Atalanta Fugiens

The Wind Has Carried It In His Belly

Its Nurse Is The Earth

Go To The Woman Washing Sheets, And Do Thou Likewise

Join Brother To Sister And Hand Them The Cup Of Love

Put A Toad To The Breasts Of A Woman, And Nurse It; The Woman May Die, But The Toad Grows Big From The Milk

Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth

There Is A Chick, Flying Up From Its Nest, That Falls Back Into The Nest Again

Take The Egg And Pierce It With A Fiery Sword

Lock The Tree With The Old Man In A Bedewed House, And By Eating Of Its Fruit He Will Become Young

Give Fire To Fire, Mercury To Mercury, And It Is Enough For You

Make Latona White And Tear Up The Books

The Stone That Saturn Vomited Up, After Having Devoured It In Place Of His Son, Jupiter, Has Been Placed On Helicon As A Monument For Mortals

The Ore Of The Philosophers Is Dropsical, And Needs To Be Washed Seven Times In The River, Just As The Leper Naaman In The Jordan

This Is The Dragon Devouring Its Own Tail

Let The Work Of The Potter, Consisting Of The Dry And The Wet, Teach You

This Lion Has No Feathers; The Other Has

A Fourfold Wheel Rules This Fiery Work

Fire Loves To Make Fire, But Not To Make Gold, As Gold Does

If You Kill One Of The Four, All Will Be Dead Immediately

Nature Teaches Nature To Overcome The Fire

Make A Circle Around Man And Woman, Then A Square, Now A Triangle; Make A Circle, And You Will Have The Philosophers’ Stone

When You Have The White Lead, Do The Women’s Work, That Is, Cook

Gold Rains Down, As Pallas Is Born On Rhodes, And The Sun Lies With Venus

The Wolf Devoured The King, And When Burned, It Returned Him To Life.

The Dragon Will Not Die, Unless It Be Killed By Its Brother And Sister, Who Are Sol And Luna

The Fruit Of Human Wisdom Is The Tree Of Life

He Who Tries To Enter The Philosophic Rose-Garden Without A Key Is Like A Man Wanting To Walk Without Feet.

The King Is Bathed, Sitting In A Steam-Bath, And Is Freed From Black Bile By Pharut

Like The Salamander, The Stone Lives In The Fire

The Sun Needs The Moon, As The Cock Needs The Hen

The King Swims In The Sea, Crying With A Loud Voice: ‘He Who Rescues Me Shall Have A Mighty Reward!’

As Coral Grows Under Water And Hardens In The Air, So Does The Stone

The Hermaphrodite, Like A Corpse, Lying In The Dark, Needs Fire

He Is Conceived In The Bath And Born In The Air, But When He Is Made Red He Steps Over The Waters

As Ceres Accustomed Triptolemus To Stay In The Fire, And Thetis Achilles, So The Master Does To The Stone

The Stone Is Projected Onto The Land, And Exalted In The Mountains, And Lives In The Air, And Feeds In The River, That Is, Mercury

Three Things Suffice For The Mastery: White Smoke, That Is, Water; The Green Lion, That Is The Ore Of Hermes; And Foetid Water

The Rebis, Like The Hermaphrodite, Is Born From Two Mountains, Those Of Mercury And Venus

Oedipus, Having Overcome The Sphinx And Murdered Laius His Father, Takes His Mother To Wife

From Two Waters Make One, And It Will Be The Water Of Holiness

Adonis Is Slain By A Boar, And As Venus Runs Up, She Tinctures The Roses With Her Blood

From Him Versed In Chemistry, Let Nature, Reason, Experience And Reading Be His Guide, Staff, Spectacles And Lamp

Hear The Garrulous Vulture, Who In No Wise Deceives You

Typhon Kills Osiris By Trickery, And Scatters His Members Far And Wide, But The Renowned Isis Collects Them

The Sun And Its Shadows Complete The Work

Two Eagles Meet, One From The East, The Other From The West

The Wolf Coming From The East And The Dog Coming From The West Have Bitten Each Other

The King, Sick From Drinking The Waters, Is Cured By The Physicians And Regains His Health

The Philosophic Child Acknowledges Three Fathers, Like Orion

The Dragon Kills The Woman, And She Him, And Together They Are Soaked In Blood