Coelum Terrae

will shee mix with them Essentially. In the outward shape, or figure, shee resembles a stone, and yet is no stone, for they call her their white Gum, and Water of their Sea, water of Life most pure, and most blessed water, and yet they minde not water of the Clouds, or Rain-water. nor water of the Wel, nor Dew: but a certain thick permanent, saltish water, a water that is drie, and wetts not the hand, a viscous, slimie water generated out of the saltish fatnesse of the Earth. They call her also their twofold Mercurie, and Azoth begotten by the Influences of two Globes, Coelestiall, and Terrestriall. Moreover, they affirme her to bee of that Nature, that no fire can destroy her, which of all other Descriptions is most true, for shee is fire her self, having in her a portion of the universall fire of Nature, and a secret Coelestiall spirit, which spirit is animated, and quickened by God himself, wherefore also they call her their most blessed stone. Lastly, they say shee is a middle nature between thick and thin, neither altogether Earthy, nor altogether Firie, but a mean aereall substance to bee found every where, and every time of the year.