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(81) The Metals have the same Substance, Condition, and Birth or Geniture, as the Vegetables upon the Earth have. For the Metals or mineral Oars, at the Time of the Kindling of the Wrath in the innate infant Wheel of the seventh Nature-Spirit, stood in the Fabrick, Work or Operation of the Love, wherein the meek Beneficence or Well doing, generates itself behind the Fire-flash; wherein the holy Heaven stands, which in this Birth or Geniture, when the Love is predominant, presents or shows forth itself in such a gracious, amiable, and blessed Clarity or Brightness, and in such beauteous Colours, like Gold, Silver, and precious Stones.

(48) Of which you have a Similitude in the precious Gold-Oar, or a Gold-Stone unseparated. First there is the Matter, that is, the Saltiter and Mercurius, which is the Mother or the whole Stone, which generates the Gold every where in the whole Stone, and in the Gold is the glorious Power or Virtue of the Stone.

(82) But Silver and Gold in the dead Palpability or Tangibility are but as a dark Stone, in Comparison of the Root of the heavenly Generating; but I set it down here only, that thou mayest know from whence it has its Original.

(19) Herein lies the Pith or Kernel; for Gold, Silver, and precious Stones, and all bright Ores of Minerals, have their Original from the Light, which shone before the Times of Wrath in the outermost Birth or Geniture of Nature, that is, in the seventh Nature-Spirit: And so now, seeing every Man is, as the whole House of this World is, therefore all his qualifying or fountain Spirits love the Kernel, or the best Thing that is in the corrupted Nature, and that they use for the Defence, Protection, and Maintenance of themselves. [a Or Livelihood.]

(7) Now to speak in a creaturely way, Sulphur, Mercurius, and Sal, are understood to be thus. S U L is the Soul or the Spirit that is risen up, or in a Similitude [it is] God: P H U R is the Prima Materia, or first Matter out of which the Spirit is generated, but especially the i Harshness: Mercurius has a fourfold Form in it, viz. Harshness, Bitterness, Fire, and Water: Sal is the Child that is generated from these four, and is harsh, eager, and a Cause of the Comprehensibility.

(93) Now when the Wrath of these four Spirits is killed, then the mineral oary Salitter stands in the Water like a tough Matter, and looks like that Spirit which is predominant in the mineral Ore; and the Light, which stands in the Fire, colours it according to its own Quality, be it Silver, or Gold. [Or tinctures.]

(65) The Sun stands in the Center or Midst of the Deep, and is the Light or Heart which proceeded out of all Stars: For when the Salitter and Mercurius, before the Creation of the World, in the Kingdom of Lucifer, became thin or dim, and had qualified one with the other, then God extracted the Heart out of all the Powers, and made the Sun thereof. And

(7) Also, the Word of God attributes to the Heavenly Beings a likeness to Brass, Electron, and many-coloured stones. Electron, as being partly like gold, partly like silver, denotes the incorruptible, as in gold, and unexpended, and undiminished, and spotless brilliancy, and the brightness, as in silver, and a luminous and heavenly radiance. But to the Brass, according to the reasons assigned, must be attributed either the likeness of fire or that of gold. We must consider that the many-coloured appearances of stones denote either as white, the luminous; or as red, the fiery; or as yellow, the golden; or as green, the youthful and the full grown; and within each likeness you will find an explanation which teaches the inner meaning of the typical images. But since, I think, according to our power, this has been sufficiently said, let us pass to the sacred explanation of the Divine representations of the Heavenly Minds through wild beasts. We must consider that the shape of a Lion signifies the leading, and robust, and indomitable, and the assimilation, as far as possible, to the unutterable Godhead, by the concealment of the intellectual footprints, and by the mystically modest covering of the path, leading to It, during Divine illumination.