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. Prepare a butter of O carefully from the martial stekkated

regulus with well prepared tj sublirnate. Rectify the butter.
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When pure, expose to the attractions of the atnosphere in the
lunar rays. The next d"y, distill off by a very gentle heat, all
the humidity that wiLl easily arise.
Expose again, the residuum, to the tunar and again
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distiLl as before, but with a more gentle heat. For example, if
the first distillation required the heat of three wicks in the
Iamp, the second will not require more than two.Repeat these
attractions and distillations until the humidity that is dis-'
tilled over carries no more antimony with it.

It is singular that the liguor carried over by the 2nd

distillati.on carries with it as much the liquor of the.:

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first attraction. This is easily ascertained by precipitating
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the O from equal quantities by using distilled water. To
carry over alt that the subject can yield may require g, 10,

or 11 attractions and distillations.

The products of the different distill-ations are then to be

united in a.proper globular glass or glasses & exposed to a
heat favorable for the putrefaction of the subjects a very gentle

vaporous heat is all that is needed. This part of the process,

according to the possessor, is.that which reguires the greatelt
attention.Blackness wilL come on and at Length the subject will

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exhibit a certain sign by which it may be known that the period
has arrived for the

SEPARATTOn
Or rHe er-ErqeNri
Th.ere wilL be a kind of bubbling up around the edge of the
bl-ackness Like the bubbling up of boiling pitch. A certain kind
of glutinous looking matter, which resembles the matter that
issues from the sores of a horse, wirr shew itself. This is a
sign that tfre matter is now'ready for distirration.

D T STTLLATION

Apply- a head to the vessel and distill it with a very

gentle heat. A colourless fluid will at first pass over. After
the distillation has been carried on for some tirne, a coloured
fluid will begln to come over. The receiver should then be
changed and the red oil- kept separate from the white.

iugrgeriorl
The white.oil-r ot mercury, is now.to be animated by
pouring it, in small quantities, upon the caput mortuum, f,rqn
which. it was distiLLed after th.e putrefaction. The quantity
shouLd not be above an eighth part of that of the earth.Digest
in a gentLe heat ti'lL the earth appears to be dry as it were,
and again imbibe and digest. Repeat imbibation and digestion
untiL the earth refuses to dry up anfzmere.

pnoiiounei
FURrER
Th.e matter is now to be distii-Led again in a gentl-e heat,
A coLourLess fluid vr:ill pass over carrying with it a saline
substance--- the true SaLt of Nature.

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 You have nolv obtained the true Meroung of, the Phi,Loeophere
which only requires a due digestion to make it pass through
putrefaction and become the fixed white nnedicine. When this is
obtained one or more of the glasses may be funbibed with the red
oil, hy littLe and little, without suffering them to aool, and
Lhe work (the glasses being well closed) will by digestion go on
to the fixed red medicine.

FINIS

( N T I E : t he fo l l o u i n g i s a handunitten Letter uhieh hae been i n-

s ' e r t e d i .n to th e ms. a t this point by Sig.Baeetvom .)

Another one mak U $ d O . IIe make! 4 6 V,

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1 part d, 2 or 6 , rhen i"*." .Jrno"t pure Q rtJ U ,
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melts
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with dO d and^addsasain z parts+6 , le1lE
fulmin#es and purifies with with this e A" d
O . Q
ana U^ corrosive he makeshis butter, which is xbe nfine*tfricfr
attrIEG the --n-. The heat to distill of f the --n- must not ex-
ceed a warm hand +
No te ; r n a prev i ous ms ., a n o t h e r a u t h o r n a k e s d f O o".
Cf O
m ixe s in pure verdigris ins re a d rt . - Y
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He attracts and distills til nd more --n- can be gotten. Then
he rejects his. spent Butter. This -.n- contained sublimed V or
volatiLe. These attracted votatile -A- he digests in one vessel
to putrefaction and tbe is gradually =F to the bottom. T*hen
f
p u t r e f a c ti o n i s o ve r, h e distills off his phi"losophical 5.V., then
comes phlegm, the V remaining. Mr. H. says the phlegmn goes over
first and what remains is tn.f1 simplex. The Eermetieal Triumph
says the phleg:m goes first qnFTan"n follows the U simplex. Ho!t-
ever, Ittr. H. cohobates his 0 simplex on the V Y, and distills
it over severaL 'tirnes in oraEr to extract the sophic A out
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of the V .By thesd cohobations he distills- over a uhite amd.red
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oil, (*) simpJ.ex and duplex. He fixes the I simplex upon the
ctariFied V , and digests to the white e1lxir, then imbibes this
witfr S duplex and digests to the red elixir. He did not speak of,
tne Jlcirr"tion of the ernpty f Y after extraction of r"a
"opfric $T
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N ?TE: This ms . follous the other tuo uor ke. f t is sli.ghtty e on-
de n se d in a f eu plaeeg but not so that ang m eaning uould be aT ter ed.

NB, AVoIDALL FUMEs As IT Is polsoNous,

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, 1 . P r e pa r e & O d , rn rell pur ified.
2. Pound regulus under water to a powder.Dry c'arefully.
3. By E^. ;o rro si ve (se enet fnre of the philosopherg) , convert
t h i s .a n ti mo n y (th e i r gr een Li.onl into Butter of (the
Eaglets Gluten). 6
4. Rectify butter again and again, til it leaves no feces or
only a little white calx in the retort.
5. Expose butter in fLat dishes to the air in serene nights,
i n Ma rch , A p ri l - o r May ( note: see t' Mutus LLber "J. Distil.l.
off--n- , and repeat, til no more will be attracted. By this
' means almost all of the butter may be carried over.
6. Rectify fluid severaL tirnes, by gentl-e heat, til it leaves
no feces in the retort. Each successive distillation takes
less heat, till the heat of a hand will be almost sufficient.
7. Put on a blind head, set in heat for putrefaction. The heat
being that a little more than the temperature of'bIood.
( N ) I E: a t th i s p o i n t a footnote has been insentbd, in Baes tr om s
h a n d b u t i n a d i ffe re n t eolor ink, per haps indieating i.ns er ti .on
a t a L a te r d a te . ft sa As.' The m atter thus pr epar ed and e x -
p o s e d to h e a t w i l l n e ver under go a change, hence that whlc h
f o l l o w s i s n o n se n se )
8. llaintain uniform heat several weeks til matter agpears thick-
ish and black pitchlike scum appears on the surfice.
9. Watch carefully til the matter shows a disposition to ascend
the side of the glass and look for this sigrr. The matter will
open itself in one or more places like an ugly sore. Now it is
ready for separation of the Elements.
10. Remove the blind head, and without disturbing the matter or
al.lowing the heat to go out, attach aLembic & receiver- Raise
heat slowly. til vapors begin to pass into receiver. Maintain
same.heat til no more vapors will pass without a small increase
of temperaturer or til the dropsr Ers they fall from the helm of
alembic, appear whitish instead of f.impid. This is a sign that
the phlegn has been separated.
11. Change the receiver and maintain heat just sufficient to bring
over Lhe uhite liquid. At length the drops will begin to assume
a reddish hue.
L2. Change the receiver preserving the white carefully. Attend
carefully to the heat and t.}:.ered uater or oil will come over.
This is lfre I for imbibation for ttre red medicine after the
white has been obtained.
13. Rectify the white oil to free it of any feces. Now imbibe the
matter left in the glass with this white oil. Imbibe it gently
maintaining a regular and rnoderate heat; in between each im-
bibation allow a few days that the matter may drink up the
last. added oil before more is added. The matter should never
be drowned, only moistened.
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L4. lilhen it can drink no nore (and appears glossy like soft wax)
apply an aLembic and distill off the spirit.
1'5. When the spirit has been all separated, apply a blind head
and increase the fire gradually, and a salt wilL sublime it,-
self and adhere to the side of the body- tlateh this proeesg
earefully that the fire may be put out as soon as the saLt
hds sublimed itself, otherwise there is danger of it running
down and vitrifying with the matter, in which case the whole
labor is lost and one must start over €t'neril.
, Stop the fire as soon as you percieve no more fumes are a-
rising from the matter to increase the quantity of sublimate.
In fact, it is better to risk leaving sdne of the salt in
the matter than to go too far, and lose it all. ff you think
there may be more salt in the matter, you may separate it by
another sublimation.
15. When all is cold, separate the salt carefully from the glass
sweeping it out with a feather. It is very precious, therefore
let none be lost.
L7. On this salt pour a portion of the distilled spirit (see *15)
sufficient to dissolve it', and then by alembic-or retort, in
gentle heat, distill what will pass over- The spi.rit will
carry with it a portion of the salt. On what remainsr pooti
more spirit to dissolve it, and distill again; this do til
the spirit has been made to carry over the whole of the salt.

You have in your possession when this is accomplished, the

true sophic mercury, the fountain of Count Trevisan, in which
the King bathed himself

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The work is accomplished with one thing on1y, and, this

is to be taken literally. Read the second gnrt of the l{aten
Stone of the lli.se, the Nouum Lumen of Sendivogious, the
Olympus Ternae of Theophrastus, and AIi PuI"i. These authors

say to forsake all animal, vegetable and mineral subjects.

Take only our V , "Dew", gathered in )f .
Sendivogious in his treatise on A says: "Ehere is in
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the air a secret food of tife, which is called. Dew at night

time, but rarified V or A in day time; whose invisible

when coagulated is worth more than the whole earth".

Our body is a heavenly e , wherewith we unlock the met-

aLlic body O or D tn op.r, A in a ! , and durins this
resolution, th e e l i xi r i s m ade. i,e. after the astr al e h as
been obtained and extracted out from the slirny fat lunar p ,
it is the universal key to unlock the fixt bodies of O ana ) .
Our matter is a virgin on which the sun ne\rer danted its
V
rays, although sun is its father and the moon its mother.*

This glorious matter may be collected in valLeysr orl hills,

even iri cavesr or in your own house. It is called Dear of Eeaoen,
the O of nature, fatness of ea.rth. This is an astral spirit
which is in the aig and which is attracted to all vegetable,

animal and mineral species. But in the air, it is sti1l uni-

versal and not determinedi that is why we do not gather dew that
has touched grass or trees, for the spirit is already determined,
a n d t h us, sp o i l t

* and the wind carries it in its beIly.

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 ' The solar and lunar raysr or heavenly Dew, must be cor-
rected at a proper time (Y |, in a cLean vesser; rain, dust
and stench of smoke or other effluvia spoils it. There are many
magnets, yet the success depends on the prace, gallery, weather
and wind, as well as on the magnet.
During a heavy thunderstorm, heavy gaLes of wind and heavy
rains during spring season, this $rhfch the sun has extracted
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from the earth and from the ocean, is copiousry and abundantly
drove about in the atmosphere, and is beat downward to the earth
and is attracted by vegetabres, and by man abundantry, with
rightly Prepared magnets as receptacles. Thunder-rreather, when
the wind blows from the south, southeast, southwest i.s very good.
Extreme cold or great heat gives nothing.
The place must be dry, clean and free, not rnarshy nor swampy.
Your gallery must stand, south and north. Vessels must be elevated
6 feet above the ground. An air passing through the garlery is
very useful (Ed. Note.' It seems that the author used s.ome sort
of dew gathering equipment housed in what he car.r-ed a 'gal-rery".
This could be a shed or lean-to type structure)
There must be harmony between place and reeeptacle, to collect
this -rr- in sufficient quantity.

+ PR()CESS
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collect 8-15 ounces of our universal , put it into a
P
g la ss- g lobe, well clos€d, a n d let it putrify; which will take
about 4A days, When the matter is well putrefied and guite black,
divid e it into ounces.

Take 1 or 2 ounces and dry it into an V , out of this V

or O e xtra ct'a p u re e I and imbibe it with as much -.6r-
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of- xV as you took firstr or something a little less, and 1et i t
dry into the e , gently and natural1y.
When dried, give the infant more mi1k, i.e. that niLk wher€-
of it was made, half as much as you took at first, and in this
manner you employ 2/3 parts of your -tr-- of q by imbibing and

drying up. The last I/3 part, divide into 7 parts; imbibe
your e seven times therewith, drying up each time.
After the seventh and rast imbibation, try your matter on a
red hot D or plate and see if it. ftowsr and enters with-
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out fuming. ff it smokesr you continue inbibations until it is
perfectly fixt.

Then, take one part of your universaLn- , and 2 or 3 parts

of fine O or fine D and pur it in a V , the tid being wetl
luted on, and keep in fusion 3 or 4 days in the A , and the
added O will become brittre and glossy, and become the tinging
medicine. Experiment will show the strength of projection.
Time and patience are needed to prepare trr" Q of wisdom
in a naturaL manner, that its tinging power rnay not be destroyed
by too much heat. The matter must be dried up in a natural way,
not sophisticated as using furnaces, horse dungr or even the heat
of a lamp. Dry it in the heat of a hen upon her eggs.

The matter has a power in itself to become perfect; the

philosophers say that the coction of their stone must be d.one in
the sunts heat. (for this reason, Bacstrom believes the salt is
dried in the rays of the sun). You will obtain an V or which
e
must be separated pure from its feces. This pure e is then
funbibed. The vessel must be tight and strong and have no pores.
Give enough troom in the vessel- that the humidity have A enough
to throw off hetrogeneous superfluitiesr or the work will stand,

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still and spoil, not condense or dry up into e i
' After putrefaction, regeneration takes place by its own in*

war d ra

Our V is not V of the clouds, nor weII, nor fountainp i

but it is thick, fixt and saline, nay a dry and- FIne,aFI water,

which does not wet the hands, and is a dirty water whieh has its

origins from the saLt and fat of the earth. CBacstrom supposes
that it is collected pen deliquiun by sea O (D used as a
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magnet)

Our matter is that V which ftoats above .our heads in the A .

Theophrastus says: "You must take th€ moon from the firmament and

reduce it to water, and then to earth and you will find the true

matter of our stone".

The Root of the philosophical matter is formed in the earth,

and it is found \/ ana A and this is the true.matter, a V

which is not wet, and yet is an element of V , and is all one

thing; which is not wet, yet is an element of V , and is all

one thing, which only p cannot exist without the S , because

it is from the Y which is the food of the ma't'ter and nourishes

it; it is fuIl of spiritual life, celestial, terrestri'al and

magnetical. (based on this statemen a"

strongly at O to be used as a magnet".t

.refreshed
It is by pure heavenly Dew, the- earth lsgss_it' and,

is its mo th e r. (Bacstrom feels this is'another reference t" (D I

V dwells with the $ and V must become f ; this pro-

ceeds from our matter.(ttPer Deli;quiuintt says Bacstrom)

TOATTRACT
INSTRUI,IENT THELUI{AR
HUIIIDTTY

(the di agran on the following page is the frontlspiece of

Volume X of the Bacstrom Manuscripts)
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 The apparatus is not described in the texto however, the author
does mention the use of mirrors, globes and phials without any
elaboration. It is not clear whether this diagram represents an
inventiol of Bacstrom or someone else.

In the below, the funnel extends through p partition, probably'

intended to keep the smoke from the oil lanrp from entering and
spoiling the purity of the lunar humidity, It is possible that this
p a r ti ti o n i s a w a l l of the "galIer y".

ft is presumed that the first globe, resting in sand, is heated

by the oil lamp, and the upward convection of lrarm air out through
the stopcock, draws in the cool night air through the funnel in a
manner similar to an aspirator or perhaps the temperature differ-
ential draws in the night air. The stopeock does present a prob-
lem as the night air would also flow out therethrough.

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AT'TE N

A PHC|RISI{I

Operis Maximi Ant iquorum Sapientum

1. The soul of Man as well as all rationar spirits (The Angels)

consists (according to their prinitive Essence) of the Spirit

of the World or Anina Mundi and the power of reasoning.
They are united and most simple and consequently in their
very essence, inunortal.

2. rn the Beginning God created the universar spirit or the

Universal Agent of Nature, the SouI of the Universe. This
is the first emanation of Divine Lighti it is a Unity and
immortal, capable of manifesting itself when moved or agita-
ted, into Light and Fire. It is multipliable and yet is and
remains but one. rt is omnipresent and yet occupies no vis-
ible space or room, except when manifested or multiplied in
its third. principle, Fire.

rt has the power of becoming material and of returning again

to universality. This is the subject of the stone or Medicine
of the Philosophers. The more you take this in its simpJ.e
universar, unspecified or unmarried state, the easier, simp-
ler and greater is your work, but the more this subject is
aI-ready specified, the more troublesome, corplex and expe'n-
sive is your process.

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 3. Ovr l,lagnet to attract it (although every subject in Nature

is Magnetical) is Man, and principall-y ;tnTxit .ts!t

lrn
(the Dust or red earth of Man) which in the rp.onths of !{arch,
April and May, the Sun i.V and U is abundantly found in
nT (blood) of a healthy mani the Spirit of the Universe
during this season residing therein most abundantly, uni-
versally and unspecified.

nb'Iltir signifies the first Man, ADAMor Red,Eanth, which

appears when the subject is dried up. In ilDTNit lies con-
cealed nt, that precious fluid, wherein dwells the Univer-
sal Spirit, attracted by inoperation and aory. The Dust of
the Red Earth, left by itself when the Universal Fire of
nature quits it. This Universal Fire is truly Nature.

4. The happy success depends on the subject being good, from

a young man, if possibl-e of a Jovial Temper or Choleric,

in good health, collected in a proper seasons, which is in

March, April and, at farthest, in May, while the Sun is
in f and O ; best after Northerly winds have prevailed.

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PRI|CESS

This is the first of all works, the most simplee the least
expensive, the easiest and the greatest in its effects. There

are various works and different processes, but this is the

o l de st.

l st. The subject contains fire, air, water and earth, and re-
qur-res no addition of any foreign matter, except when intro-
duced into the m.etallic department.

It contains the fire of Nature or the Universal Spirit,

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 with air its vehicre: it contains water, which must be sepa-
rated from it in the beginning of the work and arso earth
which remains behind in the form of caput Mortuum, when the
fire has Left it, and is the true 15y wherein the fire dwelt
for a while.

The subject duly collected should not be less than eight

nor more than sixteen ounces: place it in a china or grazed
bason and cover it loosely to keep the dust out.

2nd. In five or six hours time, the first natural segaration

is made: the p is carefutly poured off as useless and
pernicious. (This water is called The va:ten of the Dezuge,
which are not easily dried up)
The cold subject is praced in a double piece of clean
linen in a clean china bason, in order that the superfluous I
may be soaked up or absorbecl by the rinen arid that the cake
may become dry, in a cool, shady p1ace, free from d.ust. This
superfruous p wourd retard and hinder putrefaction, which
is the key to regeneration

3rd. As soon as the cake is freed from all superfluous hr:mid-

ityr cut it to pieces with an Ivory knife ( do not touch it
wi.th any metal )_ and put it, by means of a glass funn€l, into
your glass Globe.

4th-. The glass'Globe is immediately to be shut with a stopger

made of oak, which fits nicely, in order that the sugerfruous
remaining humidity Cthe phlegrm) r rndyr during putrefaction,
penetrate and evaporate through the pores of the oak.
The joint
of the neck
3td the stopper must be Luted, with
something that is able to resist outward warmth and motsture.

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 5 th . P l a ce yo u r r uted gr obe glass or gr asses ( for it i s m os t
'
prudent to work with five or six glasses at once from as
many good subjects) in a hogshead or wine pipe filled two
thirds full- with )t:y already in proper fermentation, so as
to show a degree of heat from l20o to l40o or 1500 r. The
greatest heat is in the middle, where it is generalry from
Lzoo to 1500: ress heat is round the staves where it varies
from 90o to l00o and from that to I20o.
your )t:y must be procured before as it takes sometimes
five, six or more days before it ferments and gives the
necessary heat. This is soon discovered by the steam arising
from it and by the thermometer buried in it nine or ten
inches oeep.

You must have two hogshead or casks, in order to pre-

. pare a second before the fermenting heat has entirery left
the first: which heat seldom lasts ronger than three weeks;
as your work must never become cold one single moment.

You must cover the top with clean straw, pretty thick,
and also all around the casks, especialllz in winter, or the
work will be too cord and your operations be very much re-
tarded if not a total failure.

6th Your bath, thus previously prepared, and your glasses

well luted and varnished arl around the joining of the neck
and stoppper, except the surface of the oak (stopper), bury
them in the bath all round the casks where the gentrest
heat prevails, deep enough that onry the upper part of the
neck and stopper, that which is luted, mdy be in sight or
level with the surface of the bath. If they were buried in
the middle, in the beginning of the workT lour subjeet wourd
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 dry up instead of liquifying and putrifying.

7th Every morning and night, take out your glasses and shake
thern gently, every one, by a circurar motion, in order to
promote the sol.ution of the red earth, which is generally
effected in two or three weeks time. Tfre whole earth dis-
solves into a deep ruby-red liquid, called by us Aqua perm-
a n e n a o r C h a o s.

After this liquification is accomplished the glasses are

shaken no more, it being then unnecessary.

8th. rn this manner, pursuing this most simple process, moving

your glasses from one cask into anotherr ds often as your
heat ceasesr you must proceed with your !r:y bath during
eight or nine months time, sometimes longer as the exact time
cannot be ascertained by any one ( the philosophers say:
. t'eoque nee d.esine eoquenet,l taking care. never to suffer your
work to become coldr so that the gras""" rn* reel cord, not
for one rromentr ES in that your rabour would be lost.
The surface of your oak stoppers wirr turn brack and
moist from the penetrating phlegrn. This causes the s.toppers
to swell and will burst the neck of every one of the globe
glasses, if you have not previously secured these necks with
strips of linen pasted around them, and harpsichord (piano)
wire wound over the linen, with a varnish over the whole,
and with lute where the stopper joins the upper brim of the
neck. The lute may be sealingr was dropped on all around by
a burning candler or rosinr of, quick-drying varnish thick-
ened with filings or iron or any other good luting that can
withstanil warmth and moisture; but take care to keep the
bottom of the stopper in sight by not covering the neck of

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 the glass quite so low as to hide it.

gth After liquifaction of the subject, putrifaction takes

place immediately. At first you see veins resembling O run-

-f
ning from the neck to the permanent ruby V . After these

veins or streams are vanished, the Cauda Paoonis begins

te appear al-L around the globe, sometimes coloured like the

Rainbow, sometirnes purple, greenr ndy Gold and Silver colours,

most wonderfully beautifuL present themsetrves.

10th During putrefaction, which generaLly lasts 150 days,

sometimes longer, the subject smells throuEtr ttre stopper like

a human corpse, sometimes so strongly as to be smelled all o-

ver the housei and the colours variegate most beautifully.

IIth After this putrefaction, which is called The Rauente Eead,

and which generally lasts 150 days or longer, has continued

its time, the stench diminishes gradually, and the subject

becomes a dry brick'-red coloured .re!r or dust, which

V,
remains settled at the bottom of the glass. This must not be
removed nor disturbed.

12th The subLiination takes place, the Universal Sptrit forsakes {'

the dead body 1l)r ascends and descends invisibly and now pro-

duces coLours of large extenti one day the glove is b1ack,

some days after it becomes olive greenr after that sky-51o"

and beautiful parott-green, then again purple or violet and

crimson, mostly in general colours all arorrnd the globe with

beautifirll small gold, silver, green and purple spots in the

neck, like a Peacockrs Tailr or a Rain*bow'. Sometimes it looks

Iike polished copper, then like polished steel and sometimes

l i ke bell metal.

1 3r h After eight or nine months, all appears'white, or rather

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 or rqthef like running mercury, of a metallic colour, and

tfie Universal Spirit sublimes and fixes itself at the bottom

of the oak stopper in the neck and remains there for three

o,r four weeks, as white as silver; and is the ?egene?ated

un iue?sal S pirtt corpo rif ie d in t o a sweet' fusible salt of

Natune above half fixed.

Below remains a foliat.a Y of a grey col.our, called by

us Ierca Foli.ata, which is of no use if you choose to take

this white salt or subLimate out for multiplieation, in order

to make tlne Whtte Medteinei but if you prefer continuing the

digestion, you must by no means open the glass or med.dle

with it. Thig qtr:!t-e^ sublt-imate from one glass will not be more

than three, ,offiix grainr most.

"*
You have now in your possession the Corporified Spinit

of the lllnioense, t,JneRegenenated. Fine of Natune), the ^9au,tonn

and Regenenatop of Matter, or the llhite Medieine in its first

infant state, the b)11 or Regenerated Light. This is already

a universal medicine for the anirnal creation, but it is to be

carried further to greater perfection. This syeet salt or sub-

Iimate looks like copelled silverr or like tlre moon in the

morning.

PnocEssFoRrHERED|\4EDICII|E
OR
PERFECTEDSALT OF NATUEE

Dtbn )L,e, Consunmation et Perfectto

14th. The glasses are now to be removed to th.e middle of the

bath and kept therer €rs the work now requires more h.eat. [By

Fahrenheits ttrermometer, the heat in the niddLe at the depth

of 10 or Lz inches' is generally from 1300 to 1500 ). continue

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 the digestion Coque nee destne eoque?e, renewing your trty
(digestion) every fortnight or three weeks, a few days be-

fore your heat ceases, removing your glasses from one cask

into another from time to time as your heat may require.

lour White sublimate fixed at the bottom of your stoppers

will d.escend again into lg)t and frorn thence re-ascend, and

wiLl pass through all the former colours several times more
untill it fixes itself once more at the bottom of the stop-
per. (by us called que?ea domus) and becomes first of a
safron coloq!, but in the course of a few weeks, more of a
fiery, red colour. This business (from the !{trite to the Red)

. requires sometimes three of four months, but the exact time

cannot be determined. Now you are in the possession of Olbn,

Consummation est of Moses and Aaron.

15th During the first and second digestion, the subject dries

and liquifies several times, and undergoes nany changes of

colours, which appear all around the globes and in the neck

of the glass, and never cease untill the red sublimate is

brought to perfection.

There rernains again an earth, the Dust fgy which is of

no further use, being now totally deprived of A which is f.ife
(admire the simplicity and truth by whiclr TherSubject and

this Formative _qqst is plainly decl-ared in the words ilnTiln t

I tr 15Y as well as the lt'IagnPt.

Flnsr fvlulrrplrcArroN
oF rHEREDIIIEDICINE
IN $UALITYANDPOl^.{FRr BY THE METALLIC
R A D r94 LHUM I D. T T A
Y ND
i r T S S P E CI -
i FI cATIoN Tow.ARDS l-.u!t
ruERAL[tlR-
i
TU REF o R T n n n s M UT A T I o N, '
i -8 -
IL
16th There ape onl1z three Universal passive fLuids or humid-

. ities in Nature. These three, centrally, are very analagous

to each other.

. For the animal kingilom, the animal fluid or Bl-ood is

appointed; for the vegetable kingdom V , and for the rnin-

eral kingdom 6 , which is the radical humidity of metals.

+
E ac h of thes e thre e f lu id s c o n t a in A , V, V, - so u L ,
sp iri t and body , - A' 1.
, 0, e F r o m e a c h o f t h e s e f lui d s,
"
if properly treated and duly animated by the Universal Spirit,
a universal medicine may be made. Now in order to specify to-
warcls metallic nature, your universal regenerated Spirit or
SaLt, the White or Red Medicine, proceed thus:

17th Take four parts of the White or Red Medicine and ten
parts of highly purified mercury (best revived from cinabar)
and make an amalgam as follows:

Put the very accurately weighed ten parts of UT in a

small china tea cup or in a small smooth crucible, on a
gentle charcoal fire, and let it stand until the 6 begins to
fume. Take it that moment from the A tavo$'Ur""'ttttttq aNY
of the fumes as they are noxious and'corrosivel c and at the
same instant add the four parts of the Vilhite or Red Medicine
(previously enveloped in softened wax) to the just fuming
>(
(*) . Stir
hot it with a clean solid glass rod and you wiLl
't-
have an amalgam.

The multiplication is performed according to the table of

Pythagoras; radius or one side of the equilateral triangLe
to the whole figure thus:

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 that is, four parts of the medicine to ten parts of the
m e ta l l i c V

SF Dle Esr r o Ny' lr r HT HE

P n o c E So
MeTALLIC !^lnrenoR FeRMENT

1 8 th this l5i is'put immediately into a sma[ globe glass

of sufficient strength (fhe neck previously secured. with
linen, wire and varnish to prevent it from bursting), not
above z inches in diameter, or of such a capacity that the
amalgam rnay firr no more than one fourth. part of the globe
in height- rf th.e globe, however, be a rittre rarger, there
will be no harm: that is, it is better if it is a little too
big than a litt1e too small.
secure your grass with an oak stopper, and.lute it
exactly as you did before.

19th Place it in your bath, but now in the middre, where tlre
g r ea te st h e a t i s, i n r 40o - r sOo. Bur y it in the } r :y s o deep
that the stopper may be a little under the surface of the bath.
20th Do not move it except when you are obliqed to place it in
another cask. By degrees, the universal Medicine unites radi.-
cally with the Metallic water and becomes, in two or three
months time, if the white subrimate has been employed, a si1-
ver white tinglng rnedicine, a dry substance extremely fusible,
in one' solid' mass, after having passed through arl the coloursi
but if the Red medicine has been usedr it becomes a red tinging
Metallic Medicine which rooks in the dark like a growing or a
fiery co a l .

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 ten thousand parts. After the fifth multiplication, one part,
one hundred thousand parts; that is, one single grain would
produce L7 lbs. 4 ozs. of .
". O D
(Who can comprehend the incalculable A of Nature ! In-
f i n i te l y mu l ti p l i a b l e . )

N E r H o oo r s A F E LyADM T NT sT ERT NG
T HEl,le u r cINE
TO THEHUMNN BOOY

31st rake four ounces of the purest, most highly rectified

spirit of wine (not corn spirit): dissolve therein, without
heatr oR at most, only in the sunrs heat, one grain of the
dirst, second or third murtipried Red medicine, and, observ-
ing well the colour of the tincture thus forured, add a sec-
ond or third grain (according to the trnwer of your medicine)
and a fourth or fifth r ot more untir your spirit of wine be-
comes tinged, of a transparent ruby colour, like Burgundy
wine- then cease to add any more of the medicine.

The medicine of the third order will sooner tinge the

Spirit of S7ine sufficiently deep than that of the first.This
hiravenly essence is the Highest and, most universal Aunum
P o ta b i l e o f th e e a rl i est ages.

With this glorious essencer w€ tinge a gint of Irladeira

or Lisbon or good old.Rhenish Wine, dropping our Ruby essence
into the White Wine until the latter become of a deep orange
or pale Burgundyr oE deep Malaga colour, and appears so in a
two ounce phial.

This medicinal wine may safely and without the least

danger be given to both sexes and of all ages in every dis-
ease, whether the disease be hot or cold, acute or chronic

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 makes no difference.

A teaspoonfull may be given as a dose once or twice in

24 hours in dangerous acute or obstinate chronic diseases,
cancers and the like; but in slight cases, one dose only will
effect the cure.

32nd The Red Medicine, thrice muJ-tiplied, placed in a glass

globe, with a stopper luted in, and, suspended in a room, gives

light in the dark like a fiery.coal.

33rd Tbe white Medicine, after the first rnultiplication, coagu-

lates and fixes a tumbler or glassful of clear water into a
rock crystal. Put one grain after another into the p until
a distrubance is observed to take place in the \/ , then
ceaser and in haLf an hour the glass wil.l break leaving.the
crystal fixed.

34th The same White medicine projected on glass in fusion,

leaves the glass when cold, perfectly ductil-e and malleable.

35rh With:the Red multiplied medicine, glass fluxes or crystals

are fixed into diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other precious

s t o ne s.

CoNcERN
I NGTHEGuogE-Gt-*ssES

The glasses are gl,obular digesting glasses of five or at

mostr six inches diameter, with a neck five or six inches in
length and wide enough to admit your thumb, or at least, your

middle finger.

You must make stoppers of fine grained, very oLd Oak, to

fit nicely into the necksr.which should be ground on the in-

side a little rrtay so as to form a nice round hole for the

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stopper. t* should go into the neck one inch deep
_"aopper
and should leave one inch above the neck.

The globes for rmrltiplication are atiout tvo inches in

dLaneter, with necks three or four inches long and wide ei

nough to admitL a
- fingera
.c!--^ .
'

the glasses should be macle of conslder'able 'strengtli

All
i ..

'substance.'
at least one eighth of an inch in

'\
'1
 UP L E I{ EN T

T O T H E F OREGOTNG {A
APHORISMS

If the globes containing the subJect be three, four

or more times electrified in the beginning, hf,ore you
put thern in the bath, so as to ihtroduce the Electrical
Universal principLb, or the Universal Spirit of ltature
into the subject by motion, the same spirit in tlre subject
will be greatly strengthened, the operations wi1l be ac-
celerated and improved, and you will obtain an increase of
the first white € or 4, below tlre Oak stoppers.

Abooe I hape faithfully eommunieated our Aphoriems,

STGTSI,IUNDBACSTNOM
Lo n d onrA pril 5, l7g7 M. D. F . R. C.
ANT IMON IA L A B O R S
OF

F R A N K F URT I 68O

MERCURIUS MERCURTO Tluoqb C'; I i.c lift'r tqnrhe od

ttlr d d tlirr 31a $rl rh.ra J l!
Pa SrL SulPhur, f,l'ctsuriuil .d, rld drr h Frrfr*t- 3 rt lit\
Fit t.pi. Philoqhorua. btter lt- lL pwilr cr

ffi I
Yc6
lluldi

!!d.
e'.Dittl
Mrtrnrr
liL A
tuDdu.
bbonedo
cnd. lDiti'
bcrri
Co|robl
Aro
Acrcr<I
d grolurdur
ir rtsa
b.b.. lct$-
potrt-.

ltle
Thou ert thc boginnlng and 'nd ol O, rolo loll oI God in Trtnitt'
iir,t irt hoP. tlt.r dreth' Hrvr m.rc1;t G ll!1. ln rtrrrrltY.
Saturnur, thr rrbirth,
Sol, Lgtl., i_tr bodr-

TRANSLATED BY]

b.T8gq,gq,B@fir,
fi|.w.

PR O D U C E D B Y :

4977
 fnetructtone

Respectlng

Antlnonlal Is,bourg

for the

SOPErCMERCURYI

&ctra$ted fron the rorke of

A. Von Suchten l{. I}.

1797.
 ?

Thlrd Treatlse

of

Aatlnony

by AtHm$Dm VOlt SUCHTIXVM.D. & Phl].osophus.

Fraackfort, 1680. ( gernar)

A Von Suchtenr s process of preparlng the

,U0 fstetlatusr

You nust cleanse y.our $ proceeding fron

*ao *u aot fron
" + Q
Salts. Th1s netafuc in tb.e antlnonl"t r.e red,uc"i foro
$ Q Q "t"",
aad,at last th1s p vfve becones pure O .
The netafffc$ I whlch nust purlfle tUe $ , tE to be found fo d
onlyr and. no vb,ere else, and tbl.s puriflcatlon l.s perforned l.n the fol.lor-

1ng nanner.

4 6Gterratus.

