"Wetness, thickness, brightness, heaviness, mobility."
The bound condition is described in another place as follows:—
"The character of bound quicksilver is that it is—
"Continuous, fluent, luminous, pure, heavy, and that it parts asunder under friction."
Some one may urge: If the creation of mercury by Hara and Gaurí were proved, it might be allowed that the body could be made permanent; but how can that be proved? The objection is not allowable, inasmuch as that can be proved by the eighteen modes of elaboration. Thus it is stated by the authorities—
"Eighteen modes of elaboration are to be carefully discriminated,
"In the first place, as pure in every process, for perfecting the adepts."
And these modes of elaboration are enumerated thus—
"Sweating, rubbing, swooning, fixing, dropping, coercion, restraining,
"Kindling, going, falling into globules, pulverising, covering,