‘Thou shalt separate the Earth from the Fire’ (this refers to the separation of the solid and subtle states of sulphur), ‘the subtle from the gross, softly, with great ingenuity’. It rises from the Earth to the sky [solve] and again descends into the Earth [coagula] and receives the force of things superior and inferior.”
”The Earth is in a broad sense our Matter, or Mater, the Mother from whom all corporeal things take their source. ‘Terra enim est mater Elementorum; de terra procedunt et ad terram revertuntur,’
‘The Earth is the Mother of the Elements; from the Earth they proceed, to the Earth they return.’ - Hermes
‘Thou shalt separate the Earth from the Fire’ (this refers to the separation of the solid and subtle states of sulphur), ‘the subtle from the gross, softly, with great ingenuity’. It rises from the Earth to the sky [solve] and again descends into the Earth [coagula] and receives the force of things superior and inferior.”
‘Make the Earth light, and give weight to the Fire, if you would meet what is rarely met,’