Take good trcn 4 | , I take snaLl lron naLl,s, put tben l'nto a etroag
a
roory[ , uhlch place ln a Wlnd. furnace, ralee a good heat, and let
lt stard, uatl'l lrou perceive the nalle becoue soft and pappy, the[
belng of a l{hl-te heat, then proJect tnto tne[ A] of.good pulverlsed
+
6 , re1l. beated, ratee your A to a great Eeat, so that tne Qy'nay
nelt well rn tue $ i
fhea thror tato tne I rrith an l.roa spoon harlng a 3.ong handle, a
 5

tood handful of (D , prevlously relL heated and. thoroughly d,rledl and

lt 1111 f,uLulnate, therefore your nust be large, that the natter may
I
not bol-l or€te

Thea ralse a great heat, tbat lt nay flor th5.a, and pour it out as
bot as posslble lnto your heated and o1-led Lron Coae, and let 1t cool
graduatrly.

When it Ls cold glve the nass a bLor wltb a hanrnerr and We & rrtlt
droP fron tbe bLack-greenlsb Scorta. Thl.s Scorla resenbl.es a Marcastt;
you nay preEerve them, uutll you learn thelr nature, for l.n them ls a
nystery rhereof f shaLl not speak at present.
(fUe nystery 1s, that TEE FIRST -.,-
SCORIAcontatns the A. ot
F- -- Cl
v
*
ana $ I rhllet theQ! contalns both
9".,
Put the ,|il tnto a l{er , let lt flor, a6 6oon as l.t ls nerted, add.
V
I ll2 1 ot fresh poudered and heat"d 6 , and let then re1l flor to-
;
getherr tben proJect ae before a haadful of very dry heat"d , ralee
O
Jrour beatr that they nay frow and boll strougly together.
Whl1st lntensly hot, f1ow5.ng as th5.n aB V , porxr l.t ].nto your heated
olled. Cone, and Let l.t cool gradually.
a.t
Beat We tfl from tbe Scorla. th1s & t" flner and purer thaa the
flrst. The Scorla thror ayay, because they are good f,or nothbg.
Let thle /ff nel:t ln a o"q , aad aa soor aE 1t flovs c,,ear, pro-
V
Ject a spooufuL of b,eated, (D r yor nust cau6e the Q to fror on the
,^t
llke an O"O, rblch ls effected by ralelag a strong heat, otberrrlee
tbe @ rl-lL be coagulated, and renalne bard, oa the surface.

Ratee your beat, aad pour the nase out lnto your heated olJ'ed Cone,
 4

and- let l-t cool.

Tbl.s & rc stll} flner and, handsoner, purer and, more netalltc than
the forner.

These Scorla are good for nothlng.

The 4tb tlne let thJ.s Q tU, ln a ner cLeaa V , and, ae Eootr aa
!t nelts llke proJect agatn a snall Lad,le fuLl of heated @ , and
O,
let tben well boll together, about 2O nlnutes, then pour lt lato tb,e
heated Cone, vhllst it flows Uke OOO , ralstag your heat to a great

degree, the monent you latend, to take 1t out.

Let I.t cool gradua}l.y 5-n the Cone; when cold, beat the ,//l frou the

Scorla; lf the Scorla are of you have worked

" QColour ";1y.
Your Q an be tt-ke flne ) , and rtlt have a fine Star on the
Superflclee and vlth1.n.

Tbls Q! r*t welgh nearly { , lf you have rorked rlght.

L
In thls process tue $ tb.e Mercurlal SouL out of we {
"*t"i"t"
and reduces I.t lnto a arf p .
Th5.s U t" nothlng el-se but A r aud operates I*e A rand dlgeste
?-
the crud" ia the $ , separatlag the nlnera fron the netal.
9
You nust also observe, that tne I ot (* 1n th1s purlft-ed, 6 ,
hidden in the ) coroor of the antlrll"t p o
rue ) CoLour you 6ee ln thls & , ts not fron tu" $ , but fron
tU" p , wherela the 6!r"y" concealed,rtErcErs NOTsrNe
ELsE
Q "t
B Ur o .
thts dtr la tbe antlnonl"t p rlke a*-o" A ( A rather)
H "t
lt renaLns llvLng ln tb.e antlnonlal p , unttl lt 1s corporlfled aad
 5

SEPARATES
ITSELF fron tne of 6 (CoeL: PhiLosoph: Msc.)
Q
ff you can conprehend rbat that A f", whJ'ch thus purlfles ,O" $ ,
you rilI also understand wbat that A t", rtulch purl.fles and dlgests
.L
our naglcal, Q , tbat ls: you rlll know what the ph5.Losophlcal O f",
rhlch. f call nOfaBILE, whl'cb eeparates l-teelf at the Eod fron
Q the
+
O of tbe phllosophtcal$ , l-rrthe eane na',laer as tbe pureOt" sep-
.F

arated. fron tu" of 6 .

Q
(f tUf* COETUMPHIIOSOPH: explalns a1l thie.)

If you rrieh now to revlve tbts antlnonl"t q l-ato llvlag , ta

I
nust be done Ot , but wltbout a nedlum lt cannot be done; becauee
Q
we aee tbat tbeQ cannot be nlxed, wltb r oD account of, tbe
"orroop
$ contained l-n the r)ll .
As thte t" not netalllc, he bae no Synpathy rr5.tb cbnnon , and
4 I
therefore hlnders the nixture.

Therefore a nedlun of unlon nust be fouad out betreen the coumon

and antLnonlal $ r and ln thJ-e nedlum there nust be a power, rhLcb l-s
I

not I.n vufSarp ; as ln vulgar p tU"t" ls no Specltlc porerr There

are bui two sorts of p tbe conson and.tbe Sopbt" q
",
Nos as the separatlng power ls a nercurlal. Speclfic power, re nust
\'
flnd out l.n uh,at tbat porer can be found, and Experlence bae taught,
$
tbat lt 1e ln no other u"t ltt TEAT oF ).
Q

Pro c € s B .

Therefore take flne D t and,of your pure ft ttz , let the

J 7.
f,
 6

) cro" well la a l{er [ , then add the Q , and. they vtrt f1or soon
and nelt ln the , and look Llke .o*oo , pour lt l.nto your cone,
V Q
and, you wlll obtaln a Lead coloured maEB.

Thle maes red.uce lnto C lt I.s easlly d.one; Thea take pure co@otr

d. t ? + o* , t- pour tt tato a glaes phlal, then pout the poudered, Luaar

fu ,o", tie pararto tne p (r,et rt etaad,

" d Pt!
E.lr. so rhert' vur
go l-nto the 6
Y

t-
s) shalce the phlal welI, ln order to nl,r the subatanc€Er
aad when you I e e the d-e}I nlxed rlth the runnl'nss l{ )- Pour l't out
!}
aad Edate i.t
'
- lt-
Y e 11 on a warn stone, and you s111 have a true aAa.

Purlftcatlon of the Eha.

Put thts Eii into a wooden dlsb, pour p upoa lt, and 6rtnd lt rltb
a rooden pestre, aad tbe V rrrr becone bLack, pour the blacup off.
Pour fresh! upon lt, grtnd agaln uatll th5.s V r" becone bIack,
then pout lt offr and contlnue rashlng the EEE l.n thle il.enper, unttl 1.t
le l.I'ke tlne aad the sater renalue clear upon lt.
),
The bractV wasbed fron the ?ii settles in the p , keep lt, and
pour tbe V off gently.

Put the iii fnto a glass phlal, Iet l.t stand, orrer al-gbt tn dl.gestloa
ln a bathr then pour lt out, and vash lt as before, and J.t r1ll fleld
more blacks , contlnue these washlags, unttl iotr can get no nore black-
ness fron tbe EEE.

rou nay also 6rlnd tbe iii wlth pure whlte e, and tbe bracknese
ntll part fron lt the aooneto
rI
I 7
I

Il Wben you can obtaln

and beautlful l.lke ) .

no more blacknese fron the EEE, lt vrtll be pure

I
Observe the nore blackness the ?ii yleJ.ds, the nore 4 t" reduced

l l.nto antl.nonlal H
'Y' -

I T{hen tro nore blackness cones fortb by tbe rasbin6, then put your

I brtght EEi rnto a gkaee/O'

1. €. from the '
and dlstll the runn1"u q fron the Eii,

rr ; ; " ; J ; ; h a e b e e nwe lr perform€dr your (D 1111 rema1n ln the

@ llke a beautlful whlte . But lf the ) ls of a 6 colour r 1t ts

V *
oo
I
a stgn, that it contains yet sone

Therefor f,, coloured ,o.A nust be wasihed furthei, uat1l

^ " )q
no blacknegs renains at all.

llhe Recelver nust be fulI of cold p , before you distff tUe p

over, and, you wllL obtaLn a nost beautlful and pu"" S , rhlch l.s of a

5 fold quallty, vLzr, *rrrl aatlnonll and .

Q Q Pifit
But note that tUe p of d does not transnute the 2 othere into 1te
own nature, because the aot radlcal-Ly nixed w5.th the 2 othere,
Q "t Cft"
and. therefore ls separated agaln from then aftervardsr as you xrJ-ll ,hear.

rhereforeth:.s p ousntnot to be carreep of Cn, but 6 '

I "t
6," full Jt p.
because rhe (twmch rays concealedr-n thle
I ",
our distllled. , tr volatll Q , and that you nalr see and bel-leve
Q
It, take a snaLl quaattty of your brlght rashed aaAr before you dlstl.l
tu" p fron lt, and cause the p t" evaporate fron tue ) gently, and
tb:.s I voratlle ex 6fc tbat i" p ot Cfl*rlr renaln rrlth the ) and
tlngee your )foto a nost beautlful Colour of O , but as thls O t"
 I

volat1-Le' lt d,oee not remalu w.J-tbtUe Q 1n tbe nel'tl.ng, but foreakes

it and fllee off.

you bave d1stllled fron the Eii, 1o€r fron tUe

nA"
Q ) , by,fr,
penetrates the netals, and eeparates the ElenentE of the netals, that
H
ls l.t d lvldee'- une p fron tue rblch cor,,rnoD .* not do, except
$, I
lt be anlnated, Ot of O , aad traneforned, lnto lte aature.
Q
(the process agreea rlth tbose ln my other l{IiS. on}y fresb regulus
sbould. be nelted witb the renalnJ.ng whlcb ehould tben Ue iiitea
DP
trlth tUe fornerly dJ.sttLled. This sbould. be repeated ? or lO tlnes.)
Q
Thus far Von Sucbten coucernlng the Al 6d .

The sane Autbor, p. 2]4 srftes thus, 6 is an Ore, rhereLn lays

a netal-, whlch f" 6 . This I tU" physlcal artist nust extract out
* ft
of tbe Q . The separatlon roust be nade ln sucb, a Eanner, that tbe

Metallic SpJ.end,ourwhlch 1e consplcuous t" 6 r Day not be burnt aad

lost, but nust be exaLted aacl extracted;

Thle netallic Splendor appears after the sepanation of tbe exter''al

,\+
burning t" the Scoriae, and,le then no longer comnon Q , but TEE
?
MEROIIRY
OI' THE PEILOSOPEERS; thls can be nelted and caet Ilke anJr other

netal, and, flons in tbe Ilke pure . By th1s eharacter Jrou nalr
{ D
knor that t't is ao rouge" but q ; arthougb 6 is not ,"t
"orroo $ Q
lt contalns U l-n lts center.
t
 9

ri X
Respec tlng the I lntroduced tnto the
of
I ?
; the same Author writes as follows:
Por 6 *
(See Engll sh Edltlon o f h ls S e c re t s ofoo
Londonr 1670. po 8l )

tr ehalr nor shos you b.ouyou Eay obtaln, by neans of the

6 ,
Q "t
tbe Q whlcb anlnatee your . Tbls O tu aotbiag else than the
0 "t 6
pr"r --whlch ls ia d; the eoul in nan: but as thd.sO a. ao nore
corporlal ae lt was before t" 6, but tbrougb tb.e or $ u"t
Qr"r-..-
becone a4- lt can Do more be nade corporeal but only through, t!,e -s--
of g ot . rh{s.n- ls nor tu" ot 6 ':
Q ; nor 1s it uer$ 11 1s a
Q
nlddle betnlxt both. Slhen th1.s nlddle coneth forth of O ber parts
ralr 1u pleces, thar is the p ana . rne p o, g ln the
+ "J.u..o
'- tb e $ ro .t b e washed fr on lt, aadls a sulphur eoua gr ay
Q "t 6
V like ashes.

Take 2 lib. of the beet Eungarlan @u ; dlesolve lt la connon p ;

set lt in a stroag pot over tUe A end cast half a handful of snall
pieces of lron thereln and let tben seeth tberel-n for lO nlnutee; thea
pour off the p r and put to tne f tne $ shlcb you have dlstirled
tto"O (that ls the $r"t wmcn h""th"d tts proper nunber of Eagles,)
Q
tne $ rhlch the fo"u reduced frou @, wrrr thus Eiite t.tself xrlth
tu" p . Wash the EiE clean that aII the pieces ot {^ y come fron 1t.
wheu pure and clean let lt dry aud tben put lt into a g].ass phlar, set
it io B.H+ for 8 d p lt wlrr becone of a dark gray colour, thea
^ru
Pour lt out aud vash Lt clean 1a tbe usual naaaer l.n a rooden dlsh.
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*
The f whlch you wash fron the Eii put apart: thea put tb,e EiE aealn
JO
ln B.M. for I O f , and wash lt a6 beforso Do thJ-s a third tlne.

But l-f you woul-d rea olve all the lnto q -_-r n
and you must repeat the
I ?
work till the aaa be converted into pure Vlve, whl.ch ntll- not be
y
qulckly done.

Ilhen you have b,ad tb1e EEE tUrfce ln B.M. and, thrlce rashed l-t tbea.
distlL the Vf"" fron tne as. you d,ld before fron tne ) . ft ls
Q Q
nor nelther nor S , uot throush tu" p hae beea
Qvurear Q "t "t q
fernented,and transnuted,lnto tne p ot .
Q
Thl.s t" a wondert"f , as every one can proye lrho shall
Q "t Q Q
use lt ln cbenlcal, operatlons. The =6= also nade of th:Ls f" exceed-
Q
i.ag brlght and wonderful tn the eyes of Alcheniste, but brlght as I.t l.s

It ls a deadLy polson Ln physlc: keep yourself fron Lt, and let not

h5'e flae appearance d,ecelye you.

}J
In thJ.e tUe Q out ot d lays yet hldden: l.t ranteth tb.e
F "t Q
frlgtdlty of th,e noon by whlcb lt sball, recetve tbe perpetual & flret

coagulatlon of O; and the process of coagulatlon l.s ae follows:

Take of flne ) t" which there le no Q r part of thle I

Q "t Q
parts; naJre an iii thereof, and that i.t nay be the easler accounplLsbed.

d5.seolve tne ) fa\Cand precipltate lt rrlth t" t e usual manner.

I
The rr111 fall to the botton ln the form of a flae brlght 6 , vhlch
nay --easlly, b3r'grlnd1ng, be EiEted wlth tue ot q . Sash th1.e EEi
Q
tlll lt be clear and, brlght: put lt lato a phlal. and let lt stand 24

h,oure l'n B.M. bol]lng - then 1111 1t be as .black as a coaL: take 1t outt
grlnd it on a stone, and rash I.t cIean.
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The bract Cnrch you thus separate re tbe soul ot d , rht-c,h le

thue drawn fron the-.sr- of 6 and by thls vork le coagulated into ;
Q
but rrtth thls Q t1""" are as yet foeces of ruch bave been drasa-
$
fron tne p ot by tbla coaguratlon; for the
le atraya greetr
I Q "t 9
oa the superflclee. tirrs greeuese 1e coagulated rr!.th the
Q (er Martls)
pnd belngr ylth lt, eeparated, fron the theQ auet be reduced,
Qvro",
lnto a bod,y aad so ls tbe-rl. ot dtoooa. Thus you aee vbat the-.* qg

dt", and rhat comes fron h5.n. Ee that rlshee nay tben try bor nucb
r" ln I rtb. ot d; for so nuch O shalr ne flLnd therela aad no
Q
Bore: and he rrLLL flnd the cost Eore thaa the Q le rortL.

ElnLe.

(rle coet rtll certalnly be Eore thaa the proflt if tt" t'u. f€-

duced,into a body; but tn" drs ln fact sophlc O *a d,tb sopH,c q

nay b5r proper treatnent be dlgested lnto a tingtag nedlcl,ne. ses COETTIM
Pmr,osoPEoRlntrPgil,oPE PoIrA, ltss. rlthout Dame, etcl etc, etc.)
 rrl'rts

Von Suchten l'n bl's CbenlcaL rrltlnge, Ger-

nan edttLonl Frankfurt 1680. po 2r4. rrltes

ae folloss:

trAntlllony le an Ore wherela lays a netal rhlch t" . fUa p

Q
T
-1.
the pbyslcal artlst nust ertract out of the Q . Tbe separatlon nust

be nade l-n eucb. a nanner tbat the netallLc eplend.or, rhl'ch Le consplc-
*
urus fo O r maJraot be burnt & loet, but exalted and, extracted.

Th5.enetalLl,c spleador (coasplcuoua l.n tbe A 6d steuatue) appeare

after the separatlon of the external buralng t" the scoria; a"nd,the
4
6 t" th.en no tonger connon $ oot the q of the phlls5spberE.

ThLE can be nelted and caet, llke any otber netalr and flors la

th" V l.tke pure ) .

.b
By th1-e Character you nay know, that Lt le no loager connon Q ,
uut p ; altbousb 6 ls not p , yet 1t conta1ne t" ite centr€. rr
I

I belleve !.t rill, not be tnproper, eye! supposlng that a aucceaeful

practlce should not conflrn fu1ly the Theortrrot theU 6CftaeLLatue:

belng tbe pblloeopb5.cal qi r BB VOS SIICETE$AND BECEERposJ.tlvely afflru,

to note here aLl that I knor about lt, relltlve to tbe VIA SI0CA WO-

LENTA or mode of Sudden Regeneratlon and. Elxatton practleed by YIEROOR?

cho conversed xrl,tL EELVETfUS, M.D. at the Eague.

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The Adept 6ays 3

rrln Respect of TEE l,lAlTER of our Arcanuu, Kaor; that there are oaly
Tro Metale and Mlnera1sl out of nblch lt le nade; and as ln these }fl'a-
erals tbe SuJ.phur of the Phllosophers te fouud, plentlfully, tberefore
l-t j.s nade out of, DIl.nera1s.tt

fn aaother place be saye trTBEMATTERor CEAOS, gHE !{E}ISTRUUM

le a
beaveaS-ySalt or of heavenly Vlrtue, wherenlth. the PLllosophers dl'esol.ve
tbe terrestrLal }[etallic Bodyr aad. durJ.ng tb5.s Solutl.on tb.e preclouE
pbilosopblcaL ELirlr ls extracted.
Itb.e operatiou is perforned fron the beglnn{ 116to the Ead tn a
I
^A.
in an opeu A .
Tbe whole work requlres no longer tl.ne thpn 5 or 4 daye a''d no
greater Expences thau 5 Florlns.

l{elther TEE MII{BA.I out of rhlcb, nor the SaIt by uhlch tt I.s uad.e,
Ls expensive,

f b.ave told Thee enough, but Tb,ou doest rrot Knor how the PhS.losopbers
glaeey SeaL of Eernes 1s prepared aud broke agaln, ubereln the Sun rl.tb
her netalltc strangely tlaged Rays enlts lts Splendor; and la wbat sort
of Looklng gLass the netal.stransnutable look a.t each other rritb tbe
Eyes of ilarclssusr and by vrhat Rays the adepts lLght thefrA , by the
assr,staace of which the volatll netalE are flxed elther lnto ) o" O .tt

Tbe ad.ept sald, that the Tlncture of hle uaster, rho taugbt hin, ras
-|3
the colour of A? .
" 6for
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The Tl-ncture of the adept shovn to Dr. Eelvetlue conststed 1n 5 heavy

pleces of the slze of a Waluut, glassy and of the Colour of A o
?
Ia another pJ.ace he eays: rrl{ot on account of the Bnpenstvenesa of
the natt€lofl

A Etar of rlne, o t"& r.o { *rtn tne ) ln=E.

The Adept reconnends SEIIDMGfUS COSMOPOLfTA,
and saye: rfn bls
dark rords lays the truth, as also l-a the netalllc aad nlaeral external
Bodles our pbllosophlcar Tlncture le encLosed and hldd,€tr.n
DR. EXLVETIUSaalrs:
nEllae Artista haE told ne: ttthat the Cbalybe or steel of Sendlvoglue
1e that very MERCIIAIALMETALLICEUMIDtrTI, by whose aesistance'aa ArtLst
canr nlthout any corroetve, ln tbe a , ln an open v , separate tbe
flxed So1ar and. Lunar Raye fron thelr Body, and aftervards convert the
Volatll MercurlaL Tlncture lnto a phllosophLcal dry Ttncture.ft
In anotber place b.e says:
(Dr. Eelvetlus) rrfhe of a pure or tnpure metal, rhtlst
A.F 1t 1s
unlted to lts body, 1f it ls nlxed rltb a Rock-Salt and throrm Lato the
A , I-t easlly becomes a hard flxed Y .r
(a Rock le ln Latln PETRATconsequently lt elgalfles Sal-petrae,
R o c k-S a L t-P e te r. Q.)

ANTTPATET and SYMPATEYof Metale.

6 ts asalngt 4 p a'dO Eelvetl.ue.

D and,
d 1s asatast O
ts asainst )
A
6 6and6.
6 ls asalnst p
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BASfL VAIENTINE hle trlunphaat Charlot of Aatinonyr in Engllsh.

page lt6. ftThls Regulus or Slgnate
Star neLted often rlth the Stony-
serpent ( (D )is brought to such a stater &B at reagtb 1t (/A ) cor-
su!trs rrsEtF rIiI rr, aad rhorLy unttes ltself rlth the serpent ( (D ).
Th[e beLag done, the sectator of art hae a natter altogether
hot
and fleryr rlf l||ErcE vERr MucEoF ART rS tATAtr. n

SAI,IA E]III(A HSC: p: ,9.

ftrhe whole secret consists rn thls r that you conaune the sarts €a-
tlrely (by meltlng) whlch comode the & and convert i.t tnto A and
?
Tlncture. fr

Thl-s le arl r can collect relatlve to th1.s natter. f beg you rj.1l
Study lt and endeavour to brlng tt into a rational proc€ssr
I nust add one sentence more;

SENDMGIUS, 9th. Treattse , p. JZ.r g€rn?n Edltlou l62g.

r?There ls one tletal , nhlch has the poyer f0 CONSUMETHE OTHffiS, as

lt ts alnost thetr ) and thetr mother.
V
oue onLy Tbiagr tbe Radlgs] f,rrnrr
dlty of O ana $ does reslst 1t,
and ls aneltorated by lt;

But that f nay dlsclose tt, lt ls calred cEAtrBs otberrise Stee1;

(a 66.
rf Oie nlxed TEEREWTTE
il TrlrEs, the Q enlts lte spern, and.1s
 ,

reakened. al.uost to death, (lt parte to I part of O ) cgE cEAtrBs co1-

ceives or becones pregnant, and brlnge fortb a Sou, nore glorloue tbaa
tbe Father. ( O ). (the Son ls a Tlncture).

rf afterrards the seed (Tlncture) of th,e aer bora ie put to lte

proper Matrlx, (tn tle sane SonUrc p ; nultLpllcatlon) tnat natrlr
purlflee the Seed and nakes lt a 1000 tluee nore apt to brlag fortb, the
nost glorloue Frult,rl
(Iren. Pl'{laletha p. l5t aays that TEE FrERy DRA@I{ie€. tbe flery

e "t 6lt*u"" the uagicaS,chalybe,tr€o Id. l-n hts ovn Berry; tbts
rl' d"-
unlted,to the U constr,tot"",f! 68"ter1arue. )
U "r 6 ,
(observe tbat aE yeII
$"fo"" ""+.od Ounrted are catte6 a
flery Dragoar and,alludeE here to the Fnlnea rhlch, the
Q effects, rhen
lt attackE the external, buraln8 ot 6 *u €, destroye rhat he
$"
catr conguerr and throws the rernalnlng upwards lnto the Scor{.a. )

ELnl.s.
 PROCESS

FOR

THE TAPIS

WITE O AIfD E.

T RAN S L A TE DB Y :

, Nl.w.
b.Twgq,bq,s@fi1
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PROCESSO

tthlch ls tbe Prlna Materla of the Phllosophere, of thla O that

bas been relL purlfled,ln raln-water or Dewrand.chrlstallleed,
tnke 16 ounces, grlnd,1t snall and nlx some of the Earth out of
whlch 1t rae llx1.v1.ated, and calclned, wltb lt and. put lt l-a a
veesel of Glaesr lnblbe.tt'rlth Der or raln-rater aad set it ln
the Suar wben DrIr lnblbe agaln and repeat tbe Eane eeveral t1nee,
for 4 weeks that tbe unlversar splrlt of tbe A1r nay inslnuate
ltself the better lato the eane, then nake rouad.perrets of the
aaue and f111 sucb a Veesel thats burnt of good Materlale half,
ful.lt put tt ln a f,urnace rltb a Large recetyer 1n whlcx there
has been ftret put 2 neaaures of distlIled, Der or raln-raterr lute
lt wel.L and dlstlll rlth the 4 degrees of flre, a Splrd't and
volatlle saLt or the Volatlle Snake or T{lauga contt-nue the same
xrttb fresh lngredlente tlLl you have forced alJ. tbe Vol.atlle 8p1r1t
.-r)- of eucb SaLt. Non you nust also nake the Splrlt Volatlle,
or Put the 6ane in a glass ltnbeck as thls and
put a head wlth a long beak to lt and put tb,e sane 1n a Balneo
Marlae: Aad carefully drar over arr the phlegna. Thea when coLd
take l't f,ron tbence, and pLace lt ln nlunz GapeJ-Ie rl-tb
(1.e' a sand.heat) aad dlstll or drar over the Splrlt,
but as be stlll wants ble wlngs, you nust repeat tbe d!.stlllatton

? tlnes per 6e. The seventh tlne gtve hln ble volattre salt tbat
 ,

they nay both cone o,ver together; at the laet gl.ve strong flre
when the Wlngs of tbe Snalre 1111 rlse l.n vhlte florers, take then

and eubI:LBe otr l'et tben rlse once nore tlll tbey are qulte clean

and transpareat and, tahe great car6 of tben. Then take tbe Caput

Mort. on wbat renalned ln the Veesel fron wblcb you dl.etl.ll,ed

the Spi-rlt, pouad. tt enalI and, pour distllted Der or raln-rater

on !t and. extract a salt fron tt, tbe same purlfle and f!.I'ter

eo ofteu t111 perfectly clean and transparent, aB a lllanond.

Then you have the Snake w"lthout Wl.aga but take 6reat care tbat
you lose notblng ln the lTork that the pouderous or [el-ght of

Hature lray renaln conpleat; take that flrst Salt gdld !.t snall

aud put 1t ln a gJ.aee.Vessel and pour the Spl'rl.t aid your Vol.at!'le

SaIt upon !,t, lute tt very sell tbat nothlng ualr evaporate or

fLy fron 1t, place !.t ln a gentle rarmth, then the flred r11l be

dlEeolved by the Volatlle and opeaed arrd tbe Volatl.l'e snalre 1111

devour the fl'xt one and fron botb 1111, proceed a ttery creeptng

Drakel here you bave the Qulatessence and the bleselng rhtch the

Lord IaI.d l.a the Eartb, wblch ls the Der of beaven, and of the

fatnese of the Eartb, (Gen. XXWI-28-29.) the 1lfe of a].l tblnge

tbat are ctreated. Tbls Llquor le sweeter thaa Suger. llor to

kaou hor to use thls bleseed tlquor.

Rx. take balf an ounce of purlfl.ed Gold (by Antl.nony) beat

lato leaf goldr put lnto sush a 6lass (here ls an l'lluetratlon

of an long necked round botton flask-D.E.) and pour 2 ouncee of

 4

tbl.e Valuable tlquor upon lt; put lt lnto a geatle beat, and. the

GoLd rrfff dlssolve gently lnto a blgh coloured yellor Ltquor, aad

greyish earth w1ll settle at the botton. Then eeparate the clear

SoLoutlon ln a glass VeseeL that 5 parts of the Ba"e nay renaln

enpty; eeal tbe gl.ass hernetlcer tbat 14, nelt the top part or

nouth of the Veeeel c1oee togetber, aud place Lt ln (bere he

hae an llluetratlou of an Atbanor-D. E.) thl.e secret furnace,

glve 1t gentle degreee of flre for 40 days aad atghte t111 1t ls

aJ-I gone lnto tbe putrlfactlon and becone b1ack, rhl.cb tbe Aaciente

calLed the Crore f,ead. Thea put lt 1a ashes and.glve etronger

flre, ae bot ae the Sua-sblnes ln the blgbest l,lerld1an: Wben the

Itlonders of Nature w111 appear rrttb all ber Coloure [h,e.a Pea-

cocks-tall. Then ercreaae your flre yet so that lt be nol red

hot, theu appearB after l1O days the Whlteneesr tbe Moon shlne,

aad Dtana couea forcard ln her Snor rblte Glltterlng Vest. Shea

glve Lt the 4th Degree of beat for 40 days and nlghte longer ;
here you nust bury your Vessele ln ashesr when 1t bae stood for

40 or lO daye 1n tbts Degreer the red Lloa r1I1 appearr FI'll

draw h1.mself together llke a and wtII Eeparate i'tse1f

Il-ke the yolk ln aa eggr Tble nor le the true QulntesseDcer a

11ttLe of whl.ch thrown oo 6 f,ead. pervadee Lt and, turne l.t tuto

(?) t for lt ls a true tlacture, to d:.seolve a litt1e(?)tatn thl.e
\-/ \-/f

heavenLy Llquor ls a powerful MedJ.clne for all dleeases of the

body by taklng but a yery fev drope onl.yr lt nakes a man rleet
 5

aB it encreasse the strengtb of the body and dellvere hlu out

of dl.6tresa aa weII.

But lt le aeceesary to knov that ttule unlversal LLquor before

lt ls nlred rlth the GoId nust be nade netalLlc and, tlt to operate,
by tvo safer fiLrst; nlth Mercury Vlvun Purlflcato vblch. by the
ttquor la turned, lnto a pwater, for 1t wae notblng but aa a

Sat"tleh llater, aad, thle !.s the true Keyr rhen he ls opened, aone

feces d,o settle, tben the Llquor nust be separated, then re go

on aa the Author teacbest, the other nethod far exceeds thJ-e here,
take of the Mlnera Saturn t vrf.:cAls an entlre Volatl-le seed of
^4. G.
( )"ud )), beat lt snaLl after barlng been reIl cleaased of
\/v
tbe niner Bour the Llquor upoa lt, thea thle blessed l{l-nera r1}1
alL dleeolve ltseLf, ln such; pour off the clear Solutloa and,
aone freeh. upon lt, when tbe vhole ls dlssolved pour the rhole

cLear Solutloa ln a g1aee, put lt 1n a cool place, lt 1i11 gl.ve

nost wond.erful Chrletlal.e, when tbat 1s done thl-s wonderftrl SaIt
nay by dlfferent or Several ways brought lato a TR or tlnctrr€r
There l-e anotber netbod to obtaln th1-s Secret, Vlzl tatce
the purJ.fled, Sal,t O U"tore you drar or d5-etll-l a Jr- Sptrtt
\-/
fron lt, dry the sane yery reII and put lt ln a dl.stlLllng glaee,
place tbe sane vith tUeQSalt 1n (galneo Vapor) or steen heat,
\-/
or tn horse dung, but lt nuet be a coatlnual steenlng warnth
keep I.t there Bo IoEg t111 the SaItOO" converted, lnto aD o% :
Olly Llquor and. separate fron a1L lnpurlty, decant the clear fron
 6

all the fecee, lu a cLear glaes, put the sare lnto Balneo Marle,
aad cabeful.Ly dlstlll over the Pble6nar but that rlll be very

li.tt1e tlll l.t ls coagulated agala: Then put the glase lnto fresh.
horee Dung to putrlfLe and dtssolve, tben coagulate t.t a6aln aad
repeat tbe sane tlll your (e) Satt le flx and flore l.n the
(A ) flre like rax rlthout dlnlautlon, rhea lt le la tble State
then Keep l.t very carefully: Take flne GoLeOretlned thru, Artl-
lrony (dleeolve l-t 1n Aqua fort, shea aII dlssolved dl.stl.ll- l-t all
over out of a glase yesEel, then pour!rater upon l-t and dJ.e-
eolve lt agaln, and &tstlLl the rater fron lt agaln, repeat the
aane eeveral tlnes, at tbe last glve alrays etrong flre, rhen
your fort rA11 nostly go over rlth 1t.. Dlsso1ve !'t ouce
!Se*
nore and. put aone of the Mereury tn tbe Solutlon, the sane 1111
attract tbe
GoId to ltself , dtstl-Il tue \drater fron lt
O
\-
agaln to a porder, set the 6ane ln a sealed glaee in the f,lre,

vhea the Mercury rrlll f,Ly fron lt, and leave the(?)UrUnd Ll.ke
\./
a loose Earth qulte open and porous, edulcorate or uaeh th5.s
earth l.n dl.stl.lled raln-water Eeyeral tlnee, then dry l't, and
take thereof 1,/4 ounce, of tbe above Llquor or L-lquide Alkachest

or Mercury Phl-l,osophrun 2 ouncesl tub lt seLl together l'n a glass

Horterr put lt iuto a glase Vtal; called ln Gernany Fbiole, secure

I-t wel.l that notblng nay fall lnto lt, place the vesseL l.n a Sand

heat and gl-ve J.t the fourth degree or etrong flre, t111 it nelts

and, flowa togetber lnto a red Stone or powder; xtth tbls you naJr
 7

do woud.ere,for 1t vlll tranenute all conuon MetaLe latoo.

whea Jrou pour aone of the above univereal Mercury whlch you have
prepared of the Volatlle and the flxed Snake upon I.TAGNESIA
aLlas
P1uaabunlflgruu, a beavy l,tlaeral or ore, lt opeas or unrocke the
sane loto agreegr for lt contalns the l1fe of all Metals a!.d
l,[luerals, aad thle -fL Sptrltus ]tuadl of aII thlage nalr be used
ln cAAl,r,arrol{E vrRTUTrs ElrxrRrs AD PR0tOttGAt{DuM
vl$t!,t for 1t
nalntaLae and supporte all, thlngsl Els 1s the true green Vitrtol
rlth rhJ.ch one nay do wondere.

But that you Eay be enabled to eat and rnal.ntain Jrourselve6

uhlle tbts great work 1e 1n band, I rlll teach Jrou a anall rork

that Jrou naJr do at the sane tlne and 1n all places. TakeX X -
rusty lron (suppose Grocue Martls)

rhlch 1s and a volatlle gold

ore or sand,r 6rtnd and nlr lt togetber, put Lt la a strong stone
or eartb,en yeseelr subllne lt, what ls sublLned, ml.x agaln dth
the rest, and add a llttle freeh{ , to lt, subLlnle it agaln
*
and repeat lt the 2ad tlne when you rrlrl recetve a gol'dl'sh srb-
ll"uoate wlrlch you nust use thue. Melt I 5 ouncea of the clean
(purlfted) netar O ln a strong earthen vesse1 (a cruclble) let

lt be ln fuslon ;L strong ftre for an hour then ntx Z ouncea

of thls Br subllmate ntxed. ulth fat and put tt lnto the neltl-ug

V let it flos or be 1n fusl-on for aB hour and you w111 flad

l-
(by pourlng tt out) that you r11l have to ltve, nhll-e you are at

work about the grand Search.

