Tinged into earth and entire power

Meaning

Sonnet III says that if the subject is teinct into earth it retains its entire force. The supplied translation preserves the printed word as “tinged,” rather than silently replacing it with converted. The principal argument is embodiment without loss of power, but the exact poetic wording remains a consequential variant.

The next lines separate the subtle from the thick and earth from fire. That order must not be reversed to match a more familiar version of the Emerald Table. The sonnet is Nuysement’s French verse presentation, not an independently established ancient wording. Its conditional, retained power and ordered separation should be read alongside the more explicit prose explanation, without imposing a generic formula.