1. O you who seek our secret
Marveling at the matter, rejecting it

2. Look to the water of life
In which wonders lie for one who reflects

3. White in appearance, radiant
It dyes what mixes with it red

4. So it is to the eye purely white
And to the novice purely informative

5. It awakens the dead whom decay has gripped
And they become like new creations

6. It burns the body grown arrogant
In the flames of fire, stubborn

7. For in it diamond is softened
And solid steel melted and made to flow

8. It extracts from iron that had hardened
And would not submit to be broken

9. And did not leave the shadow of copper
Its color thus becoming yellow

10. The barren womb it makes fertile
Bearing the greatest king