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I uust teacb you one useful tblng more when you have a nlght
f,at Earth, and extract the 6ame rith Der or eranay, (1.e.
!
dLstllLed Raln-water) by evaporatlng tbe sane lt con ahoot lnto
a Salt by reasoa of l.te fatnese and fat Vlscous Salt, when you
observe thlel Let lt evaporate to a thlck Syrop rtker tbl.s Syrop
or Jel,Ly ls nore valuable tban the chrletaLs for tbererrltb you

nay go to work, aanel.y that you nlx so nuch of, lte (bere a6a1a

ls the phraee tbat I have Left out before, because 1t appears to

be tn German end also that I cannot nake lt out. BesLdee tbe
Author tells ue lrhat the pbraae Eeana, D, f,) Uxlvated and
caLclned. Earth trlth lt and dlstlll over tbe sptrlt, by rhlcb
tleana you rlLl rece1ye as nuch agaln of thls Volat1l.e -Jr- (Spfat)
the tlxed Sal.t rematns behlnd, rhlcb nay be lklvated,, and pro-
ceed,ed ln the rork the sane as before lnstructed.
 THE WORK O F TH E

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In

T RAN S L A TE D

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A reTT&A&B$ PRoDucTIot'l
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of

tu$ GREASTI'rER

Transcrtbed fron atr o1d !f.8.

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The Great EIix€Do

Purgatlon o f q.

fn the name of God, Amen.

Talre Mercur5rr xrLtb connon salt prepared, l.n aone rooden vessel,
and beat and, rub tt whi,le the eart be nade bLaek rlth tn" p , Tben
pour hot rater upo! lt and etlr lt well together rlth a peetle of rood
t111 the salt be dlssolved la the rater. Th.en part tne d fron tb,e
+
water and put to more salt prepared and do aE before sald, the second
tlme.

Then put the $ lnto a vessel of glaes aad set l.t 1.n a furnace snd
f
pout upotr lt good vLnegar & a rlttle salt prepared, and nake a verJr
sLor flre under lt, and bolr it yltb a soft flre, tl.Il the vtaegar be
coasuned aray, La yapour.

Thea vaeh tUe S rlth cLean rarn ra1u water; part the rater fron
tu" p ; straln ttl q through a crean rlaeu cloth, tlree fold, and
put lt agaln la a cLean glass vessel upon a slor flre, rhile 1.t be d,rled,
aad' avoided. of aII nolstaese of the water that vas put to 1t before,

and' tbea tUe $ ls clearsed fron all his flttb and rrill be brlgbt, aad,
+
shl'rng aB a glase aud, ls la degree as fiae eilver.

Purgatloa of Copp€Fo

copper ls purged thus: Take Q tn"t ls pure and nelt lt, and rhen
?
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tt l.e nolten cast upo!. it powder of Venlce glase (that I's glase tbat
contalie ao lead) flnely pounded and, searced through fine llnea. clotb,
and etlr then uel,l together xrlth a stlck rhlLe the blackness of tbe

0+ +renaln vlth the pord.er. Melt the Q a second ttmel and put to lt
more of the glaes powder aad stlr l.t rell ae befor€-saldo Lthed-se
nert the Q a thi.rd tlne and do 1n all tbtags a.e before.
?
Tben ls your copper pure and ready to be reduced, l.nto his ora proper

water.

Resorutlon of O tnto hls orn proper Hatsro

T

Thea. flle the purged O lnto flae llnel aad proceed, tbus: 1:ake one
?
pouad, of the llnature ot I aDd trelve pounde rell purged aa
q
I "t
thou wast taught before. To the I pound of rtnature of the eald Q
+
purged put a little vtnegar nade of good wlne, aad a ].ittle salt and
stlr then together. Tben put to lt of the foresatd purged $ slovly
+
by L1tt1e and Llttle and bray tben reII together, and do so ti1l four
pouads of the 12 I'bs. of the said, *U tbe | lb. ot tb.e sald, l{mature
P
of the sa1d O U" tncorporated, aad nade aII one.
?
Tben put all lnto one Urlua1 and close the vessel that no a1r go
outr aad' set Lt upoa a furnace and, uake a slor flre under lt for the
Epace of one d.ay and one nlght. Then let lt cool, & shen it 1'e cold
bray lt ln a rooden dish r.lth warn sater. tVasb lt reIl aad part the
water fron lt and put lt agaln 1n the urlual upon the furnace to dry
rlth a slow flre. Aad rhen tt 1s dry bray it, aad Etraln and vrd,ng l.t
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throu8b a clean, stroag llnen. clotb, tbree fold; and aff tUe rhlcb
S
l.e reeolved 1111 6o through the cloth.

Then talce that uh1ch renalnetb ln the cloth and bray lt as a.fore-

sald, putting to lt as before other 4 Lb. of the 12 lb. q reLl pur-

"t
Bedr and set lt upoa a sLor flre, ln an urlnal; a day artd a rLght as
before, and do ln aLl polnts tb1.s secoad tlne, ae thou dtdet the flrst,

and put the resolved Q rhlcb thou etraluest througb the clotb to the
^?
otber whlbb thou stralnest through before.

llhenr ln like Bannerr put tbe renalnlng 11Ib. of the 12 1.b. of prrr-
ged d to that nhLcb renalneth ln the clotb, aad rork, as before; and
Y
put tt Ln aa url-nal upon tbe ftre, and proceed tn a1l polats ae tbou
dldst tbe flrst ttne. And eo lterate the rork rhlle the Q rb5'ch d1.d
relgb oae pound, be resolved l.nto ble ovn proper rater; thb,?t 1", l.nto

q , rh1ch rlth the I Ib. of rell purged

Q? rfff nor nake altogether
l] pound.s.

Mercurlficatlon of the Perfect bod,les, O & .

)

fn the 6ane manner that bae been taught rltb Q , you nust reduce
t
pure sllve r l.a a glass, alone by hlnself rith 12 tlnes as much of cel1
purged 6 ; aad ia like naBaer of gold la a veseel apart by lteelf rltb
iF

twelve purgee [
tLn eE 60 nucb of re}l .
t
And when every one of these netals ls resolved, each ln 1te orn
ve sse l, 1n to lte owa proper nature, that ls to eaV fnto theu proceed
Q
aE folloss
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To brtng tben lnto thelr EleneBts o f Earth

and Watero

Put the resolved rrtU h1s qi lnto hls own vesse1 alone, by b1m-
Q
self. Llkeyiee put tb,e resolved, ) rftU aff fte p tn tts orn Yessel
aloae by lteelf, and,do so rltb the Q and ble p .
Close all the vessels and put tben upon a furnace ald bol'l. t!,eu
rltb enall flre day and nlght unttl you see blackness upon tbe upper
part of the resolved , and blackaese fleetlng upoD the resolved ),
Q
?
and, blackness fLeetlng upon the resolvedQ ; tbe. rh1ch blachnees gather
prettlly & rlsely, but let the natter be cold flrst.

Keep every bLackness alone by ltself, aad lterate the rork rl'th
seeth,lng and gatherlng the blackaess fleetlng upoa then so oftea t111
ln tbe veseel of O there rlse no Bore blacknese and. tb" U Bppear clear,
.F T
aad t111 lu the vessel of O no blackness doth appear, and Bo l:l-kerlee
of the ,Z/ o

Then by the grace of God thou hast of the copper resolved, tuo eLe-

nenta, that ls to say earth and rater; and llkeylse ofO ana ) tro
elenents, that ls to say earth and rater. For the blackaesa so gathered
Ls earth, aad t heg , that renainetb cleaa ls the WATEROF LfEE.

To obtaln the other two elements, Alr, and

trllre.

Then take the black earth of Q and one llttLe portlon of 1ts oro
?
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[tArER oF LrFE, trlnd. then aad beat then togetber and put then I-n a glass

vessef, & pour a llttle portlon nore of lte own rater of ltfe to l t,
and croee tbe vessel well, that no atr go fortb; and rook tbat the sater
of, llfe do srln over the earth.
Aad so shall tbou d.o wlth the bLack eartb of
Daad lts ora proper
uater of Life; aad so aLso rlth the brack earth of
Oand hle proper
water of Ltfe, keeplag each alone by ltself.
set the vessels oa a furnace and nake uader lt a sror flre for the
space of 12 daysr and. look ever that the veseels be wel'l c}oeed. And,
when twelve days are passed rooh yhether every earth have drunk l.n lts
owu water of rlfe, aad lf lt be eo nake a strong flre under the veasels
andr by alenblck, conveJr auay rhat of the rater of Li.fe vtll not remaln
coagulated, and congealed. rltb the brack eartb, aad thea the black earth
falleth tnto a6hes.

Then bray those ashes, and let theu drlnk ln part of the rater that
waa coaveyed forth of then by the strength of the flre.

Tben put the ashes agaln lato a vessel of glass r iB ls aforesald,

each klnd by lteelfr aud pour upon each part of lts oga nater of llfe,
and seetb then for the apace of twelve days. And. d.o ltkerlse ia all
potnts four tlnee. Agatn pour upon every black earth alotre by 1tself

another port{on of lts owa water of llfe and close tbe vessel as afore-
eald and, set then upon a furnace and glve a elor flre rqother twelve
days; and do eo fron tLne to tlne tlll every bLack eartb becone whl,te
ard clean.

And wben thou hast every earth alone by ltse1f, shlte and, e1ean,
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tbou shalL put every uhlte earth aloae by ltself la a strong veeeel.
rtth au alenblc put upoa lt and set lt upon a furnace, and at tbe ftret
gtve a slos flre and aftervards a stronger aad stronger; and so colt1nueg
seethlng the earthr tllL eyery rater of L1fe go forth of h1-s ora proper
earth and ascend up lato h1s lenblck, and thea everlr wbLte earth- eball
renala ln tbe botton of hls vessel calclned aad dry as unslacked. LLne.

Thue bast thou obtalned other two elenents: tbat 1s al.r aud flre
of , air and flre of O , and a1r and flre of O . For every rater
Q
+
of Ilfer wblch batb cone forth of tts ora earth and batb ascended by
alenblckr tbrough the strengtb of flre, is 1n hiE oya nature ae AIR'
and ls called. of the Phlloeophers the PERPETUALWATER(aqua perna"eae),

aad. every whlte earth wb,lch renalneth 1a the bottou of hls yessel dry
and calclned i.s l.n bls nature aa FfRE, and i's called .the pEfLOSOPEERS

ASHES.

ConJunction for the Wlri-te Work.

fben proceed thus unto the lVbi'te vork. ff you have one pouBd of
ASHES(the whlte earth)
the PEfIOSOPHERS of O , take oae fourth part
?
of the SOPEfC ASHES (tbe sh,lte earth) OF SILVR, that ts 5 ouncea, rlth
one portlon of the PERPETUALWATERof tbe whlte earthof O , (vi-z. the
?
! tnat cane forth of the whlte eartb of O by strengtb of the fl're
f
& aacended lnto the lenblck) and put then lnto a glass vessel yell closed
on a furnace, and, malte under lt a slow flre atrd so 6eeth tbe med1elne

rith a soft flre tl 11 the of the wh1te earth of D have drunlc the
J lrri
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portlon of the perpetual

Agaln the Becond tlne

water of the earth, of

let the aforesald \

I
tu
tr a
rh t c h

of shlte
wa a p u t -

earth
to tt.

of
J,
) e":.of. ln another portion of tbe aforesald, perpetual rater dravn and

eubLlned out of the whlte earth of O and seetb then la a close glass
.F
vessel vLth a Elor fl.re Ln all polnts ae before, and and after the sane

nann.er rater, bray and eeetb tben a thlrd tine, and do 1a aLl. polats

as at tbe ftrst and second tlne.

After thl.s Bane naraner rater, bray and seetb the pound of rhl-te

eartb of O rl-th one portlon of the perpetual rater dravn and Eublined
.r
out of tbe vh,Lte eartb of O . Seeth lt rith a sl,or flre, tl-ll tbe
pound^of the rblte earth ot g have drunk a portlol of the perpetual
rater of tbe wblte earth of that ras put to lt. Thou shall do 1lke-
D
rrlse a second tlne, and a thLrd tlne.

Thea take the resldue of the perpetual waters drawn and subllned

aut of the whlte earth of O and out of the rh5.te earth of ) ana nlngle
t
tben together and nake of these tro ratera one rater.

Then take one part of the rhlte earth of O so l'nb5.bed as aforeeald

and three parts of tbe whlte earth of O so funblbed, & nlngle and Joln
?
tben together rlth a LittLe portlon of tbe foresald rater nlxed and

conpounded of the foresald resldeace of the tro perpetual raters.

Agalu put one part of the whlte eartb of D to tbree parts of the

whlte earth of O and ral-x & Joln then together rlth braylng and sstsj-
?
lng wlth one.otber good portlon of the foresald rater nlxed and conpound-

ed of the resldue of the perpetual waters as aforesatd.

And. so do, n1'nglln6 &'Jolnlng by llttle and I!-ttle together the

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rhlte earth of and, tbe wh:Lte earth of

Q
? D dtb.. the foresald. proport-
1on of'nlxed and conpoundedwatera of the resldue of the tro perpetual

uaters aforesaldr rh1le the foresald eartbe wlth the foreeaid raters be
lncorporated togetber.

Tb.enput tben lnto a glass yessel, reII closed tbat no a!.r go fortb,
and set lt upon a furnace and nake uader lt a slor flre for the Epace
of four days. And, so lterate tbe rork and bray lt and rater lt, rltb
a slow fire bolllng lt; untll the foresald eartbs have drunk tbe fore-
satd sater nlxed and conpounded of the rennant of the foresald PERPETIIAL
WATERS.

Sben take the water of tlfe out of rhlcb, the black eartb of Q wae
?
gathered and the rater of llfe out of rbI.cl the blach eartb of rae
)
8athered and. n1r tb,ese two raters together as thou d!.d.Et r].th tb.e per-
petuar vaterE drara and subllned out of the foresald earthE.

Wltb. a portlon of the water 60 nixed and conpounded of the afore-

satd waters of llfe bray tbe aforesald earths and put then 1a a 61ass
vessel well closed; and eet lt upon a furnace, and boll then rtth a elor
fLre { days. Agair put water to 1t and bray & beat Lt Ln arL polnts
as afore, & so lterate the work agaln, braylng uaterlng and bolting tiII
all the raters be drunk lnto the foresald earthE.

Ebat doae, boll arr the nedlclne rlth a eror fLre sir days, and
tbat ln a Yery good glass well closed that no alr come forth. And after
slx daysr by lLttle and lLttle nake the flre stronger, but at laet keep

an even firer aelther lncreaslng nor dinlnlsb5.ng, under the furaace for

l4 days or tlLl the sald earths and water be brou6ht tnto one body-
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the wblch tblng you shh}l perceive vhen the colour ie not dlvers ln
tbe eartbs and waters, but ae well the earths as the raters be perfectly

coloured v.I'th a perfect colour of pure sllver. For La. tbe hour of Joln-
ing together, before tbelr perfect dealbatlon or wbLtenlng; aad before
tbe perfect colour of flne sllver come, aII the coloure ln the sorl,d,
ehall appear; and in tbe end, after the transltory coloure, the rboLe
nedlclae sbal,l becone chlte and coloured noet perfectly rlth the colour'
of flne sllver.

Tbea l.e the STONEingendered & our labour eaded,, for the eartb of

A
.F
, tbe eartb of D ; and the raterE of llfe and the perpetual vaters
are Jolaed together wLth the bodles aforesald, cleansed and subEned,
and converted Lato thelr aature rhlch could aot be before because of
thelr uncleaanesE aod 6ro6aaesa. With tbese l$ature lncreaseth and, aug-
nenteth that tbe stone nay be lndued rrtth a nultlplylng poser. For the
stoae shaLL be fuJ.ly nade and lngendered by raterlng the bodlee rtth

d after digestion or concoctlon a6 aforeEald.

+ ""e

MuItl'p1tcatlon.

The Stone groreth and nay be nultlplted to tafl,al.ty, and that le

thue:

Take - rhat k1nd of q thou wllt - purge and purlfy lt tn a].1

"t V
points a s h,ath beea showed before. Pour part of tbe unon t he Stone
Q
slowley by ltttle and Llttle, eyer glving htn new q , aud. bol I then
on a s10 w flre. And agaln lnblbe aud boll and so lterate tb,e work ritb
 tl

rater ( that lsq ) and botllng untll the stoae have druulc tn and be

nultlplted as nuch as you w111, for there le lro end of nu1tlpllJ-1-ng.

Reductton of the Multtplled whlte Stone l-ato

StIv€!o

If thou xrllt thou natrrest nelt part of the rork for preseat support.
Take as nuch of tbe rlulte etoae as tbou r.llt, put tt 1n a cruclble and
glve flre, but nLthout the bl-ast at the first. Af,terrards ralse tbe
heat rd,th the blast aad,lt shall be turned and. nelted. lnto nost flae

) , perfectly prr€r

fhe restrdue whlch thou iateadest to contlnue nul.t1.plyJ.ng keep un-

nelted, for wben once 1t ls nelted 1t le onlyD *a-cannot be nultl-
plled aBJr more; but before neltlng J.t nay be nultlplled AD INFfNITII}I!
bela6 stlll- tbe Stone calLcd ElirJ.r.

The Red Stone.

By proceedlng ln all pointe & j-n the Eame manner and forn as thou

dldst for the Whlte Elixlr, rith tbe same proPortlon aDd measure, thou

lnayst nake conjunctlon trlth the white earth of O and four ttnes aa

nuch, of the nhlte earth of O , using the perpetual waters and the water
Y
o f llfe o f the same, as ln the former work, aad the Red El.txl.r shalL

be lngendered..
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And ln llke nanner ae ln the uh,lte work 1t uay be augnented and

nultlplled to 1.nflnI.ty. Aud 1t nay be nourlshed and watered rrlth U )
of whatever klnd, lt be, whether p touaC ln tbe earth or p mad,e ,
"I ?
o f l e a d , o f tl n o r o f o th er netals.

The cause of tblsr accordlng to the PhLlosophere, l.s th5.s Mercury;

ls naturaLly all oae natter ln all netale, and therefore fron al-l' nanaer
of p weLl flaed, purifled and subllned nay ftae O *a flue eiLver
be nade.

According to the autborlty of Aristotle la LfB. 4t let aLl arttflcer

of Alcheny know that tbe netals ca""ot be servlceabLe except they be
brought to tbelr flrst matter, trercury, aad be clea"sed fron thelr cotr-
upt'Lon by heat of flre. But by tb,e reductloa of netals.to the flrst
natter, that fs to p I the rork ls possible aad. ea6Jr; and then they
nay be augnented aad nultlplted AD INFINfTUM, for everythiag tb.at l.s
lngendered and groweth, nay be augnented and nulttplled, as ln vegetables
and ani.mals.

ELt l s.
JOEL LANGELOTTUS
m.d.
Phys ician anq prj veg coun cellor of
hjs Serine fli ghness the Re igning
- Duke of Eo-Zstein Gottotp.

Hl.s letter to the curious of Natural Things aofrcerning tH.ngs

orftitted or taken ltttle notice of Ln Chimistery; cand,tdly dis-
coverl,n$ secrets of great moment and things hitherto thought
not to exist.

T RAN S L A TE D F R O M LAT I N in 1798 BY:

BY: 6,Tggq,sq,n@fr|
, ffiLD.
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I
I Joel tangelottue
I
M. D.

Phyelclan aad prlvy Councellor of EIE Serlne

(Elghneee the relgalng Duke of EoLeteln Gottorp

Ete

Letter

To tbe Curlous of f,atural Thlnga,

concernlng

fhi.age onltted, or taken lLtt].e notlce of la

Chynletry;

candl'dly dtscoverlng

Secrets of great nonent aad fbJ.nge bltberto

thought not to erlet.

Translated from the Latln llec.

b y S . B.

1798'.
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Honoured Slrs and Protectorsl

We lntend to treat b.ere practlcalltrr

of DIGESTIONTFERMEHTATION
aad TRITURATfOIY, We do thl.e aot alone for
tbe eake of such aa are Be6tnners, but also to teach euch ae profeee

Chynistry, rarnlng the latter uot to leave off too soon, rhere they
ought to contlnue thelr operatlone, as by pereeveraace great rhlage
are acconpltehedl

We nean flrst to show tbe excellent use of a conttnued Dlgeetlon,

for obtalnlng TgE VOLATILEOotE . Eou thle haE been valued hltber-
-t
tor and wbat Care and Labour has been enployed to. obtaLn lt, re 1111

not nention b,ere.

I bave often had ln ny nlnd that f could Dever better or qutcker

o,btaln tbLE valuabLe voratlle e , than by conblalne TgE Frxr e ot F
rrtth lts volatlle Compaa!-on,TEE COMMON , but f obtalned but a enal.J'
F
quantlty of voLatlle Q thls way, the 6reatest part of'the renaI'nl-nt
F
bebj-nd.

Then tt occured to ne that A IOI{G CONTII{IIEDDfGESTIONnlght greatly

asslst the operatlonr and I succeeded so well by that nethod, tbat I

obtalned TEE VOLATITfSED

e Of I tUe flrst tine of a anow-sh:-te Colour;
f
Leavtng onLy a fer faeceE behlnd of an Y fy Colour aad l-nsJ.ped Taste.
I bave e:rperlenced the utlllty of a Long contlnued Dlgestlon l.a manJ'
other operattonsr partlcularly ln rlghtly preparlag the Sulphure and

Eesences of Minerals. Pernlt me to neatlon here an experlnent on red

coralsr uhose auccess 1n ny oplnlon arso depeaded on Dlgestlon.

Someyears ago I poured an 011 of dlstllled Vegetables upon sone

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Fra6meute of falr red corall wblch olL raa perfectry elear rike V ,
(.l
( O-O of C!.nanen would do adntrably nell) to try rhether I could obtaLn
a Tlacture thereof; But lt rae in Vala, and durht a long tlne aeither
the O11 nor the Coral,e vere s[anged ln the leaet; therefore dlepartng
of Succeeer f looked no more after ny glaes; but tbe f,ollorlng Slnter,
rbllst f occupled nyself rlth varloue Laboure l.n the lllgestlng Furnace,
I had a nlnd to try once Eore or to repeat the Drtrlerluent rltb ny Corala;
aad f nor placed that sane Cucurbtt ylth the Cora1e and O11 in the dlg-
estLng Ftrrnace, and uot rLthout a happy Succeee. After a nontbs Ttne
h'ad' elapeed.r f agf,tated the glass-Cucurblt, aad f.sar t[at the Fra6nente
of ny Coral rere becone nore lntenselSr red and eoftened., rlthout aqy
alteratlon of the OlI. f have therefore coutLnued that €an€ geatle
d'egree of heat, wblch waE about a 100 Degreera by Falir; and a fer daye

norer (A11 PuLl aaya that fresh butter dl.seolves red Coral
I EllG-
'.uto
llager by dlgesttng 1t.) f sar rhat astonlshed ne nuch; the Corals rere
totally dlssol.ved lnto a nost beauttful red nucllaglDegrra eubetance,
whllst the Oil contlnued srlrnrn{ng above tt unaltered tl 1te flret Colour.
I have frequently' shook the glase, ln Expectatlon that the Otl rould
unlte rlth the dlssolved. corars, but aLl 1n val-n, ae th.e o11 aLways
Fo-8.acetrded,and left tbe dlseolved, na6ea subsldl'ag ln th.e botton.
tr trled' lf a longer dlgestloa would not unlte then" but I could, not
Succeed; Therefore ftndlng l't could not be done, f separated the clear
O11 fron the beautlful nuctlagee and poured a higbly rect1fled aad tar-
tarLeed splrlt of Tliae upon Lt, and, durlDg a short dl"gestloa the red.
nucllage diseolved totally ln uy rectLfl.ed alcohol, and I obtalued, a
gl.or{.ous red llacture of egregS.oueVLrtues.
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Tbls Experlneat l.e a etrong proof what a long contlnued gentie

DlgestLon (hltberto very nucb neglected) re capable to effect.

I cqne nos to Fernentatlon. Hor useful th1e 1g 1n Chenleal oper-

atLonE f can aleo proye by a nunber of Facts. (rrttlout doubt ae Fer-
nentatloa and, putrefactlon ls tb,e Key to Regeneratlon aad a ner Llfe)
(eee Goldel Cbaln of Eouer Dac.)

I bave seen a londerful

+
Fernentatlon ln O , pearlsr Corale and
naEy other lfhlagel of rbl.cb r have forenenly gr.ygn an account ril TEE
GOLIORPIIRAilSACTIOI{S;ae f ehall do nor of the true Reaolutl-oa and. Vol-
atlllsatloa of Ut Fernentlon, for the sake of Iovere of Chgruletryl
F
and true Physlclate.

ProceaB

For the Vo1atlllsatton of tr o

?
(Sal Tartar)

Let 2 or 5 tb ot crude E O" calclned,, &ore or less accordlng to tbe

?
quantlty you r8sb, to render vol,atlLe.

It nust be calclned. but gently untll Lt 1e black nltbln and nithout;

thLs ls done to get
ov' a Fernent,
$ whererrlth
r4e-er*es to
v! feraent.ot"F a
-Y-rvsvt
T

Place your black calcined Q roto a roonJr pot of bakealdF I reLl

+
glaaed; pour only aa nuch, cold S upon lt, that the p nay staad one
Inch above the poud,ered, ; place the Vessel ou an exceedlng geatle
F
heat, Eo gentle that the V grors only comfortably rarm, but aot hot;
a8 sOOn a8 you percelve l't Eor then BprinkLe half a hand,fuL of good
 ,

Crude I ffnefy poudered !.nto the potr. and, Iet J't etand qrrletlt uunoved,
t
and la'a ehort Bpace of tlne you n111 see snal.]- alr-Bl.adders raee above
the V I rhlch,. 111L increaee Dore and more. SLea trrou 6ee thLe, and tbe
alr-Veelclee lncrease !o uore, contlnue aa you began, and thror lnto
tbc pan half a handful Dore of tb,e 6ane fi.uely poudered, crud,e co!-
F,
f
tlnt"lng the eane gentle rarnth under or round tbe contalnlng Veseel" and
by eo dotng a greater Fernentatlon yiIl be exctted, aad, the alr-blad.dera
r1Ll, rlse ae before la exact order, and look LIIG NATIIRALGRAPEIS,all.
but the Colourr rhlcb f bave nary tlnes rlth, great pleaeure obseryed,
and I have dravtt from thence the sure argunent, tlat
Crudefi r &B rell'
?
as other SaLte prepared by artl 1s capable to represent the origlaal
Sbape fron rhence l.t proceeds (1.e. The Grape).
But a Yery accurate aad Equll Degree of geatle trirnth ls absolutely
necesaarJrr tbat ls a noderate Warnth, such- a one as eyerlr Fernentatloa

requlres. (eee Boerhaave and Stahl on thls eubJect, rho have sal.d eyerJr
thlag ueeful and curlous).

You nust aleo be cautloue, that by a too coplous InspersLon, Jrou nay
not exelte too great an Ebullltton, sblch would cauee the ferneated
Substance to ru! over and out of tbe paa alt at oace; therefore take
a roonJr Veeeel.

After harlng proJected crudefl at dlfferent tlmes, every dayr you

+
111L flni at last that thie Ferneatatioa graduallJ' ceaaear BE aooB as
yon observe th{ er lt 1s tl-ne to begtn lnnedlately the DletlUatl.ot.
Pour the shole quantlty of your fenrented E] lato a Cast-lron Cucur-
?
blte or bod.y; lf you take a gJ.aee one, you nll1 hardly avold breaklng tt,
 6

because lt ls neceasary to apply frequently a Llnnen dLpped ln Cold V

to ltr ln. ord.er to prevent too great an EbuLlltloa of the fernented Sub-
stance wittuln the body; as by a ltttle too nuch heat, tbe natter beconeE
lnpatlent and ftles over all at once lnto the Recelver, and your oper-
atLoa is at an Endr or frultless. For that yery reason and danger, tbe
A'
A must be governed, rLth the utnost Care and attention, begfnnJ.ng rrlth
a very gentle d.egree of beat La.i:1., and glv1ng Eever !o Bore beat, than
what is Just Deceesary for the VOLIITILEO to aecead.
![evertbe].ess tbe A nust be gradually although gent]y lncreased, and
at the En4 of the operatLoa J.t nust be pretty strong, tr order to expel
all the volatlJ.e Q .
Iou apply a gLass alenblc and lute I.t carefully to tle body and adapt
a roomy Recel-ver, wb5.chlute nl.cely to the alenbic.
If you bave proceeded. rlghtly and cautiously, you rrl1l flnd. that
your thtck and fecuLent [ , by the sald prevlous Feruentatlon, l.s be-
+
come totally volatller eo that not eve! the enallest quantlty of flxt

Q renatns in. the @ , whlch I have experLeuced.nore tha.n oDC€o On

accouat of tbe phlegna whlch must come over, (as nucb \Z nas beea added

for the s+e of Fernentatlon, ) tle subJect ln the Recelver nust be deP-

hleguated and rectifled several tlnes, untJ-l l-t ts whlte, but stl-U

renalos a Llquld-lr- r whlcb whlteness l.s a sign that your voLatl].eJt- of

l.e sufflclently lnpregnated rrtth tbe volltl-le O ot .

F F
How lnestlnable tbls voLatlllseA Q ot I.f ts, tb,e Testanony of JOE-
I[}{ES BAPTfSTAVAN EELMONT
alone 1s sufflclentt yet for the sake of true

Philosopb:Lca1 nLnds, re w1L1 add, that we have found tbl.s Wonderful

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volatlle--rtof E of unconmotrEfflcacy Il{ UOSTIITERI{AL OBSTR{ICTIONS

f
aE wel1 as EXTERIIALDISEASESTDaX Ln MORTIFICATIONS and CAI{CXRS;
l{e have also thereritb ae a uost glorlous menstruun, prepared TEE
TRUEEtIXfR PROPRfEfAIIS PARACELSUST
of Aloee, myrrb aad Saffron; rhl.EL
1n vLrtue and safety surpassed the conrno! Ellxl-r Proprl.etall.e of tbe
IlispensarleE ae nucb as the Sunr g tlght 6urpa6ses that of the l{oon.
(Tbe proceoe of the,Dlspeusary ls good for noth!.trg.)

Nay l.f you oace have thls nenstruunr Jor EAVE ALS0 t*"
E OR ESS-
+
ENTIAI', PRI$CIPLES OF TEE DEPARTMETTS
OF NATUREI}T YOT'RPOSSESSIOI|I
'
(Concerq'lng thle valuabl.e Menstruun ealled by Theo. ParaeeLeue CIRCUL-
ATUUMINUSTsee URBfGERITS
EIS APEORISMTS
at the End of the Treatlse).
We nust not pass oyer ln elleuce the uoaderful use o.f a rell dLr-
ected Fernentatloa l.n eeparatelng tbe Crude lnpure r, so d.estructlve
$
and, lnlnlcal to hunan nature, by a nost stnpre and, connodious ralr!
(fron oplun aad helleboreretc.) The Truth of wblch riIl' appear by the
followlug.

Central separatloa of Oplun, the separatloa

of Lts peralclous narcotlck external

+ ,
and ExaLtatlon of lts Internal Eseencer Bo
as to becone a truly safe and, adnlrable Medl'clne.

Take of the best Thebalc oplun I 1b., cut lt lnto snall EJ.I.ceEand
put then lnto a litlde low glaes Bodyr pour upon l't fresh Julce of rtpe
gulnc€-applesr or nes fresh Clder lO Ib. Weight, and ad,d,I X- of pure
t
C
 I

dry e qf calciaeA ; thea expoBe your vessel to a gentle rarmtb, and

[
?
ln a day or two alr-bladdera r11l r1se, wh1ch le a sl.gn tbat Ferneat-
atlon has taken place; ln order to pronote lt stlll furtber eprl.akle

4 , of flnely poud.ered Loaf Sugar l.nto lt, and coatlnue tbat gentle
?
degree of warnthr that Fernentatlon requlree (f,ron 9O to IOO) and I,f

tblage 8o on properlyr lor rl11 see the oplun ]'1'fted up and d1eeolved
ln trts nlnutest atom6.

Be cautlous that you do not breathe the Eff1uvla Ol'TEE EXTERI{AL

,\
IIARC0TfCK
S! r rblch l's by th1.s natural operatlon aeparated. and snelle
verJr stroag, and 1s extreenly pernlclous to healthl

You rlll see the tnpure volatlle part ascend to the ltopr rb11st tbe
teFestrlal parts slnks dorm alrd renalns on the botton of the glase bod,5r:
At last tb.e pure part vftl renaln ln the nl.ddle !,n the forn o! a
beautlful Ruby-red Ll'quld, aad flneIy transparent. Thl.s transparent Ruby-
red. EsEeace you nust separate, after the Fernentatlon has subelded, rltb
great cautlon, and, you nust fllter lt; tben d5.stlll. the phl.egma fron
lt la baLneo vaporoao, until 1t renalns like honey.
Thie boaey Ilke thlck substance dlseolves l.a a genulne hl.ghl'y rect-
lfled Splrl't of l{iaer and dlgest lt la a most gent}e heat durlng oae
nonthr aad during thie Dlgestlon, lf tb,ere renalne etl.L1 aa3r cnrdl,ty
or $, l.t xrJ.lt be thorougbly eeparated.

Then distll about bal,f the S.V. from 1t' after havlng flltered tbe
Extract flrst through blottlng paper.

Tou have now Ln your possesslon atr Essence of Oplun inflnltely sup-
ertor to the LAUDA$UM
LIQIIIDUU SYDENEAMIfor to any other preparatton
 9

of oplunr whatsoever; as tn eyery otber preparatloa of tbe ehops, but

thls, the aarcotlc nofsoaous$ of tbe oplun le dtssol-ved and. renalns
ln tb.e nedlclne, for whlch Reason Bo naay ead, effects fol}oTevell after
the nost prud.ent use of ltr wbl'llet thls our truly phlloeophical Essence
and sweet lnternaf A of the optun ls perfectly safe aad, lunoclent,
and, of such vlrtue and power, that the t,/4 part of a graln or l/z a
gral-n at nost, gtvea 1n an approprlate vebl.cre, ls sufflclent for a
doee and, hae truly astonlshlag Effecte ln quletlag th,e Dleturbed oper-
ations of Nature ln tbe hunao Body, and ln procurlng a nost contortab}e
refreshlng aad revtvlng Rest. Such ae tahe the TroubLe of preparlng
tbls lEsqnPa.rable Essence of oplurn falthfully, a6 ye have bere ]'adl.cated.,
rr111 tEank ue, and ronder at our generoslty.

