Be sure then that so fast as thou makest thy ascension, so fast also thy descension be; this is agreeable both to Nature, and the intent of all Philosophers, especially Trevisan in his Chymical Miracle; Au∣thors, saith he, differ especially in the docu∣ments of the Fire, but in this all agree, that the volatile ascend not higher then it may return. This is the true temperament of the Fire.