CHAPTER VIL

Concerning the Red Colour.
After the King has assumed his perfect whiteness, the fire must be con- tinued perseveringly, until the whiteness takes a yellow tint, this being the colour which succeeds the white ; for so long as any heat acts on the white and dry matter, the longer such action lasts, the more is it tinted with yellow and saffron colour, until it arrives at redness, like the colour of a ruby. Then at last the fermentation is prepared for gold, and the oriental King is born, sitting in his seat, and powerful above all the princes of this world.