On İki Anahtar: Birinci Anahtar

Let the King's crown be of pure gold, and let a chaste bride be joined to him in marriage. Therefore, if you wish to work by means of our bodies, take the grey, most ravenous wolf, who by reason of his name is subject to warlike Mars, but by the origin of his birth is the son of old Saturn, who is found in the valleys and mountains of the world, seized by the sharpest hunger. Throw to him the body of the King, so that he may have nourishment therefrom; and when he has devoured the King, make a great fire, into which throw the wolf to burn him entirely; then the King will again be set free. When this has been done three times, then the Lion has overcome the wolf, and will find nothing more in it to consume. And thus our body is suitable for the beginning of our work. And know that this alone is the right and legitimate way to purge our bodies. For the Lion purifies himself with the blood of the wolf, and the tincture of his blood wonderfully rejoices in the tincture of the Lion; indeed, the blood of both of these is joined together by a certain closeness of affinity.