_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_. III. French. _Mars_ & _Mercure_, & Largent joint ensemble, Vers le Midy extreme siccité, Au fond d’_Asie_ on dira Terre tremble, _Corinthe_, _Ephese_ lors en perplexite. English. _Mars_ and _Mercury_, and Silver joyned together, Towards the South a great drought, In the bottome of _Asia_ shall be an Earth-quake, _Corinth_ and _Ephesus_ shall then be in perplexity. ANNOT. After the Author hath in the foregoing Stanza expressed the mistery of the Philosophers stone, he seemeth to give here a receit, though Sophistical, for the relief of the Inquisitors, and as it were a _Viaticum_, for them to subsist till they can attain to the perfection, as _Basilius_, _Valentinus_ hath done since to his disciples. He saith then, that with _Mars_, that is, Iron, _Mercury_ and Silver joyned together, some thing may be done, if you beware of a _drought in the South_; that is, in the middle of the operation; and this is concerning the two first Verses. Those that shall desire to be better and further informed, may come to me, and they shall have all the satisfaction I can afford them. The two last Verses have no relation to the first two, and foretel onely a great _Earthquake_ in _Asia_, by which, those two Towns, _Corinth_ and _Ephesus_, shall be in great perplexity. IV. French. Quand seront proches le defaut des Lunaires, De l’un a lautre ne distant grandement, Froid, siccité, dangers vers les frontieres, Mesme ou l’Oracle a pris commencement. English. When the want of the Luminaries shall be near, Not being far distant one from another, Cold, drought, danger towards the Frontiers, Even where the Oracle had his beginning. ANNOT. The word _near_, sheweth that the two Eclipses, one of the Sun and the other of the Moon, shall be near one another.