Keys of Alchemistry

1st key. Is which opens the dark prisons in which the sulphur is shut up. This is it which knows how to extract the seed out of the body and which forms the stone of the philosophers by the conjunction of the spirit with the body of sulphur with mercury.
2nd key. Dissolves the compound of the stone and begins the seperation of the elements in a philosophical manner. This seperation of the elements is not made but by raising up the subtle and pure parts above the thick and terrestrial parts.
3rd key. Comprehends of itself alone a longer train of operations than alk the rest together.
4th key. Of the art is the entrance to the second work and a reiteration in part a development of the foregoing. It is this which reduces our water into earth. There is but this only water in the world. Which by bare boiling can be converted into earth. Because the mercury of the wise carries in its centre its own sulphur. Which congulates it.
5th key. Includes the fermentation of the stone with the perfect body. To make thereof the medicine of the third order.
6th key. Teaches the multiplication of the stone. By the reavaluation of the same operation. Which consists but in opening and shutting, dissolving and coagulating, imbiding and drying. Whereby the virtues of the stone are infinitely argumentable.