"God has spoken of the water of life / whose name shall be sanctified / thus we also desire to make something from the water."
— Compendium alchymist. novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris jllustrata, c. 1706
“Therefore study, meditate, sweat, work, cook... so will a healthful flood be opened to you which comes from the Heart of the Son of the great World, a Water which the Son of the Great World pours forth from his Body and Heart, to be for us a True and Natural Aqua Vitae....” - Heinrich Khunrath