Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

From the ethereal globes filled with vigorous fire, Through ceaseless revolution influence descends Upon the earth’s body, and with animating heat Penetrates her great porous womb on every side. That womb then fills with airy vaporous fire, Continually fed by a radical moisture, Which within those broad flanks takes the body of mineral water Through the digestion of its warming fire. This coagulable water, generating all things, Becomes pure earth, which holds enclosed within itself, In the closest union, the powers of the high heavens. And since within it are indeed conjoined Both earth and Heaven, I call it by the beautiful name Of earth-made Heaven, most worthy and precious.