That which brings a thing from ready into running. It supplies the moment, not the capacity.

Of the old craft of transformation, where changing matter and changing the self were one study. Of work that transmutes rather than rearranges.

To change a thing from one form into another while keeping what it holds. Conversion preserves content and not always fidelity.

A book of formulas — compounds written down with their compositions, so any hand can read how a thing is made. A formulary does not make the medicine; it tells truly what is in it.

Sealed against outside influence. Also of the old tradition of hidden knowledge — both mean closed to those outside.

To remove what is not wanted until only the wanted remains. Refining subtracts rather than adds.

The bringing of separate findings into one account holding them all. Synthesis adds the joining, which is real work.