I nor 8o to speak of Trlturatton, aD operatloa dafrly rised by the

apothecarlee, but sucb an operatloa ie not wb,at se lutend bere; By our
TrlturatLon se have aee! the nost ronderful Effects, whl.ch uas perfor-
ned ln our Laboratory at EOISTEIII GOTltORPrlnthe presence of H1e Serene
f,i-ghness Prlace trbederic of glorlous lrenory, a Prlnce of unlversal kuor-
ledge aad, partlcular3,y versed ln chenlcar operatlone.
We have aeen by our, long contlnued. Trlturatlon the so hlghly flxt

C) r a body lnrrlnclbLe 1n the flre and ln tbe etrorrgeet nenstruura,

relent and yteld to thls motlon. lTe have ordered a Machtne to be made
for thls purpose, after ny own rnventlon, whlch we have named a phlle-

xlllI cauaed an accurate draught thereof, to be tnserted l-n

?opmcal '
thl-s Letter.
 to

Proc e€is.

Take fine O ro Leavee, cut snall- wlth sctssers, t y' or more, and
place lt ln your norter; Thls norter rnay be nade eLther of glassr ot
of steel, turned snooth. and pollsbed, or of flne @
such a oBe as our
"
august PRfNCEFREDERICOF EOLSTEII|GOTIORP,of blessed nenory bad nade,

before hts Deceaser by persuaslon of DR. BURREUS;although f an flrnly

persuad.edtbat a steel norter ls the best, as d l.e the best attractor"

and, Conductor of the ElectricafA , wblcb acts la tb1e trlturatlon ae
the nost unlvereal of all Dlesol-vente. Cover your norter wlth a C1r;
cuLar paper or pasteboard cap, to prevent any dust fron getttng l.uto
the norter and nl:rlng rltb the @ , d,ur!-ag the Trlturatl-on.
Tbe pestle nust be turned round nlgbt and day tn'th5.s Englne, by a
regular and unlforn notlon, aad the @ vlll becone a darh brorm alnost
bLachesb Calx. Thls ls effected ln 14 /f . But l.f you rould, only
operate ln day tlner 3ror w1il. aot do Lt ln a nonth. In the beginning,
we were satlsifled and pleased rtth thls operatlon, aad f put ny O gt
lnto a snall etaeslQ, and applled a Recei.ver ualuted. I buried. the
tn:il'. , and lncrease" ry A gradually, glvlng the strongest
@deep
A at th.e latter End, of the operatioa, and the Q falrly ascended.,
partly ln beautlful Red FIowerE, partly ln Ruby-red d,rops, vhi-ch can6
over lnto the Recelver.
rfle dlgested both wlth
tsed S.V. and obtalned a noet glorlous Ruby
$
red Solar Essence, tbe Flouere dlssolvlag ln the S.V. as uelL as the

Ruby drops. ff ever a genulne AURUMPOTABITExras prepared by aay

 ll

Cbenlcal artlst, thls certalnly waa one.

Th'ere renalned @ L\ We/A, whtch was whlte, we extracted tb1e

"
trltb s-rr- of (E , d,urlag a long Dlgestlon, and obtalned, agal.a, unexpect-

edJ-yr a fine red Tlncture.

An exceedlngLy snall quantityl whlch remaiued after thls Extractlon,

we reduced nlth borar l-n tbe V , and, obf,al-ned a snall Bead of O agaln.
f fouad, by thls that tbe Trlturation had not beea contl-nued loag enough,
ln ord.er to volatlllse tbe vhoJr-j of O and to rend.er j.t totally Lrred-
uclbLe. Rude and slnple aE thls operatlon ralght appear at flrst elght,
yet it Ls truly ronderful tn 1ts Effects, as by tb5.s cont1nual, notloa,

the unlversalA of nature le coastantly attracted out of the4, rblch

dissolves the @ I and all other netaLsl and reuders tUe @ voIatlle
and for the nost part irreduclble.

We nade afterwarde naay nore experlnents, rhlcb bave been lnserted

ln the Gottorp pbllosoph: Transactlons, and we contlnued tbe Trlturatlon

as long agaln as before, and our browu (U of Q t""""e at last A RUBY-
o?
REDOOJ-n the steel morter, rlthout any dlst1lIatlon at all.
We have used the GTASSand GOLDMORTER
but found tbe Effect slower,
as I suspected.

For the last Experlment, I shall nentl0n

+
The Genulne preparatlon o f t heu of o.
+

fhls U has been deened,by many Chenlcal Wrtters A I{O$-ENS and ln-
+
posslble i But no Authortty shall ever hlnder me to conqrrnlcate rhat f

have done nyse1f, and that more than once.

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The prtnclpal operallon conslste Ln the TrlturatLon. Beduce a

A 6 eltber^e per6e,o,
^U6 cf ;";;-;;;-";" d.- Talce
of euch
^{1ro d, 6, ad,dof the purest e or c.t"h:;-F;;" dry
z H, ,XEJ e aad,ulr these thrugs ln a stone or grase morter, a,
large porphtrp norter ls best, but not eaelly obtalaed,. Let !.t be uclxed
to a verJr frae d Eunect or lnblbe
- thla d** t of a healthy Ea!,
and then let the nolst ntxture be rubbed la a large stone aorter by
. tro lndustr{.ou' Denr vho rrru take palne, durrng a rhore day rtthout
rnternissloal sprlnklLng tbe maaa nor aad thea ylth more E, aa aoo,.
ae lt grows dry by rubbtng, ae 1t rnust be kept notet coastaatry.
Ilthen thle le donen put the- nlrture lnto a ralge green graes.bodr.,
and' pour as nuch [l r of a healthJr na!, upon tt so as to go a bande
breadeth over it, tben shut your bodyr aot perfectly.
tr.ght" and prace
tt 1n a gentle fernentlng warnth for a whole uoath, shakrn' rt oace a
day' rf durlng thle tlne the Llquor should evaporate partly; pour Dore
El upon lt, and, after thle dlgestlon ts accouplr.sbed,, take the nase
out and' nlr rt rlth aa equlr quaatlty of poudered grase and
vrve,
(of each EE, aad' then of the d,lgested $
maEEand. th]-e nes ad,dltioo EE)
thle nlxture you nuet forn 1nto. srnalr bulrets,
ur.e rnarblee or plstol
baller and, let then dry on boarde ln
tbe shade 1n a warl' roo'r
rbon these Bullets you shall extract
th'e antl.nonl"r U ln the follor-
lng nanner: t

You Bust now have an or cast fron Cucurblt nad,e wbich truat
ven be
d,ouble; tbe upper part nust flt nlcely
lnto the lowest.
The upper part, wtulcb takes offr must bave a coacave botton furl
 l,

of snall boLes; further you nust have a bllnd V"o. or lron aleoblc

fi-ttlnb nlcely over the upper Brtn of the body.

ln thls nann€ro

t"l th e
3I i n
"'rr
E.llcts
c.PP€r
p""trtG
-thr8.alJ
lg el
/ @ l:jli'
s.ttru *ith @girts @

ffi@
.*r hie l, FceltveJ
rhe S of 6.
Reccived
thc Bdtlrr.t .oith holes
.?l^c.rt

thfs Appqretcsis fo' d,rtitib! pc.F

d e s e€ r r r io ne t tAe
bg cohcqve tilG
c tre-tc [.

coltuchlelft
ll"

heF€.
!! .

"rrcr-t,

Proceas of Dlstll1atlon.

Etlt nor the upper part of your body urltb your draed. Balle up to

the brln, place the alenblc over 1t, urithout lut!'ngl or lute l.t but

ellghtly. .ToLn the upper body to the lover and lute theee Jolnta aLl

round Yl,th good tough Loan.

Wben thl.e 1ut1ng i-s thoroughly dry, nake a hole ln the grouad and

place the bod.y tbereln, so that the loser part nay be kept cool i'n the

V "" faras th e Jo l a ts, p ress thef,aU r oundr Bo aa to layclose

to the bodyr nor lay theV alL round the upper part, presslng 1t doral

and keep about half of the upper part above grouad aad press theV

smooth al]' round.

 r4

Place nou 4 brlcke round. !t, and 4 oa tbe Top of then, so ae to

foru a'tlttle furnace, rcund the upper part aud Cover of tbe bodyr 88
you do when you cenent on a Eeartb.

tet the upper part of the Brlcke be Ievel er a l-l'ttle above tbe

upper patt of th,e alenblc. Thue arranged., lay dead, coals al-I' rouad the

upper part of the bodyr unt1l you get allnost to tbe Top of the hunace,
tben lay llghted. Coala oa the Top, and the Coale belor rLll. taf,e A
graduaLLy; thus keep a moderate A tne flrst 11boure, after that shen
the body aad. alenblc get of a red. h.eatr yor nuet keep up a Ll.ve1yA

for 4 houre nore, excttlng tne A the last hour rlth a snall pal,r ot

d,oubLe bel,lows. fben let the A dJ.e aray graduallyr and do not renoye
the nessel uatll the next day rhen you are Eure tbat they are cold.
!. ^*.
Opea thea your Vessels and you rlLl flnd the runn1"6 of (J coll-
9
ected. ln the lower part of, the body; f f,orgot to mentloae tbat you must

pour about half a plnt of CoId. V foto the loreu part of the Vessel,

rtlmon{ al 6 force l.t

+ "oe
through Cbanol teather.

ElnLs ,- J. Langelottus.
 Atrreoll Theophrastl Paracelst

Archldoxorun seu de Secretls l{aturae ttbrl

d,ec€Drttem Manualta duo etc. Ba\rtlea

M.D.L. )00(rr.

A uonderful scarce book sal.d to contaln several genulne partlcular

Labours and lllnctures for Meta1s. !{y Copy wants above W pages and I.e
extrenely defl'cl-t.

A sh.ort process in Gernan ver8e, wrlttea by Paracelsue 1n bl,e orn

uacouth. Snl.ee Laagua8e; page 236 Ln ny book. p. FayE he has doae thle

natry tinee. r d.o not f,uIly coEprehend 1t, yet l't proceeds on a true
found,atl.on.

Irll. gtve you a Lltteral Traaslation of lt.

A Tlnetute you shalL nake aa one nakes o11 of vl'tr!.ol., by neane of,
A GEMITEUEAT. (he neans durlng the digesti_on. )

Take of the haa6ed Thlef (Mercury) oNg PAIilI. Prepare h1m over a
gentle A , untll he becones Snor-wbite.
(he mean,sthat you sharl- subune your whtcb appears fron the
f
Expresslonor the uANGED
rErEF ( q ) ;rI.:- you are to take of a
good, Snow-Whitedsr- | part, )
,S,
ELne J/ 1o subtlL f1llngs arso I part. And z parte of the hleh
flylng Eagle (Sat anrnonlac purlfled fron tts blact f, r by subllnattou)
(note here that ln Paraceleus bl.s Tlne, the Q)( rae lmported. ].nto ger-
naDy by the Eol,Laadere fron Arnenla and Arabla, and was verJr b].ack and
 2

lnpure, so that they were obllged, to purlfy thetr crudeeff r by subrln-

iug lt fron sea Q ; sucb a purlfletl OX was stlll connon, arthough
pure er( , therefore se nust not take our sub}l'ned or volatlle
eX ln
the roon of the conmoDr aa co'non ls neant here and no other.
Fflx these fngredlents : ( rriz. | part, ftted
+^- ftne ) f part
a!rd. clean comBon ex 2 Parts. )

Put lt lnto a! , rute a cover on it, and rbea dry put 1n 1a a

villd furnace, cover lt wlth coars, and let it nelt rell, forlov ny ad,-
vtse, eays P.

Thea pour.it out and let lt coor 1n tbe heated, cone; rhen 1t ts cold,
beat 1t to powder; squeeze tbe poud,er through a
strong cloth, and. look
for THE LrvrNG TEIEF (tae rev:tvLf1"a ) aad take care of h{n.
Q
what renaiae l-n the croth, copel by or rltb. Lead, to.recover aome
of your o
)

Conposition.

Now take I part oF TEE turnrs and I part of the Thlef,

[, whlch
you aqueezed.through th,e Clothr(and shlcb ls an pntnated
)
put these 2 i? into "oo",6 {:
a d,i8estlng glass, whlch ebut close, aad place the
6laes Ln a gentle heat, and it rrtlr be d.lssoLved.lnto a \Z . rf you
percelve th1.e you are rlght.

contlaue your gentle dlgestlon, the glass kept closery sbut, unttl
thep 1s drted.up into a Whlte pouder or caLx rtke trne
).
 5

Multlpllcation.

DlssoLve thle ln the cold (placlng tbe opened glase I.n cold! ;
or open lt and Let lt dlssolve by attractlng the huni.dl.ty of theA,
eo that lt becones V agaln, but d.o not tat<e tne $out of the glase;
I knor P. nea&E tb1e, fron otber processes).

Coagulate thl.s agala by gentle heat, the glase shut agal.n; and' 1s-
peat thls operatlon at least J ttnes, uatll lt flors rrithout furnlng;
aad, you rl-11 bave a powder (a Tlncture) belleve ne, shJ-ch traasnutes
ROGIIESAIfD PIOUS lnto ffne ) r 8.d 1t doeE J-t fu a large quantlty.
(rle plous are the mercurlal uetals, sucb. ,+ , 6, , tbe
"" q
rogues are the refractory netals rho have but littre , sucb
Ii ". I
anajt ).
Tbe TETEF|
Sv ls the Solvent upon TgE RUNryIrsc
ANIMAfED
tuNAR p ;
he certalnly neaas a [r"r V , but wbat sort of one r canaot terr,
Butrun of 6 ts arso \7 or sophi" q stuaprex,so is the rrlhlte
"-Plar
o11 of TUSTANUSand TEE RED OIL nuch more, a6 a double anl.nated Sophlc

Pe x 6 .
r give you tbls to show you b.or eaeiry a tlncture lnay be nade rith
the rlght prlnclple and rlght Solveast
(rf we courd find out TErs rErEFs V, thls proceaa should be one
of nay flrst works; he says ln anotber prace, that 1t ie done ln 6 reek8

tlne aad ls no Trouble.

ConeuLt R. BOYTEln hLs CORPUSCULAR

PEIIOSOPEYrhere be speake of
cornea sn6lrl-; an ExperlneBt he once nade. )
)
Itthosoever possessee the knorLedge to tlnge the sophlc p *rtn O o"

) , rrl-ll obtaln the great Arcanuno

Flnis.
 TI{E
TtnctuRe
of
fi.Iy Fg,rni,\yY

P AR A C E L SU S
T R A NS L A T E D B Y :

b.TB g q,gQtB@jry{,fiI .D .

P ROD U C E D B Y :
BA&Tg
MuLUlpucatLon .. . 20

Multipll,catloE lD. qualtlty 20

Rena.rk€ by Dr. Bacstron 2l

 i"rEl,toRAlIDn.r.

The followlng tleatlslwas published 1tr an o1d cernan collectlon

fo u.d tba t 1t bad beea pub l i s b e d ilr Etrgl1sh a6 the work of Fr .

R og er Ba co n. If he be

cop y [a y in s one plac es be colsidered as a connentary, e x p l a 1 n fu g

son e th l.ng s nor e f ul, ly t ban tbe E!6l1sb Editlon, Doctor B a cstr o n r s

t raEgla tion 1s pr es er v ed alont witb the latter, onitting only

one or tlo 1t r y bj- c h tbe copies are tbe 6aee al"Eoat ve r b a tu !.

llac es

JltI! 17 97 .
 to N, s frlend Theodore.

Dea ! Theodor e;

W lt b gr eat t r ut h tbe I'Est

ancient Spagyrlsts have said

!n
.|-
$ lo
quic quld quaer unt sapientes!rt but they have not to l d

us wh at kl - nd. of $ t bey ne a a t . Altbough f dare not nentlon openly

+
wh at the y lnt ended, let it suffice that, fron ocular d e B o n str a t-

!o ns. I ao c onv j- nc ed. t hey lntended such S I trea! of in

" f ""

th e follo wj-ng wor k . That rlth tLis tincture or of E f

$
+ "u ""a

8outy, na d, I epr ous , apoplec t i c , dropsicaL and epileptical people,

and such a6 wer e af f lec t ed with veneral and pestilentlaL e p i .d e n j .c

T r a asylvan ia, I iuDgar y and other places will bear Ee 't r i t n e s G , and

of of $, c an s ay , wj-th great truth, that whatever yo u

+
$
"oO
j- t in
wish to o b ta i n ia e e d l .cl n e or Alcheny, you nay fitr d th16

6 , fo r it is th e speclfr ea ot the Pbilosopher s, w her e-

Y "t $
wl t b f b . ave d o n e e ve ryth i n 8 nyseLf that I an about to cono u[i c ate

tre asure s and s ec r at s in nedj-cine and Alcheny whlch royal

-
ny en en ies. Tb. ey s ay t ha t 1t ls a Lanon or erril spirit r vh e l e b y

ap ostles of G alen t bey propagate {b a t be learnt flon Sata th e

lyL nt sp ir lt . I adnlt th a t that is a spl.ril or a aplrltual ned-

lcin e, but not a deEon - Tbey tbenselves atd other learred neB

calr a s pt lit .
$
.l-

Bu t y ou, ny dear es t Theodore! Accept of ne thi6 t r e a su r e

aa d se cre t r - it h a J oy f ul ni.Dd and 6ood co[science. Do tb e r € w l th

STIBIU M , ac c or dlt r g to the Pb.1lo6ophers, is coEposed of a

no ble nln er al A ana U . Tbey have calted lt TEI SECRET BL AC K

' Ff

ba ve ca lled tt AI ABASTI R a ! 'd SARBASON. In Spain lt vas fo r u e r l y

Av lc eana nanea it ALTEIIED, Ch. VII - he te a cb e s

o ug bt to be c alled Sp1e6- g l a a t z (English Sarcellated-G1ltter)

p latlo a of bigh- m y gt er ies 1f ye conaider the tiDe !n w h l .cb tb e

E1 lera l ( I f" appr opr la t e d to the constell-atj.on of Ar 1 e s,

6

ba th his Ex alt at lon. Th o u g h tb16 clrcuEstance i6 overlooked by

ao st ne n., y et t h. a lnt elllgent kDow aBd belieye that l 'n th .a t ve r y

si6 ! tb e gr eat eat Ey s t er ies ought to be conteEplated and p u r su e d .

Ma a)r of t b, e lgaor ant th.ink that lf tbey bave but 6 ,n ",

e an do e v er y t hilg by e: ( t r a c t i o ! , calcl-rlation or subllBatioBi

oth .er6 by r ev er ber at loa ?reteDd to core at the great B y ate r l e s

no r revelb er at loD you obtall l"oo sbat can exalt n e ta l s

' d- ] 1 $

Be t r ot 1ed lat o er r or by sucb Pbllogophers as have ta u g h t

so ph lstical wor k s on pur p o s e to decel-vei such aa Geber, Al b e r tu s

Ma8 D'ue , Rhas l' s , Ar l- s t ot le, Rupeselsea and others,

g lass of lt , y ou r l11 ge t rl.d of tbe bad arsenlcal volatlte $,

f

ard tb at aa o1l pr epar ed out of euch a glass wl.II be a fl xe d ooo

an d a truly llgr es s lv e nediclle for perfecting Eetals. Th e

l. s fa lse . I t ell y ou wl' t b sitrcelj-ty and truth tbat if you l o se

tbe ab ove ner t iolt ed v oLat t le aurfng your preparatioD fo r

-
$

a sna ll A nay eas ily des t r oy it you lose also the true !e n e -
-

tra tlng vo lat lt e ac 5. d , wbich nust penetrate tUa body ot E

- n-

and tu rn the uhole body lnt o Ooo, that it nay ascend v o L a ttl e
"o

and pa ss tb, ! u t b, e alenblc sith a deligbtful sne11 and no6t gl-orious

colou rs.

Krov th er ef or e t hat t he whole body of 6 wi,th its E e a b er s

exc sp ted , 1s to bec one our glorious c 'g g . It l.s io cone over

as alt not e lt ! How 1s j.t posslble tbat thj-s r j 'n e r a l body

CtoO -

ca! b ecoo e a pleaoant ff you carry j.t to 1ts last d e g r ee

fO , -

Yo u are to not e t hat al l creatures at their 1a6t changer and

afte r th e f inal J udges ent , will be exaLted into tbe clearness of

pre clo us at ones , ac c or dj, ng to the trelve tribes of Islael ard

Yo u [u s t als o k r ow t bat you wlU by [o treanE obtaln our noble

per fect oj.1 lf y ou bar ely extract fron E with dlstiued v l .n e ta ! -

 8

appear yet the v/ay 1s wrong - You nay indeed obtaj-n an OoObut

Ile will therefore g:ive yo u

fine pure Linera of $ , v n i c ir

i6 fou nd 1D Eut r gar y aad Tr a n s i l v a n j - a - aboundl-ng nost in ti n ctu r e .

Re d.u ce it to a s ubt ll 6 ,o iron norter, and dissolve

"o

it in ou r \B , not aLl at orce, but graduaLly, by sna1l qu a n ti te s,

in ord er t hat . t he di66olve it the better. As soon as

f f i,
"uy

tb e solu ll-on 1s nade t ak e lt out, that the \Zf nay not, by re-

naiEj-n t to o long uiih t he d.j.ssol-ved. 6 , Uo it an 1trjury, fo r

i-t d issolves t he Tlnc t ur e of 6 v"ry speed.ily. Our sate! i6 Lx

Our V would consune and destroy

ao" 6 a nd y ould r educ e the ao , slick, o! soft yel].ow n u d ..

, $

Take an ex aaple of r which is dlssolved into a clear and

)

bea utifu t s olut lon la lF. If you let tbe solution stand a

nig ht or l olger , wbile t he futt of lj.fe and spirl!, yo u r

\Fts
 9

good ) w ll -1 b e so co n p l e tely cor r oded as to be lo€t in our \ts ;

Iike h or!. or aa bor s es hoof , reduceable into uy no art vb a t-

)

soever. ( Dr . B. s ay s actuaLly happeBed to ne once, and I

' r Tbi6

I ost a bo ve one ha. Lf of ay Therefore renenber tbat l-nned-

).")

iate ly afte r y or r 6 16 d] .s s o l v e d you nust lveakea lhe solution

w i.th a gre at quant it y of , and precipitate tne 6 accordLng

V

clea n wate rs t hat none of the corrodlng spirj,t6 of the \pmay

 The O when 1n fusion fulnlnates i v ltb th e

rlll g iv e y ou ev er y c au t l c a , ald all the varlous nethods to be

folL oryed 1n s uc h a dat r ge l o u s process. S.8."

Eow to pr oc eed after dissolvlng tUe 6

 l 'l

statrd the r ein 40 day s and d-ghts; during this tj.re the liquor

Exan j.Be y our €las s at the end of thi-s tlne, to see wh e th e r

co rk lt. 0D t he r eEalEl. nt natter pour fresh distiLled vlnegar,

an d d i-ge st as bs f or e, i! order to extract al1 the good tl n ctu r e

ou t of the f oec es l 1et it stand agaiB j 't Bay th e nore

40 /fttut

flo w pour c lean d1s t llled rain upon the natter and 6 b a ke
!
 wben they had prepared our 6 in t l r ls Ea n a e r i

be co Ee an O oO , whic h Lay b.Id.d,en ln lts lnward center; till well

pre pa red ;

Lh e A it would as c eld llk e a vapou a!!d nothj.ne reoal.n; belag

fUfs &16 k!.om only to the ,rtset

Alter y ou hav e r ubj. f led ,oor 6 ln the Ba:rner I bave d j .r e cl e d ,

you nu st hav e at hald s one good and genul,ne, hlghly rectifled

Sp lrit of W ine. ( ! ot s pillt of nalt) and pour soEe of it on th i s

 t)

t"a 3 or 6 , a s to cover it and star d above ]- t 2 finger s

"o
breadth, j -n a h l .g h g l a ss digesting body, aad shut it close .

frotr th e f ew f oec es iDt o a clean glass, and if there renaj.ns any

tb.e na tter wj. ll giv e no no r e tincture,

on yo ur body , and jola a receiver.

t he b atb uus t only ev apor at e slowly, or !f lt bolls let it be

on ly g en tl.y ; aad j- ! t bl. e nanaer diEtil the S.V. fron your su b j e ct,

rot q ui-te to dr y nes 6. You r body nust not be too hl.gh.

 t4

lecelver, unlt ed wlt h a bloo d - r e d OOO, *b i " h la tb.e opeled b o d ,y

o r6.

6 . Thls ls th e b re g se d OS"t 6 , and i6 a r oble altd po y er fuf

OB ot delLgbtful 6neLl. contllue your dlstlllatlon tlll all

"
tle O% ue coEe ove! alolg ,rl'tb. the s.v.

A partlcular work rlth the 011 of 5 anO catx ot { .

crease you r beat gladually after tbat tLne; and after +d 2 e t v e

the L hi.rd degr ee of heat , lncreaslttg traduaLly; alld let lt sta l d

t d 2. Thls degr ee la 60 hot that you caBnot bear to touch tb e

t rlot; bu t lt Dus t lot bec oBe 6 1 o r '1 n g hot yet. After tbat 6 i ve

led b ea l a Dd glow, and lD tbl.s degree 1et tt statrd , day6 an d

n !6h ts. Thea lel t he A, die out.

rlU fl-nd a 6reat part of tn" ( ftxed 1!,lo f1!e O by the tlnging

poser of our Og. Thus have you wherewlth to elaborate you

vork.

( C e ne a ta tl o n ls d o n e r lth a cbalcoal A on a hear th, betw een

u d,, by s ev er al c ohobat ions to dlstlll lhe OoO alont sitb 1t by

fron the & .

Pu t yo u r &

th e b od y ov e! a v apour ous bath and dlstill with a ge[tIe beat

u atl1 a ll t he S. V. ls c ou e over clear Uke V. Towards th e end

of tb e dl. s t ! 1lat l- o! , v hen you see red d!op6 be6in to asceud lt ls

a sitr lhat t be & begins to cone. PuL your fl.re out suddenly
tb e hu Ea! body , f ull of Life and volatile tlnctule from th e & ,

n or by lts elf , s epar at ed fron the S.V. the blessed blood-red

O% of 6 pour 1! v er y carefu].].y into a 6lass bottle, vl th a

-

sto pper . 0bs er v 6 to keep j,t clean, that no inpurities [a y

Sla ss

g et lato lt .

tb e hld de B pr inc lple of Ugbt and lj-fe ls nolv nade nanlfest, and

sh ires for t h t hr ough t be ope! volatj.ll.zed body, as a Ligbted

cad le sh lnes t blough t be gl-ass of the lantern; in tbe s an e nanuer

a6 ou r lnv is ible lm or t al DritciDle rfll be nanifested in a re-

tiDcture of t le O% , and fu]-l of lj.tbt and power itr healj.lg d 1 s-

e ases of t be hunan body , and tb.e glorious bleased heavenly O%

Th is bles s ed hea"enly O$ can conquer all iaflrn!.ties of tb e

S. V . for tbe cu re of va ri o u s dlseases: the sane as ln tbe p r i nted

c o l) y p a g e 1 7 1 a a d 1 7 5 .)

Eo r to p ro ce e d wi th th e Oil of 6 for the tr ue Tlnctur e.

aB d d ay. Tben dl. s t 1l ln BaI n e u E Vapori-s the S.V. frotr the of

V

@ so o ften , pour lng bac k the sane S.V. and a d d j 'n g aow and th e n

sone ftesh s pir it s , unt i- l- your renaj.ns bebl.nd iE the b o t t on

Q
 It c annot b6 d1€6olve d 1n s.v. unless prevlou6ly hi € h L y
O

su bt1 11 6e d, ope! . ed aad nade fuslble. Thi6 ca! be effected r l th

a pa rtlcu la! dulc lf ledjLof sea Q , taught lD TUGELS UN M R SAI

CHEIfISTRY, aDd 1! ABBEr R O S S S E A U 'S l l 'O R K S : the @ then b e co n e a

-

ao fu sib le, t hat iU d168o 1 v e s in V as well as 1a S.V. Vrhen tb u g

so ph era ; but t r ot t be Slon e of the Pbl.losopb.ers, nor tbelr u r L ve r sa L

ne dlclne . rt)

Ta ke one lar t of y ou! h16hty opened volatiffs"O @ 6 , and

two p arts of t he bles s ea &ol 6. Drop tbe &gradually ou tb e

O unt 1l t he lr hole quntlty has penetrated into th e @ 6

V '

Put tbe nas 6 1n a s nall 6Ia66 gfobe, yet blg eEou6b to aL l o s

tbre e !a ! t s out of f our to reEaLD enpty. SeaI the globe t1 6 h t;

pu t l.t l. D a diges t llg 6t o v e , lD. the flrst and nost geutle deglee

of b .ea t, about !0 or 100 degrees. let it statrd ia Uhl-s degree

ten da ys lDc r eas e y ou! beat to the second deglee, gradually, fr o n

10 0 to 1 50 degr ees or 15 0 degrees a!.d let it staBd tn th i s

-

After these rc Jzfi wlll begln to Look red., yhlch proceede froo

the $ ta l p rtn ctp l e contalaed 1n our blessed 8. By a c on-

t
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th e pr loc iple, wlt b its own central red col,our; t h er e fo r e

Uiaf
f
afle r 20 day s and r ight s dlgestlon 1n the lst and 2nd d e g le e ;

a6 dlre cte d abov e, it wlll be necessary to adninister the Jr d

de gre e of beat , inc r eas lag gradually from 150 to 210 or 22 0 degrees

rI11 a p p ea r o u t[a l d s b y tbe power of our blessed & asslsted by

heat. q oE th u e th l .s ,rd degr ee also l0 days and Lighte, r l tbout

gra du ally r ed llk e r ed a '- d . cinabar.

Q

4 th de gre e of beet r lt r c r eas i n g gradually froE tbe forEer to th j .6

4 tb a nd las t degr ee. Keep your gla6s l-! tbl.s degree llkerise

lO Jfu a6 1, y our El. x t ur e begins to nelt; and keep it thus fu sl n g

te DtLy a nd ft v 1U bec ooe perfectly flxed aBd of a deep ru b y

re d co lou r.

No u tak e j- t out and le t 1t cool. you wl-Ll flnd a fused deep

re d tran sp ar eal glas s y s ub s t a l c e , of ttre shape of lbe b o t t on of

(This is not fo r

tbe huan b o d y.) Wl th this you nay nake pr ojectlon !po\ or

6

V . Pral-se God for tbl.s great b1esslng a!.d, do not forget to be

f
 1U

l,lu1t1pl1cation.

Fo rne r Phl- los opher s after hav1u6 discovered aad e L ab o l a l e d

flxatlo a of t be lEper f ec t netals lnto @ ana ) , took n u ch

pa lns to f lnd out a r 0et b o d to Lncrease the rrirtue of 1 t, ald

lb ey fo uDd t wo way s of nulliplicalion, ore in pose! and vl r tu e ,

vb .ere by t be Eedl. c lne i6 exalted so as to tinge a nuch g r e a te r

for by t bl' s nult ipllc at t oa the Bedi.cina is not lncreased ilr power.

M ult Lpllc a t l o B iD quantlty.

tha ! be fore .

Laus Deo osnlpotente!

Ai.!Er'l!

Re nar k s on t b, e f or e g o l n g f,ork by D!. Bacstrom.

the (vb lcb ls t be 6t ot t e) asaj.sted by heat, w11l- f1r both th e
O

Ooo aa d the v lt r eous s t ot r e, which it befole vo1atj.lj.sed; and

rher€ 1t t1D6ed at f lr s t 10 parts lt should noE tlDge 100.11

rrlt a lso look s to ne as Lf the of coufa be flxed PER

O% d

SE rltho ut t he addlt loa of at all, by a beat lBcreasad gr a d -

O

uaUy tllL t he Dat t er v ould nelt on a hot plate of wftlout

]

If that vere accoEpllsbed lt nlght be

acco uBt of t he f u8lblu. t y a-Dd penetratlag quauty of tbe 9$ l t8 e l f.

iile ba ve b lat s of t hl. s k l' nd 1tr Tugel aBd other good autbors.rl

D. D.
AN AN ONY MO U SLE TTE R

to

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TH E

LAPIS PHILOSOPHORU

TRANSLATED BY:

b .78g q,b q,R@Nl, fir.7B-

A 1e7T&&ffiffi PRoDUcTIoN
 Copy of an Anonyjnous Letter to i"h. Ford. on

the Lapi s Ptrilo sophorun.

Si r ;

Being lnforned that you are a deservi.ng brother in the

study of Alcheny, and ae such only r address you; and harring

r e a so n to suppose that you h a v e n o t a t t a in e d t o p e rf e c t lo n , in

o r d e r to nake your studies e a s y t o y o u rs e lf , a n d t ru s t in g lt , rill

b e fo r the beaefit of others a ls o d e s e rv in g , r s e n d . y o u t h is in -

fornatlon' Alcheray appears to ce as a study in so single a poj-nt
of view that lt strikes rvitb, astoei.sh-neat tbat any person acquai-nted
w l th i,l athenatlcal philoeophy s h o u ld n o t j. n s t a n t ly d ls c o v e r it ,
fo r l a tbe study of Mathena t ic s , b e f o re y o u c a n g lv e a s o ru t io n
or aaswer to any question proposed you nust bring your numbers
to the same denonlaation.
-{_
r n Archeny ttis the sane , y o u ra u s t f irs t ma k e a b u t t e r
"t Q
fr o n th e *y regulus in t,h e u s u a r wa y l t h e n n ra k e a lu n a c o rn e a ,
t
A.
o r b u tte r of aad dlges t t b e n b o t h rv it h a n e q u a l rv e ig h t o f
_.),
nereury subl1-mate.

Tbls 'riIl glve you a t1n61ng power as to si.lver and inable

you to proslcute your studle s f u rt h e r, wit h c o n f o rt t o y o u r s e lf
anid asslstance to your friend s .

Belag unknown the only request r have to nake is secrecy ln

th e buslness, aad perhaps at sone future period r nay not only
 2

glve you a further frlead,ly hlnt but inforn you of a study as

nucb supertor to Alcbeny as t tls posslble for the bunan nlnd
to coneetve.

T111 then and for ever rlshlng you health, peace and happtness
f rematn

Philadelphla.
 i'lernoraadumrespec ting the preparation o f the Sophic fron

,/t/Ee^*d
L .
Mr. Ford.takes equil parts or the /// 6 { and distils
^naY-
over a butter in the usual manrer. A part of the tll/ re^arns
behind with the revived V ; to this he adds a fresh portion
of
uf
.fn- and distils again.

Ilavlng thus obtalned what butter the oubJect 'rilr yelld, he

pours back the butter upon its cvn f)aaa d,j.stlrs agaln; and thls
\v
b e r e p e ats ti l 1 a o th l n g l s 1eft but a little whltev.
He renarked that on one occasion, bej-ng anxious to obtain a1l
the revlr"o p he courd., after re had separated what he could,
,^\ |
f r o n t h e (Jo " p u t th e b u tter into dlstilr ed. To b1s
^iQand
s u r p r i z e l i tt1 e or no $ over ; but a por tion of it seened
t " " r"
to have beea fixed and he obtalned a yellovl"ish white uetal whlch
w as no t acted upon Uy
\/.
 THE PRO C E S S OF

THE

A{a€rueAn
A7€?7
O BT AINING TH E TIN C TU R E

f r om

TRANSLATED BY:

b.T{gq,gw,a@
fiI , fiI.fu.

PRO D U CED BY:

&&ffis
 The P ro c e s s o f

The Anerican A,dept.

fn Gernan

PROCESS

for obtaining

THE TTilCTURE

FROM El o

Comnunicated by

A Clergynan in Anerica

to

MR. LEITTZ.

