lion,
prison, grave, brothel, vial, cucurbit." It is just like the belly and the
womb, containing in itself the true, natural warmth (to give life to our
young king). The warmth that is used must first be gentle, "like that
after the winter"; it must be stronger like the sun in spring, in summer
[cf. the seasons in our parable]. (Flamel, pp. 50 ff.)

Daustenius (Ros., VII): "... And this thing can be a symbol of a woman's
belly, which, when she has conceived, will immediately close the womb."

Id. (Ros., VII): "Therefore, when you have put them (the white woman and
the red man) in their vessel, then close it as fast as possible...." [Seal
of Hermes.]

Id. (Ros., VIII): "Therefore that you arrange the substances right and
fine, and regulate your work well, and marry consanguineous matter with
masses acting consanguineously...." [Incest.]

Id. (Ros., VII): "So now this is our solution, that you marry the Gabricum
with the Beja, which when he lies with the Beja, dies immediately and is
changed into her nature. Although the Beja is a woman, still she improves
the Gabricum because he is come out of her." [Death of the bridegroom son.
It should be remembered in this connection that all metals or all
substances generally--consequently also the [Symbol: Sun]--come forth from
the "mother," the primal substance [Symbol: Mercury].]

In a "Vision" of Daustenius, the king is to return into his mother's womb
in order to be procreated afresh. The king "goes into his bedroom and
unexpectedly is fired with a great desire for coition, and goes to sleep
at once, and has lain with a surpassingly beautiful maiden, who was a
daughter of his mother" [weakened form of mother incest]. Later the vision
says, "The woman, however, incloses her man, as a mother, quite carefully
in the innermost part of her body."

The bodies inclosed in the vessel fall to pieces and are partly volatile.
The vapors [soul] return, however, into the bodies. There conception takes
place.

Daustenius [Ros. IX.]: "... From that are airy spirits come, that with
each other rise into the air, and there have conceived life, that is blown
into them by their dampness, as the human being has life from air, by
which it increases.... For life of all natural things depends upon the
blowing in of air."

The bestowing of life by a blowing in of air plays a great part in myths.
Also there occurs quite frequently special impregnations by air and wind.
It is a primitive impre