Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou Little Knowest The

Those Qualities Of Bodies That Cannot Be Intended And Remitted [i.e., Qualities That Cannot Be Increased And Diminished] And That Belong To All Bodies On Which Experiments Can Be Made Should Be Taken As Qualities Of All Bodies Universally.

Thus You May Multiply Each Stone 4 Times & No More For They Will Then Become Oyles Shining In Ye Dark And Fit For Magicall Uses. You May Ferment Them With Gold And Silver, By Keeping The Stone And Metal In Fusion Together For A Day, & Then Project Upon Metalls. This Is The Multiplication Of Ye Stone In Vertue. To Multiply It In Weight Ad To It Of Ye First Gold Whether Philosophic Or Vulgar.

All The Characters Of The Passion Agree To The Year 34; And That Is The Only Year To Which They All Agree.

The Changing Of Bodies Into Light, And Light Into Bodies, Is Very Conformable To The Course Of Nature, Which Seems Delighted With Transmutations.

You Sometimes Speak Of Gravity As Essential And Inherent To Matter. Pray Do Not Ascribe That Notion To Me, For The Cause Of Gravity Is What I Do Not Pretend To Know, And Therefore Would Take More Time To Consider Of It.