After its decoction the fruit has life and blood, and its blood causes all barren trees to bring forth the same precious fruit. If you ask what is its use, I answer that before the due amount of coction has been performed, it is deadly poison, but afterwards it is the Great Medicine, and yields 29 grains of blood, each one of which produces 864 of the fruits of the Solar tree. I asked whether it could be still further improved. I asked whether that water was known by any particular name. All things owe their birth to it, and live in it.
Nothing is, properly speaking, in it, through itself mingles with all things.
It can be improved by nothing but the fruit of the Solar tree, without which it is of no use in this work. I was going to ask him to speak more plainly, when he began to cry out in such a loud voice that I awoke out of my sleep, and Saturn and the hope of getting my questions answered vanished altogether. Be contented, nevertheless, with what I have told you, and be sure that it is impossible to speak more clearly. If you do not understand what I have said, you will never grasp the writings of other philosophers. After a while, I fell into another deep sleep, in which I saw Neptune standing over me, congratulating me on our happy meeting in the Garden of the Hesperides.