Contains also an extract frcn Greyllngs

Vlndicatlon o f AIc heny, relating to the

work of Eermaa Brown.

 2

MEMORANDUIUI.

The following process was connrunicated to Dr. Sigisnund Bac-

strou by Mr. Lintz, an lntinate friead of his, and a naa of ver-
aclty and lntegrity. Ee dled in tondon ln the year lzg4 and
Dr. B. bas copJ.es of all h1s aanuscripts.

Mr. Llatz wac well versed in Eerneti.c chenlstry. Ee had.'

llved ten or twelve years at ller york in North Anerlca wbere he

net rrith two posseasors of the philosophic Tiacture. one of

tben, a Gernan Protestant clergyran, b,ad tso dj.fferent rinctures
for Metals, which he inforned bin rere nade, the one fron {,
+
tbe otber fron Manrs trl .
The process rlth {, Mr. Li.ntz did not obtaln frora hin, harrlng
+
neglected differeat opportualtles that were glven to hin to write
lt out; but the process wlth El tbe clergyraan dlctated to hln
one day 1n Gernan. Fron a traaslation of it into Engrlsh by Dr,
Bacstron was nade the following copy, to which are added severaL
renarks by the Do,ctor.

toadon

JuIy 1 797.
 t

P ro ce ss w1th tr o

Take the natter whlcb you kaowr Xou know also wbere it can

be got; but that of the mornlag dew and from a young nlae ls

b e st.

Co llect as nucb as you p le a s e , a n d le t it s t a n d q u le t seven

or fourteen daye, according as you i.ntend to work.

Ke e p it ln a dark place; e v e n wh ile y o u a re c o lle c t ln g lt ,

where tbe sun cannot but where the troon and stars nay shine upon

it.

Tl hen !t has stood qulet 7 o r ll1 d a y s , a n d b e g in s t o c o lle c t

at the top an Oil of a 6old e a c o lo u r, o r e v e n o f a d e e p e r t ln g e ,

then it is tine to seperate carefully, yi.th a glass or chiaa

sp o o n , the deep coloured o11 f lo a t in g at the top.

Contlnue to take off thl.s 011 fron tine to tine as it collects

and as long as lt renalas transparent.

In danp and rainy weather this 0i1 generally becomes, in

se ve n days, of a blood-red c o lo u r.

As sooa as you have collected two pouads or two quarts of

this Red 0i1 separate the Earth fron the Yfater.

Dry tbe V ia tbe shade, uaite the drledv wlth the red ooo.

Se t 1t well closed 1n lts pro p e r p la c e , a n d le t lt b rin g f o rt h

its fruit. The longer it stands the better and nore flxed lt

w111 be.
 4

Tbe best ti.me to begtn this work is in spring or 1n Auturnn.

Viz. l n Marchn A pril or Ma y , o r in O c t o b e r o r No v e mb e r.

If you have a mind to c o lle c t a g o o d q u a n t it y o f t h e re d o ? " ,

an d l f you viIl let it stan d in it s p ro p e r p la c e , o r a s u f f lc ie a t

length of tlner Xoo $rl1l then obtain a true aad genuine PARADfSICAL

$Z, equ1l to tbe finest @ in philosophJ.cal laboure.

Th j.s Y , elther from t h e f lrs t o r a e c o n d p ro c e s s , d rle d ln

the shade, and, during that tiue carefully preserved fron dust,

is afterwards, that i-s when dry, to be exposed to the open air,

in a northerly aspect, tbat the Moon anC Stars, but not the Sun,

nay shine upon 1t. Be careful that neitber Dew nor Dust nor

Rai-n come to lt aad take care tbat the Sun do not shine upon

i t, Tbe longer lt stands, the better it w1 1 1 b e .

Tbis nagnetical $ ls to be iablbed, with lts own Red ooo -

or the whole quantity of its own red. ooo nay be poured, upon it

at snce. Tben put it ln a g la s s g lo b e rv e ll lu t e d , s e t 1 t ln it s

proper place in a geatle aainal warnth, like that of nan, that it

nay produce flowers and frult.

0 r P ro c e e d t h u s .

Take the red oooand, put lt in a gtass and dlst1l i-t over
/@,
I-nto a recelver. Pour back what cones over Lnto tlaeD agala
t
aad. dlstj.l as before. Repeat this, using only a geatle heat,

untll ft xri11 colne over nolonger, and all is becone a flxed fuslble
substance renainirg 1n n" which ought to be tabulated.
1fr,

0r Thus:

Take our Paradls5.cal Y - put 1t in a proper glass vessel -

lnblbe it with Paradlse V o" d (tne rea tr" I lute the glase,

and place it ln a gentle warnth ( to dry) - Repeat thls so oftea

uatil the Y has drunk up a1l its owa red &.

Pro j e c t i o n .

Tbe projectlon ls 1 part to 2 parts, and thea of the brj-ttle

lnass oue part on ten parts.

The End.
 REI.{ARKS

On the foregoing p ro c e s s ; b y Dr, B a c s t ro n .

believe that in the floating red, o% t we have the animal

+-
natural
IJhen the subject

fernentati.on, there
will yeild

renains
no nore o f t h is

a pale c oloure d Iiquidn

red. o% by this

whlch

the C l urgynan calls the wa t e r; c c n s e q u e n t ly thi s is a nlddle

substanc e be twe en the floating o% and an I/ , which of

$teous
t
cou r a e will settle at the bo t t o n of the V.

lVhea he speaks o f a nethod by repeat ed dl stillatlons til1

the red, Ooobecone fixed it looks as i f he d1d no t then nnake use

of the earth, but o f the oo" only.

Mf. Lentz lnforned ne that he had seetr tb,e Clergynan trausnute

aad flx both ! and f, ,rtro fiae O ly thJ-s nedlclne, and also
-t
by the oae nade fron natlve , whlch the author called conroon
$
.A.^f
because all sold, and. used. ia Anerica is natlve; or was
-r ,
A {
T-
at tbe tlme Mr. Ler-lz llved at New York. He was also told by

bi-s frlead., that tbe { was overpowered and. fixed into a Tiacture
f
b y O.
Ia the year l78O Mr. Lentz told ue tbat he had collected the

nornlng El of hls son Frederlc, thea about 15 years of age, and.

that he had evaporated lt over a bath untj.l oaly one th:Lrd part

reualned, rhlch he thea poured lnto hlgh wlde nouthed glaeses

a n d e o vered up. The [l co] L e c t e d a s k in o r f iln at the top, of

various colours, and was cha n g e d in t o a blood-red oily liquor o

He took this o ff and lt wa s s u c c e e d e d by another filn which forned

itself j.nto the sane re(l',o oo .

Whlle he went o& wlth o

th e p ro c e 6 s o f collectlng tbe red oo,

the paradisical settling

V t
at tbe botton of the glaes.
"pt
Ee added - rrThe of and the V iacrease dally. ff you unlte the

floatlng red & rtth the pale Llquor under it by agltatlou, the

& ascends agala la an iastant and floats at the top.tt

He also sald that 1f the abundaat phlegn be not prerriously evap-

orated, the red otw1ll not appear; but whether he had been told

so by hi.e frlend who gave hI.n the secret, or whether be found

1t so by erperlence, he d1d not lnfom me.

the folloriag quotatlou fron a gerran work, Professor Grey-

l i ng r s V lndication of A lchen y . P ria t e d a t T u b ln g e n , l7 3 Q t 8 v o ,

page 137t relates to a process that see!06 to have been wrougbt

rith the same subject, and therefore aay be considered as a kind

of conflrmatlon of the . foregoing.

trln the year lTOl tbere lived at Fraakfort on the Mayne, a

Journeynaa Apothecary aaned Godrin Serman Brown, a natlve of

Osaaburgh Ln Westphallan who possed a transnutlng Tlncture.

A prlnci-ple lngredlent ln thls Tlncture was Phosphorus. This

lca&, 4t fsankfort, at Mr. Saltawedels, an Apotbecary at the sign

of the swarr, in presence of Dr. Eberbard and eeveral gentlenen

of distinction transauted a b a ll o f le a d , we ig h in g 1 o u a c e , wit h

hJ.s unedlcine lnto good flne goId. (page 139) Tbat projections

and transnrutations were nade at Frankfort on the Mayn, about

l5 ye a rs agor at the A poth e c a ry t s Mr. S a lt z we id e lrs r ls t o o we ll

kaowa to be questloned.. It vas done w'j.th a deep red coloured ooo ,

and. the projectlon was always aade o" ( or on V . But that

1'
thls red flxed g ooo was nade out of Ph.osphorus, nany that saw

those projectlons were entlrely lgnorant of.

I have snelled and tasted it: it snelled like burnt phosphorus,

and tasted I1ke baleon Capuivoe, but nore pleasant.

.4, jourceyna! Apothecary, one Adams, inherited this Tlncture

and process, and worked nucb 1n pbospborus; atd the nanuscrlpts

of the ori-glnal possessor, Mr. Godrle Eerman, wrlttea during luls

younger yearsr treated chiefly of the uaklng and use of Phosphorus.

f have nyself seen and nade proJectlon w'ith 4 drops of thls oil

upon I d.rachn of V vlv, at Muaster in ltlestphalia. I bought

-r
ncyse lf, previously, to prev e a t a ll d o u b t s o r d e c e p t io n s , the

Crucible, the U , a Ilttle wax and sone borax. The possessor

t
handed, to me 11 drops of his Tlncture, pouring then on !0y 'f,ax,

whlch f then rolled up lnto a little ball and threw it iuto the

cruclble upon the U . A nan was ordered to blow the flre w'ltb
f
a palr of bellors, and 1n a quarter of an hour we poured it out

and fouad the most glori.ous gold to tbe quantlty of one Ducat.rf

FI$r S.
 TH E WORK

WITH

7n0 bF R fi.In
by

A VENE T I A N NOB L EMA N

T R A N S L A T E D B Y:

b.Bg@sctB@ju,fil.D.
 ME rcRK

dt b

trorw,

A P!oc6!a couudceted to

m. mRtc tt rom^rx

BT

Mnn iloEM,

rh o.t tb s uc t he pr €s €r t ed U! dtb

r lorderoua Red porder, dtb rucb

!. eltonsda trda8ulod oDe

pud ot Copp6r

Pu. c old.
 IItr oductloI

E. hederlc la fouur' a gerileEa! of honour and r€6pec!-

abluty' &d po6se6s€d o! conslde.able lroperty {a6 d lntllat€

acqudntaacs dth Ea!o! V. Eabzel, atr Envoy at tne Court ot Salnt

J a D o E rs fro n one of the B@U Ger oar Stats6 a bout r0 y €al s of

aAs. gavhg be€n 1ny1!6d one day by the Balob to dre [tb Ud

h. s6Dt at tbo hour appoht€d. lhe Baron told Un be bad JuEt

lecelv€d a a€ssg€ !106 !h6 dn16te.6 rHch r€qdrcd UB l@edats

attertu€ at ibe Tlea6ulyr and tbat aE he had lndted e Vedetla!

Nobl€oaa to une dtb [! be dEhed M!. La Foutd! to mko a

proper apology lor Us ab6c€!ce, ard a! tbe 6ade tlre beAged b€

c o ul d do tb s b o n ous of lbe table for Ed and ent€r tat! tb€ s !;an8er

aE f,el1 aE he ras able, the butler ald olher 6eryarts bad!8

r € ce l ye d o rd e rs !o attend to ds 1r 6!r uct1oN.

Tho boo ve dt to xalt upon tbe [n1st6r s. Soo! after Us

d€parture tbe straraef sa6 adourcgd. fle {as an aasd Aoni}eoan

ol a DoEt vea6.abl€ aDd e!6aA1D8 aspect ard po11te Mnders.

Ur. La F o u u ta l a per folEed the oltlce lopoaed ul on [r by tb6

&ro!, tb€y dn.d and aflenardg conv€rE€d on va!1ou8 BubJects,

lre Pouttcs lh€y eert to Dlddty ed t.o! tha! to Pulosophy.

Af t6 r d scu s8 h g a€velal bluch€s they caoe to c or v er Be oE C hy -

d E l ry, a B u b Je ct h r Ech, 1t tur aed out, !h ai , bol h o! l heE

re!. re l f v6 !a o d . [heD tbey both bad conver sed oD ti l E s ubj ac !

!o! aoce th€ the V€a€tlad asked la Fouotdr rbetber he bad uy

b€Uel h wht !s Dor 6eE6r ally called AlchFy, o! the Ar t ot

t!ea!ut!4 hferlo! lEto roro perfsct n€tal6. y!. La FouDtdn

told U! h6 had rs ad nuch uDo! thc dubJ6ct, d th a der to c oc e

at ao d e p ra ctl ca b l e hor l6d€! o! lt, but Uthelto dthout 6uc c e6a:

But do you b6llevo h the trutb o! the sclencs? R6pl1€d the

otb.r. gs a a a fo f€ d thai, ao uny r €! had f.ote upo! th€ s ubJ ec t,

ard a a scl t€ d l t8 tluth dtb so Duch solodty, tbat be r eal l y

could lot b e l l e ve that they r €r € all l1ar 6, or €y €n s el l dec e1v 6.6,

The NobfoEeD th.D a*od u! 1! bo rould uke to rocelv€ a! occular

l e a i l l o rt o! 1 ta tr utb, to r ucb he ar Br er ed tbat b. ds b.d 1l

ol all tu !8 a .

1b6 Bt.eA€! tb€n told yr. la Founldn that h€ ras ill8€lt

a p os!.a a sr, tb a ! be had 6oEe of tbe E€taluc E€dc i !€ h UE

pock€t and rould satlslly h16 d.61re Eo lar a€ to A1v€ HE a

llttlo ot l t. ne then took out a gold bor fr o! Hs poc k e! lE

rucb th6F ras a good quaatlty of a porderous .ed po*d€!. Ee

lut about balt a teaapoontul of lt hto ser er al l ol ds of pape!

ard Md. r pr.a€nt ot !t to F. la Fou!td., tellhg Us at the

3.!€ ti!6 that 1t could orly b. proJ€cted on coppe!, ald 81du6

U! h 6 tru ctl o d s bor to pr oc..d.

[. La troutd! expreaaed Ua Sratliude fo! tbe 6lftr but

sucb a aucc.661o! of 1d€aa auabod througb Ua drd a6 Eade U!

teel Ua s.l ! tru l y dser abls. lo could not h el p tel l l ng the

6t!q€r th t !. lor loud UdEel! tNly dger abl .t Eor aol

Sdd lbe oth.!. I tbougbt f bad obllgod you by f,hat I hav. dore?

So yo u h rv.r rd d k Foutdn, but ulleaa you do dor r 1t nay

occaaloa 6y !u1r; lo. a!to! I 3b!1I hare recelr6d a! ocula! proot'

rher t shalf hr. loffor€d your lnatructloas 1D Ddr8 proJecllo!,

1t uy produc€ aucb a doslr. to b. a pasea6o. tbat I uy d!

lys.lt sd sp.Dd ry rbole tortu!. (th6a about IO,OOO) iE !L6

t

p . r 6u l t d tb o u !.v€ ! attddq 1t,

Tb. atldngor raa !ute, sd as.n.d to redtat! {lth hlEself

lor aoao d!ut6a. At ]ast b. aeld to U! I'Vl6]tt ! dU 9ut Jou

ln loaaosalod ot lh8 ray to .r.cut. tEs SilU ARAilCg o! tba

1IICTURE. TU8 !a !o! lhs graud EUd!: lt !€ ody r Brdl rork'

!1t ior cu!1Dt t!. t€proay o! dctrl8 but lot r !odc1n. !o. tb€

bruD body; and, b.31de6r 1t3 th6h8 pore! 1€ vory lldt.d -

8e! pcb ud paD6r ard rr1t. whrt I 8hU dctat. to you.'l

h. La Foutrld! th€r rroto dou tba procead lron ths Ve!€t1d

robleler s on !o u!b. Al!€r br vhg it 1u U6 poBas l doa about

tan yssa t tb t 14, abut tr .!!J y.ar € aAo, h€ p€!d!!€d h.

&c€tro! to d. a copy tro! th. o.itlnal I.S.

8 .l !!o .!.d Ur afao tht h. hr d m d. pr oj .c tl or dth l he r ed

pordu th t hd b.u 81vs! io [! upod ou. poud ot pur l fl odo r

-T.
ruch b€ hdd b€e! 1!lora.d rra tb. b€at or tbc olly t1t lotal

!o. tua pdtlcul* t1!ctur., by tb. V6!€!1a!, and !h.t h. obtall8d

\eailJ t/4 ol a louid of oo6t pule ot 24 carols.
O

Tba follo{1ng paaes are a faltblul traEslatlon Mde by h,

B a c stmd fro e E6 on coly of tbe !r oc€6a, Bd 6 1tr tbe l onth ot

& ta! as tHs stat€D€ri of !act6 relateG to tb. v€lac1ty

ot k. la Foutd! lt @J be relled oa. f,e raa h coDpey dth

th VsDotlaa troblels alluded toi .ece1?ed f!o4 hl! the lrocassi

tecelv€d alao aod6 pord6! of ploj€ctlo! froE U6, and dth tb€

6e6 pord€r tasBluted aoEe coplar hto AoId. But elthgr th€

V€D€tlar dlluuy dshlomed Ia Fountala of ths datt6! he eDptoy.d

or by uoflre h€ D€et soD€ otber dD€ral the tbe one bom 1!

hglard bI that !de; for, Elnce tbe t.dalatloo ras mde' Dr.

hc6tro! lrl€d ttr6 €ned!€[t, follod!8 eractly tbe plocesa tlvon'

edpfol4!8 a vely fd! apec16€D o! tbe Wollrs fouDd 1! tho th-

drea b Cohralr ed h6 lourd thailhe llrst plece b€ tbrer 1Dt

Ustoad ot illoallq or thc ltdd ed not D€lng d€st.oyed by

O

ltrr re ry aoor d sa ppaar ed- Es ther efor e d€coD thued l he D F c eEa.

Would th€ result beve boetr dfts!€dt lf h€ had conthued to thr

lr *sEb p1€c66 ot WoltlM?

Aus8t 179?.
 TbouSh lot tb6 g!€at€st, a glcat Sclel c €!

Ih6 labr! dth lollle.

rcLmM, rcLFm, rcFRtr, bre*a 1D Hr-dD.s, ls u ebortus

alory or., orteEally ot a black app.alec€, r*c erdae,

Y {

but 1! you Ecratch lt dth r! Uor ltBtlu.lt 1t 6bor. I bdgbt

!.d 8tt@, rUIe t1r-Erdla shor a rut. strck€.

So.tllea toltro 1B lo4-stdated, ud at oth€r tl,!€s 1t

fook cEctIJ Ute eruaa.

{

T!. loltu d.cclv.a the dr.!6 !uch, rh€D tL.y ro.k

"ery
tlo { orc; lor 1t !t&& o! r.dB h t!. rat.r dt! tbe cloc

Toltue d.stroy6 ed lFlls th6 !6 r! tb !.1t1q ot tb. o..,

ed rust, lo! lht rorso! b. car.ful1y s.pr!.tod t!o! th.

{

rul. 1t ls budq.

Ita !s€, troltlu rlfudea to lts rapaclous utu!€ h actllg

uro" .
{

tl. pulfcatlo! ot tb. ror tE! rork.

O
+
Tue !u. rut. pebbles, touc 1! lr.sh rat.! dv.!3, de

tb.r !.d-hot, ed tX.! .ltl$dsh tb.. h 6 h ordo. th.t tbey

 7

uy becor. rbrt ed Ddttl€; thsn b.at tb.! lato r llD€ poxd.r

1! e lF! !o!t.!. Pr.tsle Jouaaolt e autdclelt quutlty ot

tU6 Ecbble pord.r.

tror !.1t I o! 2 Llb o! tood O , ed as soo! 16 !t tlor!

T
p&J.ct. a@U 1!o! kd.frl1 ol you D.DDI. Eord.r, !!€dou.It

b.at.dr o! tb . !.l t.d tlcr c.ce yo* A*a lct th.! tl ot

Ql
-r
r.ll to!.tb.r.

!h. t.bDle pord.r dll bccoo. bl.ck: as soor rs you a.. tht

1t 1. b.co!. black !*c 1t ott calctullt dtb r aelI Ehry.d6.d

g7Uuf" oto r 10!6 bDd.. B. c.r.!ull thrt tou t*. !o

I
.1o!8 dth lt.

R.p..t tLo a&. oDcrrlloD by Drolcctl4 sotb.r ladr tull

ot b.rt.a p.bbl. tord.D upoD !h. !.It.d u tm cor.! you

$ f,:
L td , od I.y tr csb cor l! oD th. top, tor 1t r c qul r !!
$atl.

u lr!.u. h6at, rEd lct th.! .6rl! llor rlll tog.tLc!, fb.a

' th. dlt.cc ol thr IDtt tbt la thc p.bblo Doral.! haa b.co!.

bhck u bctoret t.t. 1t oll {d! carotully ea at th€ !1!!t.

Ib. p.bbl. pord.! rcts a! a !.!a!nu upo! th. , la th.

I
&t r ryr ud 6 xtrrct. the 8r o!r .r t.!!el r .d+out ot th. Q,
T
ud p u l f!.s tb c Q @r . md @!. r t.ach op.m tl or .
7
Thl. DmJoctl4 of L.alod D.bbl. porde! ud !.!.!atot th.

bLck rcodr. !u!t b. !.p.at.d etll th. p6bb1. Eord.! !.d!.

cl.d ud rU!. o! th. surface of th. o.Ited rorctfmr

$ -

llqfrt RED ua at laat !!aeD. la !@r ra !o lora blach.lr cu

bo .xtrrct.d tus operatlo! 1! fldsbed, atd your dU h.vc
I
bccoE. b.rut1tul, atrd took 1*! ALITID O ot a lost dcflclt.

8!d!, (thu6 !e! hB b.6D prov.d by Drr kcstro6.)

Tbu. you hr6 !!.pu.d rnd pdt1.d you! I llt to b. t1D8!d

trto O by tb. tortrs pr.pelcd dlh 6 o, ,ol ,otro-oa

hoc 6ar .

f*o Aooa 6 CmD[x 2 11b, let 1t !.1t h e roody !: Uvc

your Wolfuu !c.dJ beat hto srell p1.c€s ot th. sir. o! r lluirc8,

d{ hrta lt rmcd.

ft.n you ... tut tt 6 llorr tu! !k. , dth r Edr ot

V
to4e DFJcct o!. hlt.tt.r eotl.! ol th. L€at.d foltlu upo!

tU $ u nsj'or, rblch Dl.c.! dU flort oa tlc 6 dd lot b.

deatloy.d by 1t. b lot thFr 1! !o!. tbo 5 o! 6 lutl bltg

th. nlat tlD..

tbc tlortl!8 blt8 ot {ol,tnr dI1 b.coE€ AS Rm AS BLOD,

dd dll .ttnct th. c olt r r f { out or t le d h tudo!, BI MS

T
OF ItS mmc - rEci ala.dc rr.l1 E.rtly.vapn!. rr,tb th.

oo of 6 . !b. thctu. ol Clu tlc foltre udt.! b..! dth

r!3 tttrCtuRE or oOLDxr o! $ , rule tb.6 1! th. mltlu

+
13 t!. mSmUUN rr IEIA DRY Y t.

Ib.! you !.!c.lv€ tht thc loltle ha b€co!6 qdt. r.d, t&.

1t out rttb you toqs ed ht lt !.* to tb. a, ho1. o! ih.

bot dld fwac€, to cool glrdually,

cortlDu€ !o plol€ct t..sh blts o! Yolfle oD !h! c.1t1{ E ,

aa 1o!8 16 thcy b.co[s aed. holavar tht re&caa caaaaa lt

1s e 61& lht th6 f,olfts hs robb.d Ac 6 of aff lt! c.!t!al

V r "f trq fu A. Ih.r lt ls !1!. !o r 6avo otr pr oJ c c r l l t

t7+
ry m!. foltle UFE tour O .

PFl.cEo!

n.lt I llb o! you pull?l€d 9 , ud, ae soo! as 1! lfors

tdlt ptoJcct hlt e ouc. ot your !e.l prolar.d foltr@; leducod

lo r nr. IDrdar, ad drad dth 2 oucc! o! !.lt.d ru, up!

you !.l,t.d g . kt lt !.Mor 2 bour6, cov.r.d dth r Ud.

At hc .!d ot th. 2 boua pou lt out ud you dIl nld r,/4 UD

ol Sod O ol 24 csrts.

lM Cod tor tU6 bl.!al!6 ud b. cbr1tabl. torrrda yout

datlcllcd lcllor. cHatles.

tou !u!t b. c.utlous tbt tro cof! &op hto your .

E

Iur.

6lb.rt! u.t.Iulg.

,lolftu 1r. e black-bFE atrhtad o!c, €orclh€r cotratsctad

of fbar! rltbout olalar, aoiatlda! ,.t coDllats ol iU! luparlEcu-

b6!t aull l..r.a. fl tou lcrrtcb 1tr 1t tb€r app.r!! o! r dc.D

!.4 colou. lt .trd,:L tb + Dt tt. lFD tDglcl.t.n

Y.lElt rt Lrw b Ll'r Dtct,'@lt ot

L!&l U.tott ot th. , D.:Etr.nt. ot

X.tq I to Yel. II D. 66, - 9.t.!

os lolirrt !.. o .rf,d,crl Citoo., ec! rF
"olln -!!|
.rDula Y sbt.t r. or !niD. tt t. Dt woDn to flld iol,t-

il t! tlr { uo.. co3 th. + on."

 0f the Medlcine or T in c t u re
c f A n t in o ry r
as well to preserve i{ a n s B o d , y in He a rt h ,

and to divert arl d . e s p e ra t e a n d in c u ra b le

Diseas€sr as arso t o c u re t h e
L e p ro s ie o f
Fietals, to puri fi e a n c t o t ra n s n u t e
then
into the be st GoId .

'd/ritten by that r{oble and, Learned, Fhiro-

sopher , Ro ger Bac orr .

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OF THE

TTNCTURE

or

AitTfi\'IOilY.

STIBIUM or AI{TIMONY, as the Phlloeophers say, ls cornpoeed

of a $oble l4l-neral Sulphur, rhlch they accounted to be the black

seeret Lead of the Wlse.

fhe ARABIANS call lt ASI'OT or AZI4A,T; the Alchynlsts retalu

the nane AI{TIMOIIY.

ADDITION. The MOORScall it ANTIM0NY, others call lt Atl\-

BASTER, or IARBASOITI:By the ARABfAIIS aad SPAilfARDS lt ie called

ALCO$OI. AVICEIINAEc. ?. calle 1t ARTEMED. ATEXIUS of PIEDMONf'

Ln hls eeventh Book of Secrets, calls lt TALCK, ever as JOHN

JACOB WECKE"R
renders tt ln hle Books of Secrets; but TATCK le

far dtfferent fron AI{TIMOIW. PII$Y, Book }3 Cbapter 5 of A}ITI-

![Oi{Y. DIO8CORIDESglves a preparatlon of AI{IIMO$Y, Book 5 Chap.

19. fhey ca}l lt also STIBI, STIMMI, etc. Ihe Garnaas call Lt

SPfES-GLASS; or aa GEORCEFABRICIUS sould rather have lt; SPIES-

GL.S$TZ. GffiLAIIDIUS calle lt Black ALCOPHII, ALTOfl$L, or ALfRAN,

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others COSIIET,aad j-t is twofoldn i.Iasculine and Fenlalne.

ft will lead us to the consi-deration of hlgber l-Iysteries,

if we behold and discern that Nature wherein Gold is exalted,

eYen as the l{AGf bave found, that th5-s Mineral is by God ordalned

under tbe Constellatlon of Aries, which is the flrst Celestial

Siga, uhereia the Sun takes its Exaltati-on, tbough thls be not

regarded by the Vulgar; yet discreet people w111 kaow, and the

better observe, that evea in thj.s place also tbe Mysterlee and

Perpetuity nay i-a part be consldered wlth great beneflt, and 1n

part dj.scovered.

But sone lgnorant and indiscreet people tLlnk, that when

they bad .0,NTIMONY,tbey would deal well eaough lntth it by Cal-

claatlon; otb,ers by Sublinatlon, and sone by Reverberatlon, thereby

to obtaln lts great Mystery aad perfect medlcine. But I teIl

yolrr that herela thls place 1t avalles not ln the least, elther

Calci"natlon, Subllnation, or Reverberation, whereby afterwards,

a p e r fect extraction can or urig h t b e d o n e o r e f f e c t e d wit h p ro f i-t ,

to transnute tbe neaner into a better Meta1l1ck vLrtue; for it Ls

lnposslble for you.

Be not deluded; sone of the Pbllosophers wblcb have wrote

of such things, as GEBER, ALBERTUSl,tAcrYUS,RASfS, RUPECISSA,

ARISTOTTE, and nany others: But observe thls: Sone say, that lf

AlfflMOlff be nade to a VITRfUM, or G1ass, the bad volatile Sul-

phur 1s gone, aad tbe Oi-l whlch nay be prepared out of that Glass,
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rI.J-l be a very flrt 011, and wtLl really glve an lngress; and

Medlcine of perfectlon to tbe lnperfect Metals,

These words and oplnJ.oo" i"" good, and true, but 1t lrl11 not

be nor appear 6ucb ladeed; for I telI you truly, nlthout concealed

speeches, th,at Lf you loose aay of the aforeEald SULPEOR

ln the

Preparatlon or Buraing, for a snall flre nay eaeLly preJudlce

1tr you then have lost tbe true penetratlng Splrltl rblch should
nake the wh.ole Body of AI{TIMONY
to a perfect red Otl, rhlcb ehould
aIEo aecead over the helm rlth a dellghtful sant, and curd.ous
colours; obeerve ll.herlse, tbat the uhole Body of thle Mineral,
rtth aII lte nenbers, ehould be but oue 011, and ascend over the

heln rdthout aay J.ose of relght, excepttng the FECES.

Eow ehould tbg Body be brougbt to an 011, or y!.eLd l-ts pleasaat

Ol.I, lf lt be brougbt to the last belng of Lto d.egree, for Glaee

1E ln all thlags the utnost and laet,
'You ebatl llkevlee hnor that you shall not obtaln that perfect

aoble Ol-I ln tbe least, 1t lt be extracted wlth conected Vlaegar

poured upoa tbe AMII'IONY' Dor yet by Reverberatlon; and althougb

Ite varlous colours nay app€ar, yet 1s 1t not tbe rlgbt ray; you
nay lndeed get aa Oil, but you nuet know tbat 1t bath no part
of the Tl'ncturer or porer of trauenutatlon ln lt.
 IIow we cone to the Manua1 Operation.

Take in the name of God, aad of the Eternal Trinity, flne

and very pure Mlaeral ANTII,IONY,whlch ls fair, whJ-te, rnassj-e,

and inwardly fulI of yellow streaks or Velne, and llkeurise of

red blue colours, and snall V1eus, th:ls 1s the best; pound 1t

to fine powder, dissolve it by little and little is AQUL REcfS,

that the lt/ater rnay conquer it. After Solutlon take it out lnned-

iately, tbat the AQUAREGIS nay do it no prejudlce; for 1t will

quickJ.y dlssolve the Tincture of the ANTIMONY;for our Water 1n

its aature is like the OSTRICH, which by his heat can digest lron,

aad consunre it to notblag; for the Water will consune it, and

turn it to a Mud, that lt shall renain only as a yellow Earth,

a n d the n is it quite spolIed.

Take an Exanple hereof fron Si-Iver, which ls dlssolved, fair,

pure and flne j.n these our Waters; but lf lt staad a alsht therei.n,

sh ile th e T/ater is strong and f u I I o f S p lrit s , I teII you, your

good Silvelrfll be comoded to nothlng in these our Vlaters; and

though you would reduce it into a l'tassie Bodyr Xou cannot, for

lt 'r4ll remaln as a pale yellow Earth, and sometlnes l.t w1ll ruu

together ln the forn of Eora, or of a wbite llorse Hoof, wbich

you can by no Art reduce i'nto a Body.

Wherefore you nust renember to take tbe ANTfMONYout presently

after tbe So1utlon, preclpltate aad edulcorate it according to

the custon of ALCIIE:{ISTS, that tt, rnay not be comoded with its

perfect 0i1 by the lYater, and burnt up to nothlng,

The $Iater wherein we dlssolve r is thus made.

R, VITRf0L, a pound and a ha1f, SALT-ARIIOI{IACone pouadn

AZfNAT oue pound, SALT-NITR a pound and a half, SAIT-GEI,IMEone

poundn ALL0M half a pound; these are the ingredients which be1on6

unto the naking of the Water for the Solutlon of AI.ITII,1ONY.

Tahe and n1.x th,en well together, at first *lstil very slowly,

for tbe Spi-rlts ascead wtth greater violence than those of any

other cotnnor AQUASORTIS; beware of lts Splrits; for tbelr Funes

are very subtlle and hurtful la their preparatloa-

lYhea you have edulcorated the Ai{TIMOlfy weII and purely fron

the corrosive llfater1 tben put it into a clean Vial, pour good

&istilled Vinegar upon lt, eet i.t fourty days and nights to put-

refle in Eorse-dung, or ln BALNEUI{MARfAS, lt rvj.l-l be blood-r€d.

Take L t outr Fnd see how nuc h is y e t t o b e d ls s o lv e d r decant off

gently tbe pure and clear, whi-ch is red lnto a Glass Gourd, pour

other Vinegar upon the FAECESas before, that lf any thlng should

yet reuraln thereln, lt migbt be dlssolved; thJ.s must be done four

tines J'a fourty days and nlghts; for lf any good be ln tbe FAECES,

i-t wlLl be dissolved 1n that ti.nen theB cast the Dregs asay as

unprofltable, being but dlrt, and to be cast to the Dunghl1l.

 Put all the solutions Ln a grass-Gourd lnto BALI{Eut"lMARTA,
distill all the tart vinegar fron lt pour lt on agaln, or else
pour freshr if this be too weak, lt w111 qulckly dj-ssolve in the
vlnegar, distll 1t again fron lt, that the Matter be quite dry:
then take connon d1stl1led water, wash arl tartnesg fron it with
the vinegar lnparted to the i,latter, thea dry the Matter ln the
sunr wirich is of a very deep red, or else dry 1t very well at a
g e n tl e flr e.

when the Phllosophers flnd our Al{Trilolry thus secret,ly pre-

pared, they say then that lts external nature and rirtue is ln-
verted lnternarJ.y; aad the lnternal cast forth externally, hence-
forth beconlng an 0i1, which is coacealed ln its innernost aad
profoundest part, t111 lt be werr prepared, and canaot anynore
be brought into lts first Eesence, untill the rast Judgenent;
and lt ls true, for ao soon as it f e e ls t b e f o rc e o f t h e f lre ,
it flLes away ln a vapour w'ith all its parts, because it 1s vor-
a tl l e.

