Wherefore you must now understand and observe, that even as I have declared unto you concerning the _Saphire_, for your apprehension, even so on the other side, you must learn to what purpose my Speech is intended, for your Instruction concerning Metals.
For this blew Spirit is the Sulphur and the Soul, whence the Silver receiveth its Life, both in and above the Earth, by Art, and the white Tincture of the Silver upon white stands in the Magnetick form of an everlasting thing, or Creature, wherein is likewise found the first _Ens_ of Gold.
O ye high qualified Orators! where is your voice in this case to explain this Mystery? And you conceited Naturalists, where is your Writings and Advice of Reason? And you Physicians, Whither is your Opinion flown, to fetch somewhat afar off over the Seas for to cure the _Dropsie_, and all _Lunary_ Distempers? You will say, that this my speech is too dark for you; is it so? then kindle the terrestrial Light, seek, and be not ashamed to make acquaintance with _Vulcan_; and let nothing be irksome unto you, so will you find by the assistance of the Eternal God, that the Spirit of _Silver_ contains in it to cure and expel the _Dropsie_ quite alone, as the Spirit of _Gold_, and as that of _Mercury_ can expel the _Consumption_ radically, or in the root, even so that the Center of those Diseases cannot be found any more. But that _Luna_ in the veins of the Earth is not furnished with such a hot substance or quality in its degree, but is subjected to a Waterish Nature; this fault lies upon that great Light of Heaven, which by reason of its Waterish influence, hath implanted such qualities in the other Creatures, and Planets of the Earth, than it hath in _Silver_. And albeit that _Silver_ contains a fix'd _Mercury_, which is generated in it, yet it wants a hot, fix'd _Sulphur_, truly to dry up and consume its Phlegme, whereby it hath not obtained a compact Body, unless it be done afterwards by the art of the Little World. And seeing that its Body is not compact by reason of the abounding watery substance, its Pores therefore are not rightly defended, nor closed to undergo the weight and endure a Battel with the Enemies; all which Virtues are to be found in _Gold_, if it shall overcome all Enemies, and endure all trials without defect.