Âdem ve Asıl Madde: Yedi Harfin Alegorisi

...for contrarye kinde soroweth thereof, and therefore of all strange thinges beware, for stones will bringe forthe no bones, neither graynes will bringe forthe no graines. Also some think that I speake with thee, yet I counsaile thee to take kepe to my wordes, for in that thou mayst finde frute by grace. And yet some think I shall write more of this water, of which this water is named: water of the sonne and the mone, that which is hid in our earthe, and within the concavite of his bowels of the earthe. Also thou shalt understonde that all thinges that is engendred must have male and female for to gete action and passion, thou mayst know it well the sonne...

None of the .7. letters which is .P. ye betokeneth our roote, and our rightfull ruler with reason, and our lyvinge radicall moysture, and our rysing redd tincture, and our reddest rose, ye which that purifieth and clenseth all thinges, and bringeth in his kinde. None of the .7. letter which is A. ye which signifieth our father Adam, ye which was the first man, and out of hym came the first woman, therefore thou mayst understonde ye there is both male and female, and so is our brasse and our beginninge and our golde of oldre, and beginning of all our worke; for he is prima materia right as ma[n]...

masculyne and femynyne ye which is gendrus. Nowe sonne by thes wordes brasse understonde all our worke that all people whether they will I suppose be to that pleasure of god, therefore sonne take yn good hede to this preapte, the wch is called our precious brasyn sanders, and also sangwis dragonis, and also sole and lune, and mo of syche and many a other names. And therefore sonne loke thou understonde well that our prima materia is neither comon golde nor comon sylver, ne comon corosybes ne suche strange matters ye newefynd nowe a days in ye worlde, and therefore loke thou take no contrarye...

...understondinge, sonne, the ferment corporall bringith greate ponderosite and greate quantite of medycine, and yet he is not of so great a might as thy medycine is, as is thy present smalle, for he ye is ferment corporall he gathereth no vertue but in greate quantite of medycine, and he ye is fermented with smalle fermentacion he gathereth vertue bothe in qualite and quantite. Nowe sonne thou shalt understonde as longe as thy medycine is fermented with smalle qualities all that while it is called medycine. And when he is fermented with corporall matter he is called Elixir, and therefore there is...