Some of the corlnon Laborators, harring tbus prepared ANTfMOI{Y,

the y take one part out, becaus e o f lt s c o n s u n p t io n s , that they
na y th e b etter operate it, tbe y n 1 x wj. t h it o n e p a rt of sALT-
ARMoNrAcr one part of the vrrRUu (wlth others TTTRUM)one part
of the REBoorg (witrr others cADoLr) wherewlth the bodies are

creansed; tbis nlxture they cast upoa a pure LUNA, and lf there
were etght Ounces of the Lut{A, tbey found tea Drams of good Gord
ln the separation; and sooetines nore; and by this work they

6a in e d wherewithall to bear t h e ir Ch a rg e s , t h e b e t t e r to attend

upon, aad attain unto the great Work. The ignorant called this

an lnduction j,nto the Sl1ver, but that is false; for thls Gold

is not brought into lt by the Splrl-ts, but every kind of Sl.lver

hath one Ouuce of Gold nore or less in the Mark (or I Ounces)

for Gold is so uulted with the Nature of Sl-lver, that lt cannot

be separated from 1t, either by AQUAlCIRT, or connon AMIfMONY,

as the GOLDSi4ITIISknor.

But nhen the aforesaid Conposltion ls cast upon the IUNA in

the flux, tb,en bappens such a separation, that the LUI{A doth

freely 1et go the Gold inplaated therein into the AQUA,FORT,

and

i-s separated fron it, lettlng it precipltate and slnk to the

bo tto n , which othervise co u ld n o t b e d o n e a t a ll. T h e re f o re it

i-s not an induction into tbe IUNA, but a brlnging out of lt.

But we return again to our proposed Ytork; for we would have

only the Oil, whlch was only knorva to tbe llJj.se, and not to the

Ignorant.

When you have rubifled the ANTIMOIfYvery well accordlng to

the former Directions, you nuet have in readJ.nesa a Spirtt of

Wl.ae well rectifled, pour 1t over the red Powder of ANTIMONY,

eet lt four days and nlghts in a gentle BALIIEUI,IMARI.AE, that it

nay dissolve verJr well. And i.f then any of lt remaln undlssolved,

pour fresh Splrtt of l{he upon lt, set 1t again into the Bath
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aE aforesald, all w111 be well dlssolved; and lf perhaps any

nore FIOECES
renain, tbey will be very fer, cast tben avay, for

they are good for aoth5.ng, Put the Solution lnto a glaes-Gourd,

rlth a Eead luted upon it, set lt lnto BALI{EUI{MARTAE,wlth. lts

receiver to take the Spirlts, distll slowly with a slack heat,

ti1l all the Sp5.rit of Wlae be cone over, pour it on again upon

the dry mattern draw lt off a6a1n as before; thi-s pouring in aad

abstractlag contlnue so often, till you Bee the splrit of l{ine

ascend over the he1n. ln various colours, then 1s it tine that you

foLlow lt urltb. a strong f1re, then will the splrlt of litllne ascend

red lnto the hern, and drop lnto the Recelver like a bloody 011,

aad tbe tender Body ascends lJ-ke a red Oil, dropping into the

R ece lve r; truly this ls the mo s t s e c re t wa y o f t h e W1 s e , t h e s o

nuch applauded Oil of ANTII'IONY;1t is a aoble well sented, vlr-

tuous, and powerful O11, as you shall hear afterwards.

But here I w'LlI teach and lnstruct you poor Operators anotber

trdyr because you bave not the Means to attend the great work;

not as the Aaclents dldr wlth the separation of Gold out of Silver.

llherefore take oce part of tbe olr or half aa ounce of SATURN,

four Ouaces, cal,cl.ned according to Art, pour tbe 011 upon the

CALX OF SATURIf' rnJglg lt; set 1t tea days and nlghts j.n the

beatr iato the secret !'uraace; every two days augnent tbe flre

one degree, accordlng to the capacity of th.e Furaace; after four

d,aye and nights eet lt lnto the thlrd degree of Fire, thereln
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let it rest tbree days and nights, tben opetr the Door or Vent

of the fourth degree, which nust likervi.se costinue three days

aad nlghte; afterwards take 1t out, tbe SATURNviI1 be above

black, Ilke unto Charcoal dust, but under this black dust you 1111

ftnd other colours, throughout pure, red, yellow, which flux

wlth VINETfAN BORAX, you n111 flnd it converted lnto good Gold

by tbe povrer of our 011, so have you neans again to set forvard

the great sork.

ltJe return agaJ.a to our purpose, where we left off before.

You have heard, and have beea lastructed how to abstract the

Sp5.rit of 'dii.newtth the Oil over the heln into the Receiver, and

to use l.t for the worh to convert SATURI{lnto Go1d. But we w111

nos hastea to the other work of the Tincture, and give advlce

concerning 1t, ft rtll therefore be necessary to separate the

Spirlt of !'{ine agaln fron the O1}, which do as folIows.

Take tbe nixture of the Splrlt of tr'{lne, and of the O11, set

It lnto BALNEUMIjIARIAS, dletll the Splrlt of Wine only frou the

O11 xrith a very slack heat, so that you nay be assured that tbere

is no nore of the Splrlt to be found in thls nost preclous 011,

wblcb you nay easlly try, when you see sone of the drops ascend

over uith the Spirlt of Wine, lt ls a sign tbat the SpJ.rJ.t of

WI.ne le seperated fron the 011, then renove all the f1.re fron

und.er tb.e Bath, how little soever lt be, that lt nay cool the

sooBero Take away tbe Recelver wlth the Spirlt of W1ne, stop
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it ve r y close, for it i-s fu ll o f S p lrlt s wh ic h it h a t h re t a in e d

fron the 011, as you will hear afterwards: But in BALNEUIIMARIAE

you urltl find that blessed Otl of AIITIMONYred as Blood; take lt

out, wash tbe Lute off by gentle nolliflcationr that nothing

inpure nay fal1 into that curious red O11r wben you take tbe

be a d off; reserve lt carefu lly , that b y n o me a n 6 lt n a y re c e iv e

preJudlce, for you bave a Celestial Oi.l, whlch ln a dark n15bt

shlnes like a glowJ.ng coal1 and tbls is the reasonr because lts

lnternal power and soul ls cast forth externallyr the hidden SouI

belng trow revealed, shinlng through the pure Body as a Caadle

thro,ugh a Lantborn, even so at the last day, tbese our inrrisi,ble

iaternal Souls shall be rgvealed, and seen out of the Bodyr shiniag

as the clear Sua: So keep each apart, as well the Sp1r1t of Wlne

full of power, and wonderful in curiag hunane Distenpers, as

a lso th e blessed, redr nob le , c e le s t la I 0 1 1 r wb ic h t ra n e n u t e s

a ll th e Diseases of the lnp e rf e c t Me t a ls in t o t h e p e rf e c t lo n of

GoId; and the power of tbe epirltual i?ine extends very far being

rlghtly used.

I teIl you, you have ob t a ln e d a Ce le s t ia l Me d ic in e r t o c u re

all tb,e Dlseases and Dlstenpers of Mans Body; its use 1st as

follo r e th;
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IN T HE G O UT .

Glve three drops ia a cup of Wlne fasting to the Party, Just

at tbe tlne when he feels tbe beglnn:ing of hi-s nisery, angulsb.

and pain to cone upoa hi.n, the second and tbirdr use lt ln Ilke

lnalrner; it allaiee all pain the fi.rst day how great soever j.t

ber and prevents Srelling; the second day it causes Sweatr whlch

ls very aasty, tough and tblck, very aour ln taste, aad of an

evil sent, and nost of all in those parts where the Menbers are

un lted and Joiaed together b y t h e J o in t s ; a n d 1 f y o u s h o u ld g iv e

noae l-a the tblrd day, yet vr"ll1 there be a purgation of the Velnst

a n d of the E xcrements, witho u t a a y n o le s t a t lo s o r p a ln ; is n o t

this a great power of Nature?

r$ THE LEPROSTE.

At the flrst tfune take six drops fastingr and cause the in-

pure party to be alone1 free frorc sound people, ln a place far

dlstantr and conrnodlous; for all his Body will begin to send

forth Funes aud Steans, like unto a stlnking Fogr and Vapours

abundantly; the next trilI scales aad much Uncleanness fall from

hie Body; then let hln have three drops of thls Mediclner and

let lrin take l.t ln oa tbe fourth day, afterrvards on the elghth

or nlntb day by the asslstance of Gode Grace and Blessingr he

u1 1 1 be quite clean.
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IN TIIE APOPLEXIE.

Let one drop farl upoa the tongue of the pati-ent, lt will
attract j't forth funnediately, rlke unto a M:Lst or ftrme1 and re-
store tbe party again; but if he were taken in the Body, or rn
the llenbers and Linbs, thea give hin tbree d.rops at once ia good
Wlne, as you have beea taught in the Gout.

I$ TIIE DROPSTE.

Give one drop in bauln waterr or Valerian water stx days

to g e th€rr the seventh day g iv e t h re e drops in good rine, and
i t, is su f fl'cj' ent .

In the Falliug Slcks.ess, and I.ts kinds, as

Epi-lepslen Catalepsie, and Analepsie.

rn the begiaaing of the Flt glve the patient trrro drops 1n

sage-vfater, after three hoursr give hin tbree drops more, and
it i-s sufflcleat. But if ln case any thing should, stir again,
give h1n tco drops, as hath been sald.

rN A IIECTTCK.

Give the party two drops the flrst day in water of violets,
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the second day two drops nore in good ',rrine.

rN A G UE S .

G1-ve the party three drops 1a the beginni'g o f the Et, early
ln the norningr in good dis t ille d wa t e r o f S t . J O HNT SWo rt , o r
of Succory, and the next day two
drops more fasting.

rN TIIE PLAGUE.

Give the patient 6even drops ia good, vliine, let the inf ec ted,
party be a1one, and let hin sweat welr upon lt, by the Dlrrlne
Assistaac e that polson lrirl n o t p re ju d ic e h irn a s t o b is lif e .

For a prolongatioa of a healthful Life.

Take and give two drops at tbe beginnlng and entrance of

the spri-ng, and i.n the beginnlag or entrance of Autunn likenlse
two drops; every one that so takes it, is freed, and welr pre-
served fron unhealthful; a'd infectlous Alr, except tbe Dlsease
were by Alnlghty God ord,aiaed for the death of the party.

lVe will now step further to the 011, and, l ts Power, and show
h o w b y lt the Dlseases o f th e lnpure Bodles of the Metals may
be cur e d .
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fa the lilaraeof God, take very pure, fine, refined Gold, a6

nu ch as you w111, or thlnk t o b e s u f f ic ie n t , d is s o lv e it in a

rectifi-ed W1ne, as ls usual to nake AqUA VITAE; after solutlon

of the GoId, set 1t a Moath in digestion; thj-s distll ln a Bath

very slow and gently, dlstll tbe SpirJ.t of i{ine dlvers ttnes from

ltt so loag t111 you see yo u r G o ld lle at the botton lik e a J u i. c e ;

This ls the true way and neani.ng of sone of the Anclents, to pre-

pare Gold. But I will shew and teach you a way nuch readier,

b e tte r , and more beneflcial; t h a t ln s t e a d o f t h ls p re p a re d G o ld,

you take one part of the IIERCURYof Gold, as I have taught the

nakj-ng of lt ln anotber placel abstract frono it lts water of

Airiness, tbat i.t nay be a subtll Dust, and take two parts of

our blessed Oil, pout the Oil very slowly upon tbe Dust of the

I'1ERCURY
of Goldn ti1l all be ln lt, set lt 1a a Vtal well sealed,

ln the beat of the fi-rst degree of tbe secret Furnace; therein

let l't stand ten days and nlghts, your Powder aad 011 will be

qulte dry, of a black gray colour. After ten days glve it the

beat of the second degree, the gray and black colour 1111 by

Ii-ttle aud little becone wblte, till at last it will be a heavenly

shite, and at tbe end of the ten days it w.ill begin to be of a

pure red, but 1et not thJ.s trouble you; for all these Colours

proceed anly fron the MffiCURI of GoId, which swallowed up our

blessed OiI, and now conceals ln the lnnernost part of i.ts Body;

but our 011 !n'I11 conquer thls UERCURYof GoLd by the power of tbe
 17

flre, and cast forth fron wlthln, and the 0i1 will predoninate

over i-t with its hot red Colour aad be continually outwards.

And therefore it wlll be tine, after the explrition of tuenty

days, that you open the rrJ.ndowof tb.e thlrd degree, wherein the

external whj.te Colour and Power wl-lI by little and llttle enter

ia l-nto tb,e lnward part and the laternal red Colour will turn

outward by tbe force of the fire. Keep thls degree of beat ten

days witbout dininutloa or augnentation of lt, you wlll see a

Powder whlch before was wblte, to be now very red, but let not

redness trouble you for I tis yet unflxed and volati-le: .A,ndafter

these ten days af endedr thirty days bej.ng in all expired, then

opea the last wlndow of the last degree of fj.re, keep it ten days

ln th1.s degree, thi.s hlgh red powder w:ill then begln to fJ.ux,

let lt stand. so 1n flux the ten days, then take lt out, you w111

flnd at the botton a very hlgh, red, transparent Stone of a Ruby

Colour fluxed accordlng to the forn of the Glass; as ls taught

i.n the Treatlse of VfTRIOL, wherewlth you nay nake projection.

PraLse God for euch hJ.s hlgh Revelatlon, and thank hin forever,

AMEII.

rTS MULTIPTICATTON.

The Anci ent Wi-se, havlug found t h e S t o n e , a n d p re p a re d it

to a pe rfect power; and nut a t lo n o f t h e in p e rf e c t Me t a ls ia t o

 1B

Gold, bave a long tise enqulred whether a thlng lvere not to be

fouad to augneat tbe power of the Stone; and they found tvlo klnds

of Augnentation, one of the power of ltr so that the Stoue rnay

be brought nuch hi-gher; of thi"s nult,iplicatlon you will flnd

di.rectlon ln the Treatise of GoId. The other Augnentatlon ls

an augmentatlon of the quanti.ty of the Stone, in lts forner powert

so that it recej.vee no more, nor loses any thlng of i.ts power,

thougb. it increase La weight, and augnent nore and rcorer that

out of one Ounce rnany Ounces arise and i.ncr€ds€.

The Augnentation or Mul-tiplicatj-on i.s doae as followeth;

Take your Stone ln Gods $ame, grind lt to a Subtile powdert add

to lt as louch of the HRCURI of GoId, as is taught beforer put

tben to6ether lnto a fine round Via1, seal it hernetlcallyr set

i-t into tbe flery Furnace, proceediag as you have been instructed

before, only thj-s tine ls shorter, for whereas before you had

tea ( thirty) days, now you need !o more than four ( tea) days,

otherwlse the vork ls one and the sar!€.

Pralse and give thanke to Alnigbty God for his blgh Revelationt

contlnue in Prayer for his Grace and Divlne Blessing in thls

Art and Operation, as likerise for contiauaace of liealth and

Proeperlty; rtthal let the poor be reconnended to your llelp and

Char{-ty.

Glory be to Aln5.ghty God.

 SO ME TH OU GH TS
ON THE HI NT G I VEN BY

eAg,SL W/tNT,Sr/v€
of o

VIA S ICCA
REGENERATION
US
PRINCIPIORU M

TRANSLATED BY:

s.Twgq,sw,n@ffi,
fit.m.
t7 97
TABUIJA SMARAGDINA HERMETIS.

VERBA SECRETORUM HERMETIS.

It is ttuc, cer tain, end r ithout fr l r c hood. that r hatev er i s bel or i s l i k e thet r hi r h
is above; and that r hich is ebov e i s l i he tbr t r bi c h i s bel ow : to ac eor npl i s hthe on?
ronderful worl. Ag rll thingr erc derived from the Ona Only Thing. . by the will end
by thc r or d of the One Only One r ho c r er ted i t i n tl i s I'l i nd. s o al l thi ngs o$e
their existenceto this Unity by t he or der of N r tur e, and c an bc i m pr ov ed l ,y Adap-
trtion to that lflind.

lts Father is the Sun; itr Mot har i s the i \toon: the W i nd r er r i es i l
and its nur sc is the Eorth. Thir Thin3 ir the Frther of all perfect
rorld. lts pnrcr ir most parfoct rhen it her rlain bnen ehongerl irrto
thr Earth from thc Firc, the subtlc frnm tln grcr, but cercfully and
ment ahd slill.

tt necend.rfrom earth to hervcn, and desccndsagnin. ner born. to thn r"arth. tnhing
unto itself thar eby the Jr or er of thc Abov e ond the Bel ow . T hus t.he s pl endor of the
rhole world rill be thine, and all darkness shall flee from tboe.

This is the sLrongestof all powers, thr Force of all forces,for it overcometh all suhtle
things and can pcoctr ata all that i s s ol i d. F or thus ta! the w or l d c r eated. and r ar "
combinations, and wonders of many kinds arc wrought.

Ilcnce I am ealled llEnl\tES Tnts ,\f l tGIST U S. hav i ng m as ter edthe tbr ee par ts of thr '
wisdom of the whole r or ld. W hat I hav e l o 6ay about the m as tc r pi eeeof the al c hr m -
ieal ert. thc Solar Work, is oot ended.
 O N BASIL VALE N TIN E .S P R OC E S S

In ny reroarks on De la Brle I s process I have stated ny opln:ion

th a t Basillusrs subjects we re Q ana+' r ' I rill n o w mo re f u l1 y

conmunicate to you lty ideas, such as I would wi.sh to put to the

te st of experinent, at the f irs t s e a s o n a b le o p p o rt u n it y r if God

spare your life and nine, conceruing his sald Via Sicca Regen-

erationis Princlpiorum.

ile cauee" $ to say " Ai" ny greatest enemy aad yet ny best
T -/ \
fr ie n d . My courtship ts w lt h a me rry wif e . t t b e re re p re s e n t ed
e,
d,eslroyeti by tne @ .

rlf are celebrated

f an uat ted to hertf l.n tbe
\ "ana our nuptlals
ia hellrfr in the wind furnace, ttso tbat we &ay sweat rvellrr ftll-

rd.nate and roelt, I'the subti]-tr tne Athe MOSTsubtll of De la

A

Bri-e I'w"irl cast out all filth" the comoslve+"f (D ana

$,
the venorn of the Dragon ltfron us, so that we shall leave behlnd

us chlldren" the black tinsin, vof narive A""A

-r -r 6tiAIIRArul'1
united to the iagressive radical bunrdity or alkalised fixed @
rrxlith rlches, and ln our dead corpse,tr the radlcal hunridity of

(f) enUracing and holdtng tbe black tinging earth and giving lt

ln g r e e s, tta treasuretra ting ln g p o we r, in n y o p in lo n t b e v e ry

earle as that obtained by De 1a Brlers and De iVelllngs processes

nwlll be foundrtf which we bequeatb in our last siII or Testanellt.tr

 3

f h a ve never yet net with a n y lo v e r o f our sclenc e who could

explain the words which I have paraphrased abov€ r much less any

o n e th a t could, go a step or trv o f a rt h e r.

It i-s well known th,at connon Hepar s dissolves i.n the

e
cruclble by neltlng, J.n euch a subtil manner that the O after
the whole bas been nade lnto a lixivlun passes every a t o m t h ro u g h

the densest fi.lter.

Now I reason that if A VOLATILE CRUDEHEPARdlssolves O

thUS SUbtilitY, A FIXED TNGRESSIVEHEPARW111 OPEtr it CENTRAT,LY

and RADICALLYTwhtch is all that is necessary to nake i.t SEi'IINAL

and DfFFIISM, lVo neore is done by De la Br1e, or by Baron de

Welllng, wbose process f shall give you by and by.

Wb,at f have already sald rrill f think be found sufficient

to enable one of your genius to follow out and evea to work the
p ro ce ss to the ead. I propose what follows:

The dry way with 0 and,A

-1-
( ttre Dragon )

Fulnulnat e and alcallse the f lrs t c ry s t a ls o r p u re 0 wit h

FLORESA" proceedlng exactly as I have direc ted in my renarks

T-
on De la Br1.e page 25.

As soon as you flnd, the A

n Uurns away upon the nelt"a (D
so that the nelt"d (D fufninfrs no 1onger, cease projectlng
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any n o r e c o mrro nfl o re s

4".
T
No w h a ve at hand some good , re d , o r y e llo w n a t iv e lv e rl
sed
:pu
and wa r n e d sufficiently, and pro je c t it , o n e tea- gpoon fu1 a f t e r
auo t he r , w alting each tlne for the total c o n f lagration of the
b e for e you throw in a fresh q u a n t it y .

K e e p y ou rA su ttl ci e n trv br isk that the f1xed, be kept

Or ",
j-n constant fuslor.

My lntentlon ls n
here to burn the natlve L.\upon the fluid
fixed, (D ao set clear of the ninerar{or tleAor the franes,
-T-
in o r d e r t o o b ta i n th e b l a ck fixed tinglngv, .io to lntr oduce
at each pro.jec ti.on o f new r and at every conflageration thereof,
a sna1l portioa of that flxed tlnging prlnciple lnto the coacea-
trated, lagresslve RADfCAL HU:iIDfTy of the O .
ra thls !'aa'err proJecting, r vould contlaue unt1l ny neltlng
flutd masg becane black, takiag care to stir lt sonetlnes with a
s t alk o f a tobacco plpe, but no t t o s t ir 1t too nuch.
As soon as the mass has becoue QUrrE BLACK, or saturated rlth
the fixt black tlngingf, uo that 1t rrtll hardly flow any longer,
cease buralng any nore native upon i t.
r d o ao t kaow that thie proc e s s h a s e v e r b e e n t rie d , but r
thlnk the subJeet wourd norr, wlthout d.oubt be a FrxED EEPAR
suLPEURrs;but 1t is not ripe, nuch less regenerated..
TbETEfOTETO COMETO TEE TREASURE
WHICHIVILT BE TOUNDIN ITS
DEADcoRPsE. r nean to try the two followlng nethods.
 The Flrs t .

Cover tU" ! w:tth a well heat,ed.I1d and raise tfre A gently

\)
and graduallyr l-n order to try whether the nass rvill become first
A
iTHrrEr and by continulng the L\ , afterwards YELLolt/ and RED or

of a DEBP 0RANGECOLOUR.
n
Th e / \should not be so fierc e a s t o c a u s e a v lt rlf lc a t io n

o f the m atte r, No blast should b e u s e d .

If the mass passes througb tbe colours, i?HfTE, yELLOWand

R ED. I th in k we shall possess a f ix e d a n d re g e n e ra t e d h e p a r. *

* N ote
- fu the nargln reads "P ro b a b ly t h e s u b je c t e mp lo y e d b y

l.foses to destroy the Golden CaIf .rf

The Second.

Take tb e black m.assout of t le A , Iet it stand, to coo1,

and then lute a lid on the

in tb,e sane naBr]er as I have
[,
directed you i.n nakl-ng the GREEIIDRAG0N. tvheu the luting is
p e r fe ctr y a nd all the crevices we ll c lo s e d , wlt h a s n a ll h o le

o p ea ln th e lld to allow the rarlrie a Ato escape, ptace the

VJ.a tbe wlnd furnace, 1et the flre be Ilg,hted gradually and
\7
iacreased by degrees tiIl the heat be sufficLent to urake the

natter pass TffiOUGE THE COLOURSwhlch nay be exarnined fron tlne

to ttne by putttrng a red hot wlre through the cover.

 tlJhen the deep orange or a red colour is obtained, let the

A*o o u t o f l tse l f.

If by thts Brocess we obtain a RED tiaging itr, now united

t o tbe indestructlble concentrated radical hrrnld:Ltyr or fountain

o f all nature, we nust try whether lt is FUSfBLE and INGRESSTVE

o r a o t.

If tt ls f would take J part s o f 1 t t o 1 p a rt of puree and

nelt then fn a , lt would then certa1-nly be a genuine
! ".od
t lnctur e .

But if J-t is not fusiblel and cotrsequently not ingressive.

f would nelt it w'1th Glauber's VfTRUMSILICIS PER @ alCnffsuTul,t,

described somewhere ln hi-s Philosophical Furaaces. Of Vltrun

Si3.ices Alcallsatum he says that it purifles and 61ves lngress

innediately on tbe flrst fusion.

If our nrass is fuslble, it w1II prove ingresslve and sri1l

tben unlte vrj.th O , open it radically and raake it seninal and

di.ffusive.
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nl
lnq =
t@ E

T HE WORK OF

T HE

J E W IS H RA B B I
A Particular Labor, communicated to S. M. Belisario, by:

Rabbi IS A A c cALvo o f J e ru s a le m

Communicated to Ca1vo by a Rabbi at Constantinople

The process wa s writ t e n in g o o d ,

old Hebrew wi t h p o in t s .

TRANSLATED BY:

b.Tggq,$ q,s@ffi|
, ffi|.A.
 TEE

WORK

OF

THE JEIJ1TSHRABBI.

A Particurar Labor, conrilunicated to s. M.

Bellsario, by Rabbi Isaac Calvo o f Jerusaleuro

Comnualcated to Calvo by a Rabbi at Con-

stantinople.

The P rocess was wr it t e a in g o o d o 1 d He b re w

with points.

Taken from the note b o o k s o f S . B a cs t ro n M. D,

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I. ra one pound or sooa\Fnade rnto by dissorving

V,
gradualrr 4 or ! ouncesof crude therein, you are to dis-
Q)C
solve 5 112 ounces of a GOLDMARCASfTEfinely powd,ered..
2. r n 1 Iib of good po"" lF a rs s o lv e rs o u n c e s o f f in e O .
3. fa another pound of t h e \ 7 d ls s o lv e 5 ounces of
pu r ifl ed
v-v
(J fih,ea each is
" " r"
pe rf e c t ry
' d ls s o rv e d , d e c a n t t h e s o l-
T
utlons and unite then 1n a rooay dlgestion glass, w-ith a long
n e ck, wh ich shut close.

Dlgest lt for a week la a nost gentle warnth, so that you

can on ly feel lt cosfortably wa rn t o t h e h a n d -- (s a y ia a t e n -
pe r a tur e of 8O degrees, )

The n distl11 off the acid g e n t ly , u n t il t h e re s ld u u n ls le f t

pe r fectl y dry.

Wash lt out vl.th warm rai .n and contlaue wash-in6 and

-tV,
ed ,ulco r a tl ng it until tue pcon e s off p e rf e c t ly t a s t e le s s , then
Y
dry it in a bason in a sand heat.

Th ,e d ried mass nust be co p e lle d wit h le a d , , a n d the above

pr o p o r ti on s rnill yeild about lO o u n c e s o f f in e g o 1 d . of 24 caro ts.

Ren a rk s ;

The success depends on the Ma rc a E lt e ; Ca lv o s a j-d t , h e g o ld

m a r ca si.te was sold cheap at C o n s t a n t in o p le , and used for nean
pu r p o s€ s. ile took it to be a re d c a la min a re s . It wa s v e ry
pondercus.

Crude red calaminaris is called gold marcasite by the o1d

chenists and rnetallurgists. f t is a Zink ore, and p e rh a p s E a s t

India Zinir itself would answer.

9
Becber also calls native + -o f ro n r Smyrna a gold narcasite.
J

ON ZINK.

Zlnk vas probably THE FfERY DRAGONof l.t0RASDE RESPUR, who

was a contenporary and an lntinate friend of DR. WINTHROP,who

enploys tbe same ftgure 1n his IREIIAEUSPHILALETII.0,,calling hi.s

subject, th,e FfERY DRAGOIItwo or three tines. In page ?5 be

6ays tryet i.t has a resencblance to goldfr and ealls it OUR GOLD.

llenke1s Pyrotologia 1s worthy of perusal on th1's account.

7.Lnk wben ln fusioa has the property of exi.bitlng the sane

Ene r a ld colour that gold doe s - a p ro p e rt y possessed by none of

the o th.er neta1llc substance s , a n d t h e re f o re f re n a e u s s a y s f t it

has a resenblance witb O . It Zinl< is therefore called the flery

d,ragon, while O is called the RED LIOI{, THE RED tvtAN,TEE Kllfc.

Tbe author of ALCIIYMIADENUDATA,a Count of the gertran Enplre

relates fron hle osu knowledge an experinent which deserves atteat-

1 o n , a a d whlch was repeated b y a n o t h e r a u t h o r wb o c o n c e a le d h ls

 4

real nane and publlshed his works under that of AB INDAGIIIE,

i ,8 , TIIE EIIQUIRE R,or FROME NQ UI RY . T h e y b o t h a f f irm t h is :

ttLi'nl.{,I-s a wonderfu} subject. lVhen j-n filings i t axoalgaaat e s

quickly and kindly with pure , even cold, Berely by rubbing

the two together in a glass mo rt e r. lT h e n t h e is s u f f ic le n t ly

loaded with zi.nk put the a a a lnto a g la s s re t o rt wh lc h b u ry

deeply i-n saad and dlstill the runaing f rom the zj.nk lnto a

r ece lve r half filled with T h e z ln lr that remains behind wl 11

V.
be like white ashes. Dry the nercury and sqneeze it through

Ie a the r .

Amalganate the sane d with a fresh quaatlty of zink

Y "r"rn 'r
fl l i ag s (lf you heat the llass rn o rt e r t h e E E E will b e s o o n e r

nade). D istlll aO" Ioff as b e f o re a n d p re s s it t h ro u g h ] e a t h e r.

I r e p eated thLs operation

+ 4 t rn e s (s a y s t h e Co r. r, not f t h e

Enplre), and tben found that by evaporatlng a sna1l quantlty

the r e o f i n a sllver spoon, ove r a c h a rc o a l f lre , that t h e ln s ld e

of th e sp oon waa as finely gl I t a s it c o u ld h a v e b e e n wf t h Q

ltse1 f, only that the gildlng h a d n o t s o d e e p ly p e n e t ra t e d ln t o

the po r e s of tfre ) , belng a v o la t ile a n d n o t a f lx e d go1d.

Tbi.s experinent ls of the f lrs t c o n s e q u e n c e , a s lt opeas

one of the darkest passages in IREIIAEUSPHILALITHES Secrets

Re ve a le d , aad furnishes us at o n c e , wit h v e ry llt t le la b o u r or

exp e n a e , w1th a hlgbly anlnate d S o p iric I rr.

f
 AB INDAGINE says trl adrise you to prepare a golden net for

tbls phtrlosophical blrd.tl

By thls it appears that t h e P b llo s o p h e rs - v o la t lle , ln c o r-

po r e a l nercurial O lies con c e a le d ia t h e n e rc u rle s o f a ll the

metals. Uink 1s nothing but a coagulated MffiCURIUS METALLORUM,

rhich ln lts prinltlve state was a mercurial or arsenJ cal vapour

in the nlnee - then becameO{ and lastIy ARGENTVIVE, the natter

p a a slve or body of all the n e t a ls .

Ilence we have every reason to believe that such an HIGHLY

ANrr\IATEDMERCURIUSAINCI, strongly lnpregnated, rlth the I{ALE

METALLfC SPERM, the volatlle pbllosopnic Q , ls aLone sufflcient

for tbe production of tbe LAPIS, and thJ.s f belLeve ls the short

w ay of lr enaeus P hllatetba, wlt h o UR O in O URU . p . 6 |. r ? j, ??.

fH
Anoth,er questi.on arises here, nanely, wbethet VfVE aI-
" !|
ti"
read,y charged ,fiLth volatlle , obtai.aed fron Zj.nl<, better
O "
solvent for common pure Q for the work of Berahard Count Tri-
H
Yesan than a (...) or argent rrithout
viver. purlfi-ed otherwise the
+ ^\
addltLon of that volatlle t/t ?
S. B.

I{ete- Ilere is a aote ls the nargla that seens to ne to be

ver y l nterestJ'ng- ttOae ton of Z ln k , t o 9 t o n s o f wa t e r, 11/2

tons of o11 of Vltriol prod.uces 22OOOcrrbic feet of llydrogen

gaasr - Thlch ls f tlnee li.ghter tbaa atnospherlc alr.rtD.![.

 TH R E E P R OCESSES F O R O BT AI NI N G

Filn e
rwe Fg.Iye
F R OM
O AND
E NIGMA TICALL Y REPRE SENTEDUNDER THI S CHARA C T E R

B Y: B A R O ND E WE L L IN G
EXTRACTED FRO M HI S O PUS

M
MAGO CABBALISTICU
HAMBURG l7 35 - 4t o

fir.w.
TB&fr.TAAOfrO,TA(Dtr,
t797
 2

The F ig u re .

Obeerve here the lngenuity of the forner Phllosophers. The

trtrangle used as the character to express tbe FIRE of Nature,

lncloses the character used for Nltre, dilated 1n an Uni-

O,
versal acid t 4-,1 to be fixed. and kept BELOW. fU" -{- too is
I
r.
represented as havlng decended fron above '. l.j . The exterlor
' -t-
llaes are also the symbollcal nark for Sulphur.

T h e w ho l e h ye ro g l yp h l c e xpr esses the two subjectsQ""a

f.

The Theory of t h e S u b J e c t s .

De We1llngs Theory of his subJects ougbt to precede his prc-

ce sse s; for they llluetrate ea c h o t b e r. E e s a y 6 in h ls O p u s

l''lago Cabballsticua, p. 574 :

ro c e e d s

th e fi r st matter o f the S tone , o u t o f which the sophlc 1S

extr a cted ,, wherein is forned e v e ry thing that tbe wise Inen look

a ft ef,. (^)

+
-
2. Out of alone and ou t o f \.-/ alone ; n o t h in g useful to
T
-f- I
our art can be p ro duc ed . Our Stoae n u s t b e composed of BOTI{ }IAfURES.
 3

t. Two different palpabl e n a t t e rs , p o s s e s s lu g p ro p e rt ie s

CONTRARY
TO E4.CHOTHER, and yet proceedlng FROMOI{E ROOT, are

required to our $rork.

The bne (
A
4. the othel (
) rs MERcuRrAt, ts sulpnuR-
O t) )
EoUs. Tbe one (O) the other ( A)
rs sALII\rE, is glty. The
,' ( ) is sor,alf rheone ,
le conbustible ln the A
+ 4,
partlng easlly wlth lts lnward prln-
,
c 1 p l e , t b e o th e r (O) i s vhite aad absolutely lnconbustlble.
(tor though volatlle you cantrot burn it by neltiag lf you avold
t h e f u l m e n .) B OT IIa re o f E ASYFUSION. One ( :F) ls ter estr ial,
for it c o n e s o u t o f th e tb,e other f L" be-
V, Ol ".t""tial
cau6e lt descends frone heaven. The one ( ) is tbe fNfERIUs,
A
(in tbe Tabula Snaragd,lnaEernetls.) tne otE" ( ts tbe
O)
SUPffiIUS" Tbe one ( ? I proceeds fron the Solar, the other
-r-
( ) fron tbe Luaa" '""y"; but BOTII HAIJ-E THEIR ROOTSfN TIIE
O
i-
l *r t h o u g h th e y a re ca u B h t ln the V . ( per fectly tr ue.)

Both ate represented under the fi.gures of two Serpents, ONEWITIT

n
lvlNcs, (thez| ) and rlrE orHEr (o) vnrsour ,d',rNcs,
but i"rucg
-l- \r/
MOREDREADFUL
as lt appears in practice.

The First E nble n a t ic a l P ro c e s s .

( p. 5? 5 o f De 'rrJelllng. )

Cut off the tail o f the DOUBLEEcaley Snake. (P e rv ig ll ecce

 4

Draco squan'is crepttantibus homens! Ovld.) wh:lch hides her bead

r't7
ia redlVf . ThLs Snake you wl1l flnd in f1e1d.s whi ch abound in

humidlty, and in green neadows, where she delights to be.

