II.

French.

Le Divin Verbe donra a la substance, Compris Ciel, Terre, or occult au lait mystique, Corps, Ame, Esprit, ayant toute puissance, Tant sous ses pieds comme au Siege Celique.

English.

The Divine Word shall give to the substance, Heaven and Earth, and Gold hid in the mystical milk, Body, Soul, Spirit, having all power, As well under his feet, as in the Heavenly Seat.

ANNOT.

I desire the judicious Reader, and chiefly if he be given to the Hermetick Philosophy, to take a special notice of this Stanza, for in it is contained the secret of the _Elixir_ or Philosophers Stone, more clearly and plainly then in the _Tabula Smaragdina_ of _Hermes_, which to make appearent, we shall expound it Verse by Verse.

_The Divine Word shall give to the substance_; by the Divine word you must not understand the second person of the Trinity, but a Doctor in Divinity or a Theologian, called in Greek θεόλογος or Divine word, who shall be an _Adeptus_, a Disciple of _Hermes_, and one that shall attain to the secret of the Philosophers stone.

That man shall give to the substance, that is, to Gold; _Heaven and Earth, and gold hid in the mystical Milk_. Heaven and Earth, that is all the Celestial and Terrestrial qualities, lurking in the Gold, which is hid in the mystical milk, that is in the _Azoth_, or _Mercury_ of the Philosophers.

_Body, Soul, Spirit, having all Power_, that is, the three principles, of which the Philosophers say their stone is compounded, _viz. Body, Soul, and Spirit_.

Having _all Power_, that is, having the power to transmute all Mettals into its kind; as also having all the powers from above and below, as _Hermes_ saith, _Pater ejus est ~Sol~, Mater vero ~Luna~, & Terra nutrix ejus_.

Which is confirmed by the last Verse, _As well under his feet, as in the Heavenly Seat_.