Patience and Timing
The necessity of proper timing in the alchemical work.
The alchemical work cannot be rushed. Each stage requires its proper time. Patience is one of the alchemist's greatest virtues. Attempting to hasten the work leads to failure.
Nature is not hurried, and neither should the alchemist be.
Patience reflects trust in natural processes of transformation.
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- What Hermeticism says about failure
The tradition states flatly that attempting to hasten the work leads to failure, and that each stage requires its proper time. Much of what gets called failure here is a correct process interrupted early.