As soon a.s you have cut off the tal1 fron the stiaklng body,

tear also of f lts head by tb,e porver of Vulcan

n
( Z-J ) for you w"iII

fi-nd that the Saake is fixed and ls not afraid of 4-J.

n
Contl-nue to cut off the polnt of the ta1I as well as you ca!.

Thea Join the head to the tai-} j.n such a naaner that tbe hldden

hunldity that ls about the bead nay depart, united to the hun-

ldI.ty of the talI, ln order th.at the Dlvine nedicJ.ne nay becone

vlslble and be nanlfested, because it is the radical hun1dity.

Increase or nultiply, i-n th:is rad1cal hunl.d5.ty, the Solar

and Celestlal powers, by the power of the Tail, whlch has been

drawu fronr the firnameat, and you wllI see how the uatter or the

terrestrlal powers becone nagaetical; so that the head of the

Snake beglns to erect ltself aad to Llve - and lts open tbroat

w111 become so voracious tb,at it vrill be alnost lnpossible to

satiate it; and 1t rrfII always be ready to devour lts own talI,

though of a conslderable size.

At last you w111 perceive that tbe Saake rril1 becone pregaant,

aad 1111 brtng forth the heavealy ch1ld or tb,e Tlncture.

 The Second Proc€ss.

( p . 576.)

the place wbere our natter is found ls a n:lneral caver ot

a stoney Saturniae nlnera; known to the rlse only - though known

by the cornmonpeople accord'ing to its nean value.

Know therefore that the black Crows are connonly found anong

o1d walls, wbere they 11ke to f1y about; but th,e Toads are met

wlth ln loany narshy placesn in sti.nklng Dungh:ills and la sub-

terraaeous fat caves.

Near the Toad and tbe Crow, which feed upon dead carcases,

you w111 fi.nd our natter: therefore we saXr that fron tbe great-

est venom we nake our nedlcine.

It ls truly ronderful, that out of poisoaous urlneral bodlesn

wblch have their begi.nntng fron th,e coldest Chaosn the Child of

tbe Sua I-s generated, aad, that out of Vr" nade \- out of

p o lso n a medlcine, apd out o f De a t h , lif e .

Cause that out of the Raven rray proceed an Eagle, and fron

the Toad a tion; whlch w111 happen lf you whlten the fatness of

the EARTIIby lts own graduated notloa of tbe SpJ-rlt, proceedlng

fron the Dew of beaven.

The belly nust not be too nuch d1-luted: brlng lt to a cl,ear

lTAlER, whereln the soft and teader fenale is washed untll she

ls whlte - wblch fenale is very deslreous after the Red husbund,

a s m a tte r is desireous after f o rn .

U n l t e a n d p re p a re th e m naked: nlx pr ittr V, and digest

lt when the b,eavens are serene and c1eaf.

Tbe IIUPTIALS must be celebrated ln the house of Na t u re , and

the unlonr or nlxi-ag them, r c u s t b e re p e a t e d d iv e rs t lme s , in

order th at the conception nay be more certain!

Th e vessel of the wise aen is our V . llle use two Vt,

to wcrk the qulcker.

Pay attentloa to what tb. e n a t t e r re J e c t s o r c a s t s o u t wh e n

you extr act the rednessl beca u s e t h e ma t t e r n a k e s a g re a t f ro t h

or ebulatlon. The ehortning of the work conslsts in eeperatlng

'lJllg e n t1y the foeces.

If you know how to separate thera rrith a PhJ.losophj.cal Seivet

you waat bardly anythi.ng e1se.

The Tklrd Proc € ss o

(p . ,77.)

DEW 0F ttrEAVEi{and FAT 0F T}IE EARTH, as nuch

Take CONGEATED

,a6 you like: griad and nnix thej-r bodl€sr and place then in a

we ll clo sed bed.

As they are externally c o ld a n d wit h o u t d e s ir€ ; irrit a t e them

w i th a n a l * n, that they noay be in f lane d , and that they nay

ye itd their spern, through t h e ir s e c re t u n lo n ; wh ic h s p e rm is a

 7

FUi,lEor EXIIAL.A.TIOTT,
whereia I-s iaclosed that Universal -rn- which

we geek and are in want of.

TLis -n- whJ.ch is congealed in the beforenentioned Fume or

Exhalation, cones over by drops - into the Receiverl &s & clear
!-t
transparent V ; and leaves behlnd our dryr fat, weakened, thirsty

L a toa l n the botton of the ves s e l.

G i v e h l n , to d ri n k, h i s ownV, uhich ls theV"f life;

aad return thi.s-Jl- to the Latoa which is in want of lt.

Let hl-n dri,nk a6 ofteu and as nuch untll he is saturated with

r_,:,
our epiritual V , and svells vlsibly.

After thls he nust be put j-n bed in his apartnent, tbat he

niy fall asleep, and that he nay transnute or change IIIS OltiN

FOOD, which is of a netallne nature, tbrough our llving by

V,
a go o d Digestioa.

'v{bat ls heterogeneous ls expelled by lnsensible transpirati.on,

like a sveat.

Be not surprlzed at seeing various colours on hls face I for

lt can be ao otherways, as our Vt" purifying, expelling aJ-1

external lnpurltlee, rvhich do not belong to its pure central

E sse n ce 6 , nor can they be cha n g e d t h e re u n t o .

You rJ-l1 see, while the superfluous sllny hunidity is expelledt

vari.ous Lnconstant colours, all volatile, except the pernanent

WHTTE.

But before you obtain the whlte you nust noti-ce a great nystery,
which conslsts in knowlng the tlne when the true conception takes

p la ce .

You nust know the nethod TO C00L Luna, that you nay find

TEE ffEAT of So1.

Wh e n your Laton is becon e wh it e re jo ic e , b e c a u s e in t h e wh lt e

the spirlts are flxed, and after that Latoa does not dread the

A longer, untlI be is bolled to tbe highest degree, with

"oy
a central red colour, and becones hJ.nself the blessed Stone, tlng-

ing all inferlor netals into .

O
If you can learn notblng frorn what f have here delivered

you are not to have this knorledge.

The matter of the Stone of the Phlloeophers and how to pro-

ceed therew'ith I have dj-ecovered nore p1a1nIy than f ought to

have done.

Are you lngenious you yi1I flnd here what you look for, but

lf you are of dul1 apprehension, I have then sald nothlng to you.

The E nd of the T b re e F ro c e s s € s r
 Dr . Bacstronr s Thoughts o n t h e p re c e e d in g P ro c e s s .

0n the F lrs t P ro c e s s .

rrCut off the tail of the double sealey Snake which hldes

its head in red, V.tt The Double scaley Snake is the Dragon

of ovtd 1. (T)"rc 4. De We1llngseens to hint here at a

,rr ". \L/ -F
Ee p a r 4 l ". n a d e w l th '0 tn the naaner r have poiated out ln
-r
ny Remarks on De la Brlers process. The head of the Snake 1s

the corroelve -f of both lngredients. Ehe Tail seerns to be the

bla ck fixed tingj.ng V o, a f t e r t h e c o n f la g ra t io u of tbe

$t" f t
iagredlents. I thj.uk that the Snake hldj-ng her head, in redv,
I
means that the -t- -fr- of is yet iu, the Hepar. The Hepar
17I
is a red -\f. I canaot explai-n what the Author means by the

Snake being FOUNDIN FIELDS AND l'fEADo'rTs.

rfAs soon a6 you have cut off tbe talI fron the stinklng bodytt

1. € . as soon as you have obt a ln e d t h e b la c k s e d ln e n t , o r f ix e d

"\
tinglngtVttfron the stinklng bod,yrr fron s wbich
-/ the HtrAn4)
-r
w be a d issolved stlnks very m u c h , t rt e a r o f f a ls o it s head, by

the power of Vulcan rrthat is by After obtalniag as nuch

r-t
black$from the HEPARas 1t w1lI^. yeild by solution. (see quo-

tatioa fron Stab,l in ny renarks on De Ia Brle) I would evaporate

the reltalalag solution to dryness, and then ln a ( drive the

uv A . You would have a fLxed, body renalning: for

* "r"t
 10

ttThe Snake is not afrald of A . tl

r r C o a tl n u e to cu t o ff th e poiat of the tall as well as you

carlr" let it me l t a n d p u ri fy ltself
the \7, in air "Aln
' r Tben
Y,
Joln the head to the ta1l ln such a manner that the hidden hun-
ldi.ty, whlch ls about the headr oay depart united urith the hun-

idity o f th e ta i l rrt th a t i s join aow your fixtO( whlch contained

tA Liln
tb.e head ot the beginnlag ln tbe EEPAR) to the
J-Jl-of
flxt tJ.aging\;F
-t , and theu nrJ.xlng the tso substances with a glass

rod or tobacco pipe sta1k, evaporate then 1a a china or glass

vessel placed in hot .'..'. , uatll the hidden bunidlty of the head

depart rl.th the hunJ.di-ty of the ta1t. In short evaporate the

two substances as nuch as tbey w111 bear, trln order that the

Dlvj-ne MedlcLne nay beeone vlslble and nanlfest, for it ls the

Rad-tca1 hunldi.ty.tt The black substance, coasistlng of the tlngtag

/\
Vof $u nlted to tbe Rad1c a l h u n ld 1 t y i. e . t o t h e f ire d a n d
'{-
alcalisei seena here to be tbe nearest rcatter of the Diriae
O,
I'ledl.clne.
ttfncrease or nultlply ln tbis RadJ.cal hunidlty the Solar aad

celestlal powersrt - €xpose your subJect now to the celestlal

lnfluences, and, let lt attraet fron tne 1 and the Stars, and
<J
your eubJect, already nagnetical 'rr111 become nore and nore so
n b y th e power of the tallr,, o r o f t h e f lx e d t i. n g f n g v u n it e d

to tbe Radlcal bunldJ-ty whlch gtves lt ingresslve poirer, ttwh:lcb

power has been drawn fron the flrraanent and you will see that the
 l1

natter or temestrlal powers have lndeed become nagnetlcal.

So far I think I uaderstand aad have explalaed tbls procesao

How tbe subJect ts to be brought to lts final perfection Baron

de WellJ.ng does not inforn us.

On the S ec o n d P ro c e s s .

fbls is the nost obecure process of the three.

ftllhe place where our natter is found ls a nrlaerar cave, a
quarryr rror a stoney saturnlae Mlnerarf probably Line stone in
the form otV/rtrnornr to the rise, thor krorn to the connon people
'T'
accordlng to lte mean value.n
frThe black Crore are connonly found anong old walls - the
toad 1n loany narshy placesft - The forner r tblnk neaDe
O, the
latter a fat or sous substanc e - tfllear the Toad and the Crow,

rho feed upon dead carcases you will find our natter.rl
Itcause tbat out of the Raven nay proceed aa Eagre, and from

tb,e Toad a Llonn rhlch rrlrr happen Lf you whiten the FatnesE of
17
the-!l'by lts own graduated notl-on of the splrlt, proceedlng
from tbe Den of heavenrt(1.e. fron
O.1
trBy the fatness of theVt" neant -I. . The grad,uated,notj-on
-T-
of the Jl- eeens to blnt at the attractlon aad lnfluence; but
th,e passage le dark aad r do not yet understand the renalnder
o f th e p r oce6s.
 12

0n the Third Proc€ss r

r r Take congealed Dew of h e a v e n a n d f a t of the$, as nuch

as you xril1r grlnd and n:ix their bodles, and place then ln a well

clo se d bed. tl

At the tlne in which our Author wrote MAI,INA,fron its belog

gathered fron th.e leaves of plants, was belleved to be congealed
Dew; but he cannot lcean Manna. r beleive he lntenu"Ohere;
for fron Dew, Rala, or suow r have always obtained, genulneQ.

T b e f a t o f tU e $ i s co a sequentlyA. Gr j.ndlng the bodies ex-

-t-
cludes marrnat but agrees very rvell with our two brlttle subjects.
r r ln a r ell closed bedtt nean s ln a g la s s we ll lu t e d .
rr3.s they are externally cold and 'rltb,out desire irrl-tate them

witb a nale ftre that they nay be lnflaned and ye11d their spern.tf

r" externally cold, and very nuch so: by the r"reA t thlnk
Q
he ueans tbe Sun, the actlon of wtricb w111 be necessary rto nake

then yel1d thelr sperm, whlch 1s a fune or exhalatiou whereln

l.s contained that un{versalJ1- we seek and are in want of.tl

Though thls proceas has a great harnony wlth tbe flrst and
partly llrustratee lt yet iu some reapects the node of operation

1 e v e r y d l ffe re a t - It l o o ks as lf he ntx"d( Dr na 4ia nost

\L/ -+-
subtil povderr put tbenn 1n a glase body, with an Alenblc or head,

lu ted th e Jolnts aad put the b o d y 1 n t h e s u n rs b e a t . It ie p e r-

haps possi.ble that a gentlle nertlng or florlng nlght tbus take

 13

place at the top of the ntxture rvith a snall fuluan, and, sup-

poslng the Su:r to have power enough, a nost subtil fume or ex-

halatlon nay very llkely proceed from the nixture and come over

l nto tb e receiver. The proc e s s h o we v e r is c u rlo u s .

Glauber says (f belleve where he speaks of the llquor

\l-l
fl:d.) 'fTaketbe ftxed.A", & orQ, put it in a gtutrtft ,
pout the corosive -n- "tQthrough the tube of the ,
f n
one drop after another, which causea a dreadful hlsslng and reactlon

o f th e two coatraries ( a lc a 1 j-, n a le a n d f e u a le n h e a t a a d

+and
..4
cold, / \ and radical b,unidity) until a subtll ITEITE FU]IE rises,

whj.ch wltl cone over lato a recelver if l-he ls placed in

ln
t
ooottover a lanp heat. He says that thls subtll has wonderful
-Jr-
propertles: he took some fi.ne nould and put salad seeds into 1t:

he thea inbibed, tfref,wlth tbis-n-- aad put the dish in whJ'ch

the nould was over a gentle heat, and in 2 ot 3 hours the seeds

cane up and produced vislbly. It Thi.s process aad tbe result of

1t encourages ne to think that I explain the ttrird process of

D e i Ye lling rightly; for that t h e u n iv e rs a lA n a y Ue s p e c if le d

1n such a fune as ls spoken of above f canaot doubt.

rrThls whlch ls congealed in tbe before nentloaed fune
-fi-
or exbalatlonn comes over by drops lnto the Receiver, as a very

clear transpareot !, and leaves behlnd our DRY, FAT, WEAKENED,

TIIIRSTY LATON, 1n the botton of the vessel.rr Thle Laton can be

no tbia g but the FIX E D, tstA C K , T I NG I NCV o f t h e 4 o o rre d to tbe

-1-
 14

, alcalised gradually by the gent,le and contlnual superficial

fu.]-trination o f the Dragon.

nG l ve lrin to drlnk his o wn V , wh ic h i-s t h e p o f l1 f e and

return thl.s-.r.L- to the taton whlch ls in want of lt.tt lVe must

pour back the sane-0- upon tbat which rennains in the retort.

I would d,o tbis gradually, inbibing tir"$and gently drftng it

ea ch tl m e, until thef or la t o n b e c o me s f u lly e a t u ra t e d wit h

r':t
the ! of l1fen for he ls to dri.nk as OFTEI{and as much, unt1I

h e i .s saturated. with our eplrlt u a lp " rA s we lls v is lb ly .

As the stronger generally and naturally overcones the weaker,

uo t no r e than 1/3 or 1/2 at t h e s p irit u a l V, in p ro p o rt io n

to the Laton, should be glvea to hin at one inbibltation: other-

w l se l t w111 not be able to re c e iv e o r re t a ln it s o wn v o la t lL e

sp lr 1 t.

Dige stion.

riAfter this he nust be put in bed. in his apartneat, that he

nay falI asleep, and that be nay change his own food, which j.s of

a ne talIl c nature, tbrough ou r liv ln g v b y a g o o d , d ig e s t io n . rt

Pu t th e ful1y saturated, swe lle d a n d n o ls t V in t o a D1 g e s t ln g

glo b e l lu te it properly with a n B a ln (? ) s t o p p e r, s e t lt in a

ge n tl e h eat over a larp (i.n 9 O o r 1 0 0 d e g re e s ) a n d d lg e s t , and

ao do u b t but there w111 be re a c t lo n , f e rn e n t a t lo n , a n d c o n p le t e

pu tr l fa ctl on and regeneratlon ln d u e t ln e . A ll thaf f o llo ws is ,

I tldnk, pla1n enougb.

 A THO U G H T

of

S A TU R D A Y N IG HT I I I / 2
PAS T 8. 6th of A P R IL l 8 O5
 A Thought of Dr. B . o n s a t u rd a y n lg h t l/ z
past 8. 5tU of A pril | 805.

Ru.ulnatln6 on the process of Dr. l.tynslcht and on the brown

Red 01I of Goodrin Brorn, whlch t1n6ed fi ,oro O .
Dr. Petrj.eus la hls very learned preface on tbe Works of

Baelllus varentlnus, of tbe Hanburg Edltlon l74o ln 2 volr safs!

rt ls ualversalry knowu at TaANKFORT

on the Rlver Mayn tbat l,
years agor at tbe house of gn Apothecary, Mr. Saltzwedel, several
p r oJe ctl on s have been nad,e'rtth a d e e p ly t ln g e d b ro wa Re d 0 1 1 ,
ln fo r n a flulda, on { arla , s o n e ln n y p re s e n c e a n d t h a t o f
F
6otse of tbe uost respectable wltnesses at FRAIKFORT.

Tbls Red flxt g ogwas nade of phosphorus; I have snelled

aad tasted lt, lt snelled very acld like burnt phoephorus, and

tasted rike Barson captlve, but !!ore preasant. The possessor

G. Brorrn had taherlted tbi-s Ttncture fron bis Master of tbe aane
of MR. ADAIIS; whose nanuscrlpts chlefly taugbt tbe elaboratloa
o f El l nto phosphorus. r have n y s e rf a f t e rwa rd s , wh e n r u e t
agala wlth the possessor at MUNSTERrN t{lEsrpEALrA, transnuted
t o r 6 0 gr. of conuon qulcks ilv e r wlt h 1 1 d ro p s o f t b ls o 1 l,
J
lnto noet pure and tender O .
r procured nyself the , the E , wax and borax, that r
V
nlgbt not decelve nyserf; The possessor Mr. Brown poured I drops
of hle Tlnctural 0ll on Ey btt of waroed, wax, as he wouLd not
gi-ve the pbi.al out of hi-s handsrand I eavelopped nry 4 dr. into

ur y wa xl I laid a foundatlon o f B o ra x in t o n ly De w E , a 4 of
4
p upon it, then ny plll of wax, and a covering of Borax agaln,
+
covered the S , and nade lt becone of a brlght heat, and 1n

ab o u t 2O nia., the fixation lnt o @ wa s e f f e c t e d , aad ny bead

of Q w as nost glori.ously beau t if u l, and soft and tender and

weighed a Dutch Ducat.

l{hoever considers or has experieaced how klndly the phosphorus

or tbe Acid of El attacks O , and has read. what Mr. Dippellus,

who knew nore than wrlting on Alcheny, has wrltten concerning

t rJ.II be forced to a11ow a possibillty fron thi-s fouadatlon;

therefore we aaXr even i-f we bad not this part fresh 1n our t!€D-

oryr that there le a tAPfS tuYII.fALIS as well ae MINERALIS and

METALTICUS,because the Splrit of God and of Llfe is ln all Thiags;

ALL fS FULL Otr''IIFE. (Dr. Petrleous wrote thl,s ano. 1738.')

l,Iy flrst thought concerning Dr. Mynslcbtf s process.

Mynsicht d.issolves
$
in Sea \/ r by gently simmerlngr untll
?
the RED MAN appeared, who dI.d hofd in the rlght hand a Trlangle

with a Cross, but in the left tbe Eye of the World wtth a snall

lJ.ne thr o u gh lt (vide Myuslcb t rs nsc.)

Thi.s Red Eepar {,s made rJ.th Sea I , cannot be obtalned

-f
per vlan Stccam ia the therefore Mynslchts nethod aad conn-
E,
unlcatLon 1s roaderfully conclse and lngenlous. Remenber now

that the rfi of El attacks O tclnAty, and recollect that $ aad

?
 3

6 is PRTMUM
ENs O
l{ow I reagotr thus:

The Mlcrocoam resenbles the l,lacrocosm, TEE EARTIL fn the room

of the V of the Oceau, nake use of the sea of the llicrocosn.

Methodus proceedendl.

corlect your norning [l I before brea]rfast, and aone else,

and ret lt stand to settre 1n a bottle, and ln 2 or J weeks tlne
1t becones Red, do thJ.e every nornlng, untll you bave f, 5, or
6 quarte to begin with. pour thls collecteA El fron lts sliny
sedlneut, and ftrlter 1t. Keep tbe red filtered fll fron dust.
The EI sl.ll ferment, but tbat ls ln our favour.
l{or take good pure l{atlve 4, or fine floree sulphurous,
+t
lf you take Natlve, reduce lt to a noEt subtil lnpalpable 6 ,
lt ts ny oplnlon tbat the fJ.owers, whlch ls a pure A, subllned
-r
froo Natl've A , r1ll anawer our intentlons. [ake l/2 ovtce and
t
epread it on a ehallor broad chlaa plate or dish; pour sone of

you r Re d , S tale, f1ltered, colle c t e d E l u p o n lt ; so aB to cover

lt a flngere deep, and evaporate the El by the sunr s Rays, untll
lt renalae Llke boney. rf you pretend to do thls on the Top
of the bouael and get norter, duet or Rala lnto lt, you wtll
spoll Jrour operatlon.
Pour the saue quantlty of your Red Stale El upon the boaey
 4

De Massa, as before, 60 as to cover lt a fiagers high, evaporate

again by the Sua Beans, and repeat this 20 or ,0 tlnes, but pre-

vent snoke, dust or ra:Ln nlxing wlth it, by covering 1t, when

necessary with blottJ-ag paper, or taklng lt lndoors.

ThLs operatlon nust be continued untll Mynslchts Red Man

ap p e a r s ia sightl i,€. until a we ll o p e n e d Re d He p a r ls o b t a in e d ,

by neans of tbe l,tlcrocosnical fixt fuslble sa1t, which is not

Io st h e r e , 1t ls only the use le s s p h le g ma t b a t e v a p o ra t e s .

Iou nay for a certalaty believe that thls A, whlch ls Pri--

-|-
num Ens Aurl, w111 becone redder aad redder, nore flxt and nore

fusible; The operatlon should be contlnued until tbe Red Hepar

nelts ki.ndl.y oD a Red hot Lanella of ) , wltbout funing, but

this fixt, fuslble Eepar cannot tlnge yet, read what DE LA BRIE

says. Now let ua conpare this our Eepar .$, with that of Mynslcht
'1.
or DE t.A, BRfE.

MYNSfCETTSEepar contalns the Universal Lunar lJi.t fuy, the

f
unlversal nineral ln the r and the black fix'" ttnelne ,
+ $ Y
n e n t l o n e d b y S T A F I p a g e 1 6 1 , 162.

In our Bepar we have the aalnal V t" the f of El , the

f
nLaeral {f in the S, , whlcb t s tbe MrITERAL
AcENTin the ntnes,
+
the black flxd tlaglng{7 of A , nentioned by STAHL, and nore
?
over most fixt and wonderfully fusible l,li.crocosnlcal g , nor do

we loose tbe pbosphorlc prluclple by this our truly natural pro-

cees. I belleve that our Eepar i-s superior to that of Myuslcht

and De La Brie.
 our RED MAN nust gradually increase in Red.ness, fuslbillty
and flxity, by the corporlflcation of trGf;T in the subject, grad-
ua 1 ly b e conlng corporiftea A, becaus" A ls n o t h ln g e ls e b u t
trGgr concentrated by notion . The contlnually evaporating phregna
of the El n w1l] forn here a snalr artlflcial atnosphere which
w111 assist to eonceatrate tbe tlght and generated, Eeat, so as
to corporlfy lt 1n your subjectr.0, vmr HoMocENrousMAGNET,con-
sid e r lt welll

whilst tbe gradual fixatlon of the I of tbe Microcosulcal

sea penetrates tue centrally, flxes 1t, w"ithout loosing fus-
$,
ibllltyr and uithout burning or d,estroylng one si.agre necessary
quallty.

rt nusL becone a Hatter contalniag the fixt tfr tur

Aeous
+
MTNERALAGENT, conbined rtth the phosphorlc + , (wtrich kindly
attacks @ , says Dr. Petraeus) the black fLxt tinglng nou
$,
becones Red and A y, and tbe exrenely fixt and woaderfully fus-
ible CENTREof the Mlcrocosnlcal sea. rn fact: rou will positively
and truly obtala a flxt, fuslble, blood, Red Hepar $,.
-l-
And wb,at do you waat nore for opening
O cEIvrRAtLyin the
% ' to convert lt lnto A BRrrrLE, spERMATrc
O, ovm rrNcruRED
BY PRTMUM
ENs AuRr, by Light, Eeat, rf< and A r r know r an
right as nuch as Myasicbt or De La Brie.

Do we not here latrod,uce and incorporate THE LrGgT, THE FATHER

0F AtL cOlOuRs .ANDTrllcruREs lnto prinun Ens Auri or uarlpe ?
O
whea your flxt Eepar nelts wlthout funing, nelt i.t wlth flne
 O tn a V , tbe proportlon nust be learned, perhaps 1 part
of jp*V be able to conquor 2 or t parts of O n so as to con-

vert it l.nto an opake brlttle Massa, whlch is the specificated

L.P.

Thi-s nust be led or introduced into Inferior mercurlal netals

by an honogenious ned1um, which is U.

f
1n ASTIMOLE'STHEATRU}.tCEEMICU}IP. 412,
IIIOvTfOl].ow ANONYI,IUS

415. Add pur1-fled U SraAually 1n such a heat as keeps the red

f
brittle O fn gentle fusloa, aad the U *iff becone a Red, fixt,
++
fusi.ble, tinglng -ii-, whicb will tlnge 72 ,4 and I into @

Tbis $i"f ne&tum !1111 go rauch further ln tingJ.ng the nercuri.al

f
netals, than to proJeet the Red brittle O i-nneeiately upon the

inferior metals. To nake the Red tinglng #, is best done la

The sane Process

Can certainly be done witb good pure crude 6 ; becaus. E

contalns PRIHIIMENS AURI trore perfectly, as belng- $ana
JU- - .
t
+
than Proceed exactly ln the same way, and your d
"or*oa $.
'f-
w111 turn Red, and you w'111 obtaia tbe samer r&X a stlll Superior

flrt, fusl,ble, Sulphureous, rcercurlal, Eepar Antlnonie, which

wtlt produce the same and even greater effects on @ and U t

+
Thi'nk here of PONTANUS.
o

f confes" conuron have THE REi'IOTE

Mineral , the
l" f "" Y
but j.n 3 n" bave fgg IIE.InERi{eta}lic or Marcasitlcal ,
+, I
i1 u / l f ( a n d th e re n o te n i n e rd + in its besides) .
1|
Coacernlng Multiplicatlon ln Vlrtue.

Tbe fixt Hepar, wbether fron { or fron 6 , can be desolved,

+
volatlllsed and subtlllsed, and refixed!

I st. l, le t h o d .

ff it uri1l attract the Luna" U fron the Mooa and, becone

+
noist and poppy, exslccate it and refix 1t on tbe Sun, repeat this,

untLl, belng fully satlated, it w111 attract no longer but renalns

dry.

2nd. Me t h o d .

Inb ib e it sparlngly wlth Re d , S t a le , f ilt e re d E l, u n t il 1t

becones like pap, hasty puddlag or brlck layers norter; exsiccate

and refix 5.n the Sun; repeat tbls 5, 4, or 5 or 5 tlnes, but it
nust fllally nelt wlthout fuulng.
 B

Nor concernJ.ng GoodrrrinBrowurs phosphorlc,

Solar, Tlnglng 0i1.

Nos we have 2 eubJects to conslder of, v12., I prlnun eaa
a u r ,l
+or 6.
2 cgrnnron flne O .

Procesg nlth prlnun Ens, Elthout O o

Lay a plpe of pboephorus 1n a Baucer aad cover lt ultb falr or
fresh fil. Cut lt ctth a knlfe lnto enaLl bttts.
cb,oose a hot clear flne day, rhea th.e sun has great porer; place
a sbaLlor A proof vessel, or the botton kaocked,out of a g,

1n the sunr and provlde a convex glass of 5 or 6 inches dianeter

aad 4 or , Lncbee deep.

Lav t+of A ln subtll 6 , or crude E ,o subtil

+ t
orr your eballow veesel, put a sua1l b1t of trlhospboruson the top,

Eet it on 4 by coLlectla6 aad uov1n6 the solar Raysl by your

corrvex glaesl go tbat tbe focue farls upon or ignltes the phoe-
phorue, rhtch rrtll bura rttb a great flane, and nelt the A or
{-+
tb e O.
rt_ 1111 not be all coaeuned, fron the A a red or brack nolet

f be left, fron tne 6 a.t{ot. s"L". Add Bore A o"

"tlt
+f
nore Q r rhlch agaln burn wltb a snall blt of phoa-
pborusr uatil the renalaiag Hasea encreaaee to a sufflcl.ent enaLl
quaatlty.

The bottou of, tbe sraaually becoulag lateuse].y hot, you

I

*'* Ihls ltord, .indeclpherable ln the qanuscrlpt,

wi-l.l only have to proJect one blt of phosphorus after another

on the Massa, and the burnlng glass w111 becone un[ecessary.

By ad.ding gradually a Iltt1e Eore A or crude 6 , and destroylag

+
that by snalI blts of phosphorus, contlnul.ng so unt1l a ettck

or 2 of phosphorus Ls burnt upon lt, lt ls possible that a BRO\W

FIXT UIICEAI{GINGMASSArenains, which should be trled on O Uy

Beans of nore pb,ospborus burnt on thls mas6ar, u.j.xed urith a snal1

q u a n tl ty of Leaf or flled O, o r mig b t b e t rle d ln a s n a ll V io
a furnaco.

OR

Melt t $, I,e . 2 0 g r. of flne O r itn tt or 12 $fot"

ttllCf ao lnto a thinly flowing black naasa, whi.ch powd.er
" E
flnely. Melt and destroy a part of thls black E , say l/Z a

, by throring snall blts of phosphorus upoa 1t, set A to

3
the first by neans o f your co n v e x g la s s r a n d c o n t ln u e t h i. s o p e ra t io n

for a while ( S. B. at noon vhen the Sua is in its hiehest Meri dlan)

unf1l a stick of phosphorus h a s b e e n b u rn t o n 1 / 2 a q of the

*
black/rrlt ewith O .
lfay re aot b,ope that the Resldlun or @ wh:Lch nust be fixt

and loaded wlth oxygent w111 be a brown uactuous massa, wbicb

wtIl nelt like war, whilst hot but be a brlttle brown Red substance,

Eben coldr aud nay by llqulfactlon by night and exslccatlon in the

 10

Sua, becone a brown Red tingln6 0i1, li.ke that of Goodrin Brownt

snelling like burnt phosphorus and tasting l1ke balson Captive.

( see at the end. )

If pbosphorus can be fernented xrlth O , depend on it, tbat

tinging phospborlc oil can be obtalned.

r
The black Solar aatlnonlal nartlatt*ll 1n flne $ should be

gradually destroyed and fed vith buralng pbosphorus upon ltt

untl} tbe massa becomes deep red, unctuousr and oily, vhich nay

be llqui.fled by the Moon at f, and f,1xed by the Sun at noon.

It night be nultiplied by relterating the same processr addi-ng

fresh Sotar 44 , and more phosphorus.

S . B a cs t ro m,

Th e ta ste of B alsom Captivi p ro c e e d s f ro n t h e c e n t ra lly opened

O , united to the fj-xt phospbor: + o

HF. Dlppelius was privy Counsellor of tbe King of Dennark.

t.A,SlfE,LASHIVRE,or DE IAATZT he that saidr tflf you dlgest

conmorrbut very pure $ *itfr Q tor a sufflclent length of tlme

f
in the rlght degree of Eeatr you nust at last obtaiu tbe Tincturet

shetber you rrilI or not, C. Eella 6ays tbe same.

E1s snall Treatlse, I nean tasne or De Laatz ls presented

la tbe 4tb volune of the Theatrun Chynlcara la Latint in 5 vol;

whlch you have (the word ls scratched out); Thls I discovered

 lt

l ately fr om another author who e s t e e n e d , h ln , Dr. P e t ra e u s b e f o re

neati.oned.

Of a conversatlon I had yesterday ritb Mr. Ford, whea I dined

wltb hinr concern-lng the Work witb the Butyrum. Ee l.s sell fouaded

l-n his Theory, I thiDk uore so than Mr, Et s, aad his Theory ls

confi.rned by a snall but Jud1cious practice, oa a enalI scale.

He works wlth very snal1 tabulated glass not bigger

@,
tban a hens egg, with 2 such. snall in saad laid in bis
l@bwted
iron pan ln the commonCoaI A , in tr-Ls bath stove r whlcb he

finds very convenient; and can obtaj.n 4 butyr fron each

3or
,&at oae operatlon, which is 8 \ ner a^y.
* ,,
He says he never wished to possesa nore fb,aa 2 |f, of butyr;

if you pr e tend to do tbe work o n t o o la rg e a s c a le , y o u w: 1 1 1

aeve r br ia g it to perfection, a n d it will take nuch more tlme to

Matur e , to perfect a larger tha n a le s s e r q u a rt it y o f Ma t t e r.

M r , F. says the butyr is n o t p e r f e c t u n t il t h e re re ma in g

n o @, it n u st a l l b e b ro u g ht over gr adually; he uses lflt&

and good pure t cor:rosive &, , for this reagon.
 AN EXT RA C T FR OM

B ARON D E WE LLI N G'S

CONSE RVA
F ONTI N ALIS

TRANSLATED BY:

b.Tvgwbq,$@fit,ffiL.7A.
 EXTRACT

fron

BARONDE WELLTNG'
S

CO}TSERVA
FONTINALTS.

Take raln, dew, or snow put it into a large digestlng

V,
glass $rith a long neck and shut 1t crose. The glaes nust not
be above harf filJ.ed, that there nay be A wtthln the
"oorrgh
grass. Place 1t j.n the sun shi.ae every day durlng suluner, or

in a warm place, and you ri11 find after your glass has stood
'a certain tinoe 1n such a gentle stead,y warntb that tue rrill
!
ferneat aad putrify, aad that a subtil" w111 be preclpitated.
Y
fhis preclpitated,Vt" truly nothj-ag but a subtlte aust or
f
sand; but whosoever knows tutsVcentralry, and not nerely super-
ficiarly w1ll conprebend the neanlng of GENSTsch. rr v. ?, rrhe
Lord God forned naa from the dust of the earth.rf

rf you proceed rlghtty, b y d is t illin g t h is p u t rlf le d ! t o "

w111 obtaln a clear, transpareut, wonderful oiI, very fiery and
hot llke ardent spirlts. Thls o11 ls sought after by few, and
kaowa by fewer.

The sorar light ls corporified, in the \7 aurrng this operation,

v
 2

and aE tbe Lapls Pblloeopborun is trury nothlng but cORpoRrFrED

LrGHT you Bay Judge of, tbe lnportaace of thls trury natural pro-
cesa!

