Mito-Hermetik Sözlük: Taş, Beden ile Ruhtan Yoğrulmuş Bir Canlı Gibidir

The juice of the lunary, the Water of Life, the Quintessence, the becoming wine, and the Vegetable Mercury are one and the same thing. The lunary juice is made of our wine, known to few; with it we make our solution and potable gold; without it, we can do nothing. Our stone is like an animal composed of body, soul, and spirit. The imperfect body is called body, the ferment, soul, and the water, spirit. The imperfect body is heavy, infirm, and dead; the water purges and purifies it by subtilizing and whitening it. The ferment gives life to the body and a better form. The body is Venus or the female; the spirit is Mercury, or the male; and the soul is composed of the Sun and the Moon. The water of the philosophers is called the Vessel of Hermes. This is what they mean when they say all the process is done in our water; namely, sublimation, distillation, calcination, solution, and fixation. It melts in this water as in an artificial vessel, which is a great secret.