It followeth afterward: _The father of all the Telesme of the whole worlde is here_: that is in the worke of the stone is a finall way. And note, that the Philosopher calleth the worke, the Father of all the Telesme: that is, of all secret, or of all treasure _of the whole worlde_: that is, of euery stone found in the world, _is here_. As if he should say, Behold I shew it thee. Afterward the Philosopher saith, _Wilt thou that I teach thee to knowe when the vertue of the Stone is perfect and compleate_? to wit, when it is conuerted into his earth: and therefore he saith, _His power is entire_, that is, compleate and perfect, _if it be turned into earth_: that is, if the Soule of the stone (whereof wee haue made mention before: which Soule may be called the winde or ayre, wherein consisteth the whole life and vertue of the stone) be conuerted into the earth, to wit of the stone, and fixed: so that the whole substance of the Stone be so with his nurse, to wit earth, that the whole Stone be turned into ferment. As in making of bread, a little leauen nourisheth and fermenteth a great deale of Paste: so will the Philosopher that our stone bee so fermented, that it may bee ferment to the multiplication of the stone. CHAP. VII. _Of the mundification and cleansing of the stone._ Consequently, hee teacheth how the Stone ought to bee multiplied: but first he setteth downe the mundification of the stone, and the separation of the parts: saying, _Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the thinne from the thicke, and that gently with great discretion_. Gently, that is by little, and little, not violently, but wisely, to witte, in Philosophicall doung. _Thou shalt separate_, that is, dissolue: for dissolution is the separation of partes. _The earth from the fire, the thinne from the thicke_: that is, the lees and dregges, from the fire, the ayre, the water, and the whole substaunce of the Stone, so that the Stone may remaine most pure without all filth. CHAP. VIII. _That the vnfixed part of the Stone should exceed the fixed, and lift it vp._