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Distillation, Purification

The quicksilver flows… quicksilver flows…

Permutation, Transmogrification

Like lead into gold… lead into gold

Seven rays… burning bright

Water and Earth… grant me sight

A Human soul… eternal light

First and last… blessing and blight

Last night I had the strangest dream

A little man appeared and he sat with me

We counted the elements till the first light of day

Then he turned with a smile and melted away

Calcination, Crystallization

The ashes will fall, ashes will fall

Transmutation, Experimentation

The fifth essence calls, fifth essence calls

The serpent consumes… itself each night

But is reborn… by morning’s light

What the cosmos conceals… elixir of life

Sulfur and salt… balance and strife

Last night I had the strangest dream

A little man appeared and he sat with me

We counted the elements till the first light of day

Then he turned with a smile and melted away