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SO that thou shalt never see them seve∣red one from the other, but shalt dis∣cern them by the effect, and by the eye of thy mind more then of thy body There∣fore saith the Philosopher, Azoth and Fire are sufficient for thee in the middle and end, but not in the beginning, for then they are not our Mercury, that is our universally united Mercury. But in
the first days of the Stone, there appear four Elements, of which three are in the Mercury sublimed, and one in Sol, which is counted all for Earth till it be dissol∣ved, and then it fermenteth the Mercury, and makes the three qualities of it, which it hath, drawn from three substances to unite into one Mercury which hath all in it one essential property, and that is So∣lary, which first will shew the Moon in the full, and is the true one matter of all our Secrets, our one Image out of which springs white and red, not bare Sol and Luna, as will spring out of our Mercury, which we prepare with our hands, but the white and red Elixirs, which shew that this Mercury which Nature hath made in the Glass, without our help, is far beyond that Mercury which we pre∣pared with a laborious toil.