Page 32 - Treatise on Salt

For the regimen of your gentle fire,
And then you may hope for all sorts of prosperity,
And participate one day of this treasure,
But it is necessary that you first know,
The vaporous fire, according to the thought of the sages.
Because that fire is not elementary,
Or material, and other the like,
But it is rather a dry water drawn from mercury;
This fire is supernatural,
Essential, celestial, and pure,
In which the sun, and the moon are conjoined.
Govern the fire by the regimen of an exterior fire,
And guide your work to the end.

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