A: The Mercury of the Philosopher scan be considered in four different aspects.First it is called Mercury of the bodies and it is precisely the hidden seed; the se-cond is the Mercury of nature, the bath or the vessel of the Philosophers, in otherwords the Humid Radical; third, Mercury of the Philosophers because it is found intheir shops and in their mines. It is the sphere of Saturn, their Diana, the real salt ofmetals. Only once acquired does the real philosophical work start. The fourth, thecommon Mercury, not the vinegar one that which is properly the true iar of thephilosophers, the true middle substance of water, the real secret and hidden fire,maned common fire because it is common to all the mines, that in it consists thesubstance of all the metals and that it is from it that they acquire their quantity andqualities.
Q: How many operations are there in our Work?
A: There is only one that can is reduced to sublimation, which is no other thing,according to GEBER, than the elevation of the dry thing by the means of the fire,while adhering to its own vessel.
We shall continue the study of this text in a further lesson.
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