Separatio · Nigredo
The dissolved matter is sorted into its components, the heavy from the light. The Emerald Tablet says: separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross.
Separatio · Nigredo
Discernment after the flood: true from false, yours from inherited, essential from accidental. Not everything that was dissolved deserves to be put back together.
A question to carry
What in you was never yours?
The Twelve Operations
Each operation of the Great Work, with its laboratory meaning, its reading in a life and a question.