Quire 13

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My problem with the idea that alchemy is involved is that i don't see how to relate it to what i see, and don't see how the narrative would go if it were about alchemy instead of what i see. My lack of knowledge on the subject doesn't aid me in this. So how would that narrative go, beyond the idea of mixing things together, or separating them out?

I wish I could understand the picture language on Q13 so far that I could construct a conclusive sequence of events from it. Since the picture language stands however outside of the tradition of the alchemistic way of representation one can only try to transfer the process of the production of a, let's say "Auqa vitae" as well as possible. This is without question a very laborious undertaking, but in my opinion possible.

Is the inner alchemy idea related to matching up humors with temperaments?

I have here a definition of inner alchemy:

 
The European tradition of alchemy considered inner alchemy, in accordance with the hermetic principle as within, so without, as part of the alchemical work. The alchemist identified himself with the prima materia and performed in the mind the same processes to which he subjected the substances in the external alchemy.

I imagine that the alchemist, for example, while staring into the fire for hours during a practical process, tried to put himself into the state of "spiritual purification". So there should be a kind of transfer from the practical to the spiritual. So it is not about the temperaments, but about spiritual states.