Tbe Lunar rays, whereln the lnfluences of the stars are Gon-
centrated, and rhlch conveys to uB cold radlcal hunldlty ( the
fenale ) carr be collec ted. 1rl the forn of cold neans of cor-
Vby
cave nlruors. fn thle Lunar rtr also there ls nore concealed than
V
fools wtll belJ.ev€.

Behold I have nos geaerously and, candtdly lald open and polnted
out to you THE TWOPRrilE PRI.{CIPLES that pervade the unlvers€r

Frilrs.

Note by Dr. Bacstrom.

- ,.\,
V
fa tbe Coneerya Fontlnalj.s

LUI{AR-t Vfurn:lehes the Sophlc

re have

i. c .
&
ir\
and FfXED

t h e v o la t l} e .
e The

Vl.a Untversallsstma.
A A
db p
+ FOT

V
COLD

ElxedV, O

Ihe receptacle of both.

FrNrs.
 IT

T H E P R OPHETESS

(Sister of l[oses)

Her Conversation with eRos, Kingf

of Egypt, concerning her rArork.

Translated from the GerTnan

BY: SIGISilONDBACSTROIq,
tvl.D.
 l'lyriam the Prophetess, Sister of luios€sr her

Conversation with Aros King of Egypt, conc€rB-

lng her f{ork.

translated fron the gernan by S. B.

Myrlan: l.Iy deat Afos! tr can acconplish the work of our Stone not

only 1n one day, but evea in a part of a day.

Does Tbee aot kaou Aros! that there is a V o" a Thing, whlch Whiten-
e th HEN D R A s s s ?tO ) (th e v i" 4 ! d & o a it s $ , wh ic h wh it e n e tb
*
or.
MJrrlan sald to A,ros: Hernes has nentioned that the phj-losopbers are

accustomed to uhltea tb,e Stone fil OIIE I{OUR.

If I did not flnd a steady allnd ia Thee, O Aros! I would say no

noret

Take ALUI! FROMSPAfS, tbe I'IHITE eUM, and TEE RED GUM, the Klbru of

tbe phllosophersr Theb Q , and the great rlncture (1.e. pure Q ).

I{a}re a Mamage of the Gun wlth the Gr.u; by a true unl.onl (i.e. nake

nEBrs).
Proceed tbererlth, that they nay flov l1kep ; tbLs well prepared

V thou nust Vltrify, tbat is: thou nust nake a glaes thereof.
'Ihls glass ls coupoEed of T1VOSUBJECTS(REBIS) and a flxt body.
(By THIS FIXT BODYTEhe neanE bere flaely poudered aad sifted whlte
pebbles, whlch, ln a strong heat flowe lnto glass; thls 1111 appear to

be her ueaning by and by).

 2

Render thls matter fusible by the secret operatlon of Nature ln the

phllosophlcal Veese1.
Take care of the Fuue, and beware, that aothlng of the
fune nay
escape! Attend the rork, wiiu a gentle A
, such as the sun gtves ia
July. (in Ju].y tn Egypt).

Be not abseat frou the vessel, tbat rhou nayst observe, hor tbe
natter becones BI"ACK,WEITE AI{D RgD, fU LESS TEAII EOIIRS
, of a d,ay,
and the fune nlll penetrate the Body, tbe spirits
rllr keep together
and rLlI becone LrrE urLK, which softens, and
read,ers fuslble and pene-
tratltr'g.

.[nd thls is the Secret O Aros!

l{yrtan: My dear Aros! r could tell Thee aaother secret, whJ.chtb,e

PhLlosoph'ers before ne, {td not know aor nade uee of!
arrd that sae not
any Tbi.ng Medlcinar. rt ls thls: vla: Take that lfiblte, clear, nucb
honoured herb, wblch' !s found oa low HllLs, pound
lt fresh and, slft
the pouder yery flaely.

lhie ls tbe true flxt body, vhich d.oes not flee fron the A , but
rather nelts into glasso (Sne means IyrrTE PEBBLES, clear and whlte)
Aros. fs thls the Truth? Myrian: Yes truly,
But very few knor thts Re6inen and the qulckness
ia tbe A .
llyrlslrr vitrify or nake a glass over the Batter; over the t(rBRrcK
AHD ZIIBECK, ( or QUBECK;D. H. ) over the 2 FUI{ES whlch contatn z LrGETs,
( sot and, Luna, i. B. Rebls
) r and, when lt ls p e rf e c t , t b ro w o r p ro J ec t
therein the furfllrlng or ferment of the rincture aad of the splrtts,
accor*lrrg. to the true Weight.
 3

( sb,e neana here the last fernent wlth Q I.

Tben pulverlse it, lt le very brltt1e, and nake use of l.t 1.n a

strong ^,\
A, and fhou wllt thlags perforned tbereby.
see strange

The Slb.ole Reglnen dependa on the noderatun of the A . It 1111

pasa fron one Colour to anotber, ln oae hours time, before it becones

WFITE and RED.

WbenThou bast obtalned perfect Redness, Let the A So out and 1et
the natter grov cold, open tbe VESSEL.

(rhether that Vessel vas an V en flre-proof cruci.ble or a glase

Veseelr I cannot decldet ft ls however probable that 1t ras a Cruclblet

as tbe Inveatlon of nakiag glass ls not so very ancient, as tbe tine of

Moees! )

Aad Thou rrlJ't flnd the body (tbe glass) appears uov clear 11},e a

flne pearlr *lth a tlnt of the rlld Poppy i.nterrnLxed yitb rb!.tel aad

thls ls the substancer rhlch laceri.ates, givetb Ingress, nolltfles and

penettates.

Aad thls Stone can be proJected on l2OO parts of t or4

Myrlun said further to l(1ng Aros: I ulLf teacl th,ee, how to pro-
ceed by the sbortest way: wtth the CLEARFIXT BODY, fouad on snal1 hlLle:
thl.s body cannot be conquered by putrefaction (the pebble), take tbat

body fl:re1y poudered and sefted; rub Lt up flnely wlth GIIl,lETSARON

W 6d) rub lt very flnely and. ualte tbe 2 pouders.

If you proJect thls or unlte thls wlth her spouse, ( O ) ft rfff

flor'tfKE V , and whea it cools, lt wllI be coagulated and They rLIl

becone OI{E B0DYrproject aone part of tb,is body, and tbou rilI a€€ sor-
derful TLLags.
 4

(guts nust be conpared with wbat she sald, first; r suspect that
tb:Ls nixed pouders, fornlng nEBIs, and poudered and sifted pebble, nust
be neltedr nust become BLACK, IVEITE, Al.tDRED a.ad be rritrifled flnally
ln the Crucl-b1e and becomes a tiagiag Stone. The succesa 1111 depend

on tb,e rtght proportlon of the prlaciples.)

lhe before mentloued 2 FUMESare the Roots of tbl.s Art aad these
2 Frrnesare tbe IilEITERIBRI0K @ 6Cf l t aad rEE EuMIDcArx) : but the
flxt bod,y le fron the heart of Saturn, uhich preserves tbe Tlncture.
The Phllosopbers have given varloue names to tb5-s fixt bod,y, whlch ts
ta.lrea from snall hlllsr aad lt ls A CTEARWFITE BODY(a clear white pebble).

Tbese are the prlaclpres of thls art, wblch can partly be bougbt,
partly it ts fouad on snall Ell1s (pebbles).

rn our work enter I stones, and the Reginea is as r bave sald"; tbe
flrst are: SEOYARE, ADE AND ZfLI(ET.

The Phllosophers bave always indlcated a long REGfI'IEN, and bave

concealed the Workr that Do rnan should easily undertake 1t, aod they
pretend to be a whoLe year ln doiag the l{.agistery; But all th].E is done
rtltb, no other rriew, thaa to hi,de the work fron tb.e lgnorant, uat11 they
caa conBreh,end it, because lt ls onJ.y acconpli-shed yith flae Q , wblch
rrbJ'ch ls a great and DLvine Secret.

Myrlun eal,d further to K1ng Aros, TgE VESSEL Otr' EmlfES doee conslst
IIT TEE DEGREEOF TFE A .

EEER0or oF ouR ART rs A BRrrrLE tEpRous BoDy ( 6 ) and venonous,

whlcb destroys all n:Lneral and metalllc bodles ard reducies then lnto
a poudelo It c oasulates p by i ts f u n e s .
 5

l{YRIAi,l addedr by sayi. ng:

I ssear uato Thee by the liv in g God, that lf t h e b e f o re me n t io n e d

&
venomous natter ( \,/ ) be dis s o lv e d and opened, so thai it b e c o mes A

llost suatnf t p L.e.Q 6d ) no natter by what Solutlon, lt coag-

ulates p r"to Luaal by lts strength, aad tlnges ll$ roto ) ana tbe Art
is ln all the Metals, but especially ia TBE FIXT },IETALS,wherein lye the

qINGT!{G ELEI.,IEI*IS.

Translati-on o f soue verses, which ternr:Lnate the Treatl se.

MYRfAMrelates many tiTonders in few words. She fixes the fugitlve

Servant (+: ) irith 2 GUMS(Rebis). This she perforns in 3 hours tine.

I"IYRIAMunited her principles in 3 hours and fixed them.

She wae re1l acqualnted rritb Plutors Daughter, (The A ).

l,fYRIA,MrS
ART is concealed IN, SPER:,IS,which she unltes and fixes.

M y r l a n rs Wo rk i s d a rk, yet 1t seene that she has used O& i .€.

Rebi.e.

Frora tbese Verses lt appears that she has nade use of , SPERMATfC

MATTERS,wblch nust be REBIS and THE VITRfFIAETE aad VITRIFYING pebble

Or she has used REBIS, SECRETA

Or PRTNCIPLEOT GLASS-I,TAICTNG. , A$D

tEE PEBBLE ON TOP OF THE MATfER, ln a [ ?

I anr aot yet Phllcsopher enough to explaJ.n MYRIAMnore clearly thaa

f have doae heren Iet I do aot doubt, whenever the Work will be pract-

trcally acconplished, by the better known LONGERbut SUREtllAY Otr' SLOW

DIGESTf0lf, thea !,fgRIAM, TEE BRASS-FOUIIDER,AND ALt TgE OTHERPEILOSOPEERS

s111, be fully conprehended, as the pri.nclples renaln the s&llor S.B.

F'rNrs.
 THE EPISTLE OF

A R NOLDUS de VI LLA NO VA

TO

T H EK t r u co F l{ n PL ES

Epistle of Arnoldus d,e vilTa Nova written to

the King of Naples , in the I 3th Century.

T ranslated from the G e rma n b y :

SIGI SIV1OND |vl,

D.
BACSTROII,

( r o n r H E u s E o F Hr s F Rr ENDS)
 Great and nighty King! rn answer to thy Request, know that the
Aacient Philosophers bave nentioned nany things 1n tbelr irlork and naay
Laboursr such as DfSSOLVfNGand COAGULATING;Baoy Vessels and proport-

ions of welghtr uhich they dld to bliad the rgnorant, but to exptaln
the work to the Wlse.

And Tbou O King! Take Notlce! That the Pbllosophers have declared
the Work 1n very few rords, although they, have added roany Superfluous

Thlngs, la order that no one, but a lrue Son of Art, should. conprehend
then.

Tb.e ltli-se Meu before rre bave declared that there is O$E OIVLYSTONE,
co r a p o se d.of 4 E lenentary prlnc ip le s , that i. A rA rV , andv,
or HEATr COLDr EUIIfDfTY & DRYNESS;a-'rd thJ.s Stone by Conparision aad
is some measute ls a Stoner yet no Stone accordlng to J.ts llature, but
a Conposed I'IETALLIC SUBSTAI\CE.

It i.s a Conposltion, whea nanaged rJ.ghtly, i-n which there is nothiag

Superfluousr nor 4ay thlng wantiug, nay all thlags [ece6sary are to be
f o u n d .l n th i s OU RS T ON E(i .e . the pur e iiif + 77
And alt,hough it be a conpoundedsubstance, cal1ed a S T 0 NE , y e t i t
is only 0F ONE, I.4ERCURfAL
ilATURg, and but OtlE Tlifi{c, tiiil which Thins,
durlng the Decoctioa 1s the A g"o"rates and. sholeth vari-ous Co1ours,
b e for e i t becones a Wh1.teperf e c t I in c t u re .

Moreover O Ki.ng! Thou sb,aIt aotice, that the above Stone, the longer

1t staad.s in the flre, the nore it inproves in goodness and ls anelior-

hted, which 1s not so in other perlshable subst&oc€so
#77 (tgx IRIIE MATTER1i.c. TEE puRE CLEAIIsED
?E';, is AN Eot'tocExrous
},IETALLTCMATTER,whlch consists of a pure revlvedin- intinately united
with MERCURIALISED
O fU REBIS, and *e Q anj-nated by Cf , and narrled
to SOL, ls here also $i"fiseA; therefore we bave bere { }lercuries, of

6 , of d, of O
"oT
or sEcRET
A nuvrveo, and.therefore this our
?EE contains ln ltself Every prlnclple necessary for the Stoae, aad

only uants Dlgeetioa, Calclnatlon, Etc.)

AIl other Thlugs are burnt ln the flre, and loose thelr origlnal

Radlcal Eu.nidity, but TEfS Om STO:{Eis anerllorated, 1n the A , 1ts

Virtue lncreases therein, and tne A 1s its l{utrlnent.
And tLls is a Tokea, Vislble and Laborous, to know OUR STOllE.

Thou art also to kaow, that thj-s Co n p o s it t o n o f o u r S t o n e , b e f o re

i-ts Operatlonr MIIST BE SEPARATEDAl[D DIVfDED T\YOWAYS, One di.vision is

CORP0REAL,the o ther SPfRITUAL, and one proceeds from the other and ls

un'ited, and the one is governed rrith the other, and 60 TEE ONE aneli-or-

ates th e other.

The ONE the phllosophers have called THE I|ASCULINI, the other the

FB{INIIIE prineiple (Rebls).

Aad agaln 0 King! Thou art to notlce attenttvely tbat when the

Phllosophers have nentloned ARGEIITVM AND I,IAGNESIAand rhen they say:

Congeal the ARGENTWVE ln the BODf OF MAGNESIA, that they do not Eean

conron qulcksilver but they lnteud to slgn-tfy, that thelr ARGENTVM

i's a gun1dity ( U ) of the before nentioaed, Stone. (EE;)

-F
The Phlloeophers have called by TEE I|AME MIRC. Tgg ITEOLECOMPOSITIoN

or th,e MIXED PRIIfCIPLE, l-n every one of tbose prl-aci.p1es, the before
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nentioued hunidi ty ts contained, 'iiEICH IS THE ARGENTVIVE OF

?EEPHrlosoPgpns. ( vurgar nercury) (eEE).
ThJ.s Hunl.dJ-ty is not Ilke otUe) huurldity, because tb,is Our Euni.dJ-ty

flons la the A, and is therein dissolved, cougealed and becones BLACK

and tilEf[E, and flnally RED aad brlngs TEE WEOLECOMPOSITION(tbe pure

Eail to fLual perfectlon.

Thou nuet O King! Take notice! That ln thls our work not nany Tblngs

are put together, but on1y one Thing (the purlfied Eaa) and there is no
necesslty of handllng that Thlng ritb your fingers, nor to add any thi-ng
besides, vhat lt coutalns.
(Coasequently tbere ls ao need of addins Q , as it is already coa-

talned mercurlal;lsed IN REBIS ln the EA;) (if you add fresn./! r you
lntroduce Les foeces)

Further take notlce O l(l.ng! That the Saow Yfhi.te$ i.s the UIIIfTE

PERFECTSTONE, and the Red.V ls called TEE RED PERFECTSTOI'IE.

Aad that the Whlte$, by the Regenen of the Work, rltbout the help

of any other Thlag, is converted into redaess.

The EIJMIDIIY sh1ch ls ln OURSTOTIE(EEA) le caIled the p or OIIR

ARGEIfTVIVE.

(1.c. the revived secret A 1 lntinrately conblned and ??Eted wi.tb

the nercurlalleed O IN REBIS).

(fEE EARPIES bavlng been prevlously washed fron it by the cleaaJ'ng

of TFE AUGIAN STABIES, as perforned by EERCUTES).

And, take notlce ! itlhJ.lst tbe V or HUMIDfTY, goes out of the con-

poeed natter, tbat ie: OUt Of TIIE STOI$E,

tEiit tbe 'llhole Conposltlon ls
converted fNTO BLACKNESS,settllng on the bottom of the glass.
e€V
( th:Ls Ls the LAST tsLACK$ESS
of the Aea)
.r

And as you non continue w1th arr easy heat, CCNTAINING

TIIf S BLACKNESS

0 UR METAttf C I{UMfDITY , d5.splaye nany various Colours, and terndnates

flnally ln perfect Hlhlteness. (TR. alba )

This OUREIIl,lIDrTr (Our $ ) ls called{f, , whlchf or V ls con-

+
bined wlth 196 q'rav' and rrlth the other Elenents concealed 1n tbe Stoue,

unt1l PERFECT'iSfTENESS is obtained, whereln the Elenents are flxed.

And herer O Klng, take notice! That the just now nentioaed AIRY

EXXMIDIIT,vhl'cb, ls OIIR ARetrNTVIVE wlth the before neationeaV (Rebis)

and other Elenents concealed in the Stone, are but ONE TEII{G.

(1.e. a Solar, antlnoa1al, Martlal and Mercurial EEX)

Ehls EUMIDTEYtOUn ) although tbere ls but lLttle of lt, yet

Q
it !s nore than sufficlent for the llourishnent of fEE IVHOLESTONE, fron

thie verJ,hunl-dlty does proceed.

This EIIMIDIfY i.s enough to brlng the Stone to full perfectlon.

(to perfect whl-te and redaess.) (especlally if you have in the beglnnlng

enployed a sufflcient nunber of EAGLESor VfRGIilS.)

thou sbouldst also know, that in our flrst nentioned Conpoeltlon

or composed Matter, tbat ls 1n the Stone, are unlted BOTII SOL Al{D LI}NA,

accordlng to thelr pouer and operatlon, as ueI1 as in the Elements and

l{ature of the Stone.

If SOt and LUItA were not ln onr Composltlon, neither @ aor ) could

be 6eaerated.; yet ls thla @ aot llke vulgar Q , nor is ouR LUNA llke

vulgar S5.1vert because OIIR SOL AlfD LUI|A coatalned lu our conposltloa
are far better in thelr lfature than those 2 vulgar netals, because OUR

UNITED SOt AIID LUNA (Rebis) are liviag, whilst the vulgar neta1.6 are

dead.

Yet lt is to be understood, that 5o1 and Lrrna vr.l.lgar are related

to our Sol and Luaa, concealed 1n OUR STOIIE and although the Philosophers

have called the Stone ltself SOL and LIruA, yet these 2 are only to be

uaderstood accordlag to tb.eir power and operatlon, but .A,RENOT VISIBLY

IN TgE STONE.

Thorr nust also know, that thls Stotre or the conposed and U$ITED

MATTXR, is but ONE OULY THING (tbe E;;) and of oae only Natu re ( U ial)
-r
aad that thereln ls to be found all wh.at is necessary, and t h e re in lyeth

also concealed what aneliorates and perfects 1t.

thls Coapositlon althor called one only ThJ.ne, does not inplX a ne"o-

lngr as Lf it rere a work nade of an:lnal or vegetable substances; but

the neaning is ONE ONLY PURE METAILIC NATURE, taken fron lts own nlaes,

whlch afterwards by a prudent Regenen of the f1re, is transnuted, DOES

PUTRIFY IN BLACKNESSAIID DEATE, and becomes I'IEITE AND RED and di.splays

naBy otber beautlful translent Colours,

Agalu O Klng! Thou nust notice, that our before nentioned Eun5'd1-ty,

wbicb is OUR ARGEI{TVM, (sopfrfc [ ) causes the destructlon of TEE

+
STONE(of the EXa-) and nakes lt BLACK AND t[HfTE.

Aud th,ou nust observe, tb,at the Philosophers say: Ye shall nake the

body fueible, and decoct it until Lt ls converted lnto V tiato p ).

Tb.ls 1s to be understood of Our Conpoeltlon, wblch nust be readered

fluld, and then coagulated, and then 1t J-s called EARTE.

 Thou must also observe, that the phi 1o so pher6 call i t ITATER when
THE STOi{E is SOFTEIIED and LI QUIF,IED n,r rTs onINv (in its owa sop}ric

H
whi.chp
) which is

t p
otherrise fixed in the Stone (

) tuen runs or floweth, and rooks

O ln Rebj.s ia

wurra, like other

1Ib

th e aaa)
1

J
V t r *" p 1 ) .
And take llotice, o Klag! That thlsp rs converted. rnto* , whlch
1s to be understood that TFrs ( U
V ) nust be coagulated, and converted,
IHIO EARTH as it
+
was orlgiaally.

Thls Body ( the coagulated uassa) now renains so long in thls Regiaen
of heat, uatil it 1s converted into a sugrrr, sprRrruAr,rsED BODY, and at
Iast lnto PERFECT',lIFrTElIEss,and this whlteness has been called * o"
sone phllosophers.

Then, whea they say, that the ArR nust be traasnuted. rNTo ArR, ycu
are to understand, that thls Conpositlon, called AIR (TR. alba) aust
gtand ln a strong heat so long, until it ie rubifled and has attalned.
PERFE0T REDllEss, a.nd. thls is carred FrRE, or REGE$ERATED
O .
o Kl ag! Tb.ou nust also o b s e rv e : t h a t o u r wo rk is p re p a re d o f on e
only conposition or conpound,ed.Matter, aad of no other.
Take this conpounded' natter (iEEl qulte clean and pure wltb,out any
rnpurlties; whlch are therein naturarly but nust be separated, r nean
to say, that the natter ought to be well purlfled.
Thle conposltlon place on the flre, and govern 1t, as i{ature requlres,
and fhou art especlally to notlce, that ia tbe beglnn.ing of tbe v;ork,
there is nuch danger 1n the Reginent of Eeat, as Thou nayst soon destroy
the 'flork by too nuch heati But rhen putrlfaction ls over, afterwards
it is not easy to connlt Emors.
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After putrefaction, the h e a t mu s t b e b e t we e n g e n t le a n d s t ro n g ,

uatll the spirit bas separated itself fron the bod.y, and, has ascended,
on bighr above tbe Eartb, whl.lst the Body lays dead, below i-n the botton
of th e Vessel, Without its S p irit o r S o u l.

During thj-e perlod, take this aa a sign, TE.ATTIIE I.IATTERMUSTNOT

FLOYfl{0R SUBtIl"lE DURINGPUTREFAOTfON,if it does, Thy F1.re is too strotrg,
and fhou rl1t destroy the Work.

rf rby trtiork goes oo quletly, the spirit reaves the Bod,y, but nust
be brought back to the dead Body, fro::r whence it cane, analogous to
Resurrectioa.

Tbis splrit reseables A tsLACKcl,ouD fulI of Rain V . This spirit

ts called the V OF.LIFE, vhicb doth preserve the Body, with whon thls
epirlt rests a while, and finally resuscitates yitb the Glorlfied. body.
tho u art to nottce, that the often n e n t lo n e d Co n p o s it t o n ( f irs t

Rebls aud Secret A , afterward,s the pure Ei;) contaias that flery prin-
,\
ciple or A , whlch killeth aud vivifleth, and, for thls very reason the
conposed natter becomes BLACK, '#HITE Al{D RED, w"ithout the help of any

foreign Thi'ng.

Finally 0bserve, that la the begianing of the it/ork, the heat und.er
and about the glass, nust be gentle aud kind, ln the nJ.ddle after putre-
factl on lt nuet be stronger, b u t s t ilr mo d e ra t e u p t o t h e wh it e , b ut
fron the perfect whlte to the Red, the Eeat nust be stroag.

so that tne A nust be gradually increased,, until the stone hae

obtained PffiFECT I'IEITENESS,and stl}1 nore, untll the lllghest Redness
J.s acconplished.

F " i ni E .
NEUIVIAN ON NITRE

THE NATURE AND DIFFERENCE

OF

,5 A L T P E T R E
 Neunanon Nitre. ( O )

Neunan

on

The l{ature and dl f f erenc e

of Salt petr€r

trTedJ.rnlde connon perfectly pure

@ i.nto 5 Classes; though whenO t"

and well depurated frou external, inpure or forelgn bodles, lt is then

oae and the sane, whether it coBes fron Gernany, Poland, Russia, France

or the East fndies.

Tbe dlfference coaslsts alone !n a greater or less degree of purity,

vl.a:

1. The unpurlfied quit e c ru d e O .

2, Th.eonce purlfled O .
th e p e rfe ctl y p u re
5. O .
l. C ru d e (D t" crysta l llsed but i- s stl1l nlxed with a quantlty of

19 f., connon @ aad fatf Iy particles; Thls @ foo*s yellorlsh

?
or $ty, coaeists of snall 1 1 1 s h a p e d Cry s t a ls ; a n d f u ln ln a t e s slowley

and badlJr.

2. Tbe one putifled @ foorc whlte, bas got large clumsey Crystals,

fulntnates stroager, and whea dlssolved ln \/ and precipltated with

& 1 or wlth a pure potash Lye, tbls @ does not preclpltate so

?
nuch (p as the qu:Lte crude O d,oes.
f'
I
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3. A perfectly pure t" nearly transpareat llke \/ r hae beautiful

O
well sbaped Crystals wl.th 5 sides and Ionglsh, fulninates very stroagly

in the A , contains tto (|) V nor ConnonO o

?
Its Crystals look like th:is , soEte snaller, some }arg€fr

whleh d,epends on the quantJ-ty of the evaporated Solution and oa the Vessel

according to tbe place and roon the Crystals have to shoot in; which

Crystalllsation is done suddenly ln a monent, all though not i-n every

p la ce at once, but gradually in d if f e re n t p la c e s o f t h e Dis h e s .

lm. NEUMANsays: Nature generates the EALI-NITRUI"Ior APIIRO-NITRUM

(i.c. TgE NATURAT

(D , before the saltpetre-nakers boil and crystallise

lt the first ti-ne, and i-s called NATM-MTRE) tbe nost pri-nclpal and

fr on a II other S alts *j.stingu ls h e d E s s e n c e , s p e c lf y in g t h e Ch a ra c t e r o f

N i tr e .

Nature doee not bring this to a perfect

APIIRO-NfTRU}{ dry hard and

cr ystallla e S tate, or into s u c h a S a lt , a s t h e g e n u ln e @ a p p e a rs a f t e r

boiling and crystallisl.ng.

Ar t ad.ds to this lnperfec t n it rio u s E s s e n c e g e n e ra t e d b y Na t u r e , a

flxe d a lcallae S aIt, aad there rj-t h , b y V a rlo u s , y e t e imp le o p e ra t ioa s ,

/
b r in g s it to/a dry, hard, cr y s t a llin e , p e rf e c t and useful Nit re .

Eos Nature generat e I NTTRI, i"[R. NEUI4ENf orm-

erly a celebrated Ch y n is t a n d P u p il o f P ro -

fessor STAEL at Berlin, gives us the follow-

lng Infornation, w e ll wo rt h y o f llo t ic e to a

Chenclca1 Phi Io sopher.

 'ivhenever Nature intends to generate in the Earth three ragred-
@
ie n ts ar e required,

l. T he princlple ls a pu t rid S u b s t a n c e o r a ro t t o a Co n c re t e ei t h e r
frons the aalnal or vegetable Departnent.
Thi s required putrid substance aust be an oily urinous sart.
2.The second rngredien.t is aa
Y , wbich nrust be flt to receive
such ao & Iy [l otr" uatll the generation 1s accomplished.
e,
To thls, either clay or negre Loam, or Line-stone, old lTalls or
o ld pla stered Wa1ls are the n o s t p ro p o r E a rt h s .

3. fhe th:ird and princrpal ragredlent is the V , (Excerlent) partly

as a unlversal agent, although not the \'&oIe V , but its inward, vlv-
ifylng princlple lnclosed in a ulIrvERsAL AcrD, NrrREous, l,losT suBTrL
SALT. (ny system of Nature exactly) partly as an assi_stant and, Ins_
trunentr as l{ature wants the whole volune or mass of to perforn tb-Ls
woaderful geaeration, not only for causlng the rrRsT l{EcEssARypuTRE-

FACTIOI'{'but also as a Vehicle for iotroducing THi.TUNIVERSAL

AGENT,
TEE AERE3,L
AcrD, NrrREous 1r order to effect the new nixture or
e,
g e n e r a t l o a o / th e N a ti ve -
/Y @ eous- Esseace.
The rhole Process of llature consists therefore in the followlng
Op e r a tLo ns.

1. To dispose Arrimal or Vegetable substances toward,s putrefactloa.

2, whea those substances putrlfy, to introduce the nost subtl1 & ,,

Qraer El ous particles lnto ore or nore of the above nentloned, I(lnd.s
offrand

3. To intro Cuce that Vl te1 , p rin c lp le in c lo s e d ln that u n lv e rs a l ,

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ACID ,
@ eous S alt, a6 nuch a s j-s n e c e s s a ry , a n d

4. By neans of Tlarnish aerial Hun:idity, as a Veiricle and assistant

to acconplish the natural !4lxture.

The Natlve Saltpetre origlnates and !.s got wlthout nuch bunaa ass-
lstance, as God aad. l{ature procures it. rt is elther obtalaed ;
l. Fron Nitrious r which is the Case 'rith us ia gernany and nore
V
so irr tbe Eaet Indles.

2. Fronn Loany lyalls or grounds.

3. Fron old decayed Ruias, which have been bu1lt of tfune-Stones.

l{benever Nature generates , unasslsted by tbe art of nran, it
@
happene coruroaly ln such places, where dl.fferent Substances bave putre-
fiedr aad such putrefactlon has insinuated l-tself i.nto a Clayish or
loany ground. in its whole nlxture, or the putrlfied. nost subtlr 8oa,
Qio" [lous Essence has evaporated and lnsj-nuated. ltself lnto the
LinXr particles of o1d decayed lTa11s, stan*ing trear such putrefactlons.
Both nay happen Varlous ways, vizz

1/ when ('l) i. generated, in the Earth, the place is either such a

/Y

o'rl€-where large beard.s of Cattle have stood,, or wbere nuch Cattle have
passedr or where Battles have been fougbt and a nunber of nea aud horses

have been killed and burled; or such a place where Leaves of Trees or
other Juicy Vegetables have putrlfied ln large quantlties, or 1n Church,-
yarde and' burying grounds, aad lastly on or near pl.aces where dead Cattle
or dead horses are burled.

(Flanel nakes use of a saylng: renenber that you have learned tpis
Secret anongst tb.e bones of the dead,!)
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2. Wben O i" geaerated on loarny or 1j-rae-Stone lYa11s, buildings,

Cellarsr or such llke; lt 1e thea elther Bear Stables or places where

sheep, pigsr cows, Goata or liorses are kept night and day, or near pid-

Seon-or-Fow1-Eouses; or near prlvl-es aud Connon-Sewers, near Dung-Hl1ls

and places where urlne ls thrown, and where no Sun-Shlne can dry it up;
rlkerise near old 'vvalls la Churcbyards or burylng grounds, near old
decayed Ruias built of Llne or free Stone standlng ln shady places, and
under o1d decayed thatched sbeds; fiaally 1n such places shere varlous
putrefactlou.s and strong Exhalatlons of putrefied Substances happea or
have happened, such as Burgrlng grounds.

(Its origin nay well be called VfLE. )

The Loan aad f,whereln tb,e putrifled Essence lnslnuates ltself nore
readlly for Nltrlfication, 1s conmonly ratber poor than fat, or has beea

Blaetered or bullt rlth Llne; for tb,at reasoa we deen Llne excellent
V "o
?
nagIIeE.

O ls generated, t",y STOIIES, aad nost coruoonly ln such aa are

.+/1.
of an absorbing k1nd, such are those about parls,

fn FRANCEnear SAUMIIRon the Rlver IOIRE 1s a quarry, rvhich yields

a nj-uera, full of (D , and therefore is dlgged, out there 1n great guan-

titl esr out of thls stone mu c h O is b o ile d .

Frilrs.
t |E RT iI E T I CA L E)(T R AC T S

f tom

THE WORKSOF

B E C H ER
 EerEetlcal Sxtracts

f!oo

Beche!rs Works.

Conteote.

The truth of the Art ... 1,

A Pmcess 2,

Quotatlon fron Theophlastu6 4,

EyorodDuara Process of the Pblloeopblcal SraD ... 4,

t€p1rer1ar Proceaa 7,

Colcordaltla Chynl.ca. p. 176

I! you dc61!e f6l,1city aad rleh to obtaln a blesslng, aa God lives

oterDellyr there 1€ ore BubJ€ct 1l tb€ rorld, rb,1ch le called the Stolc

of the Phl'lo8opbers. It lE llde8tluctlble, & contah6 both Wblte atd

Rcd. Tb€ ore 1a naIe, the otbor la feDale.

ft 1s called ArILEal, Vegcteble & Mlaeral; auch aaother subJ€ct ca!-

lot be found arlrrbero.

ft has au actlre aad a passlve pore!, a dead aad 1lv1ng subgtanc€,

& poasess€E rltbln ltself a Elrlllt and a souI, tbougb the lgnora[t look

upo! 1t ae a vlle tblng.

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It cotttalns the 4 Eleuents 1B j-t8 bo6on; lt ls every where, 1s fouDd

ln all pl aces, aad 1s connoDly poesessed by all nen. It 1s bought for

a snalL p!1ce - on€ pourd for a penny.

It aeceads of ltself, glors black, descends & beconea Wh1te3 Lt

lacreaaae ald decrease6.

ft 1e a tbing wbich tbe $ !!od,uces.

It descende fron above: 1t 610116 Whlte & Reds lt ia borD, dt€a aad

resuacltates, aad afterrards l-t 11ves foreyer. By naay ray6 1t attaLns

tb€ E4d.

ft 1s a nodest and etrong eouJ, a[d 18 nultlpllable.

A Ploceas.

Who3oever sould obtaln the Stone of the Ptrl.loeophera let h1[ not

a€arch 1! Vegatables or Anlnals; :.n$ , p or uetate; la(B1r O

O, "
e tc.!o ! Lot r , + , 6,-? Q ; o o 'i " 2 L ' 9 .
EyIe or Ch,aoe doea all; lt is laclosed ln our fountala of salt -

tb€ tree o! Sol & Luaa, called ELOS MELlfS, the flower of honey.

It 1s p and {/ : The V 1s volat11e - tne V tfxt. One doe6 aot

opelate rrlthout the other: Both ar€ fron oae root, aad po66es6 tbe porera

of all tbe aetals, y6t IT IS NOT DUe OUT 0F 1H3 i'fINES, Ilbele ou! ratter

1s fourd, are usve! aay Eeta1s, except 1I1 poteDtla 1n our HyLe, wel,f

knorn by EOMERUS; TEIS RERB hae a black root (the+ ) 1s green, Wbite

a[d b]ood-red; tbe God Melcury ahowed tble herb to ULYSSES to pre6elve

hl.nself floB tbe Solcellea of CIRCE.

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ft ls also ca1led TIIS SOLAR ROoT, well klowa to the W1se, and j's

uetaphori.cally coopared to the P1a!ets; 1s likew16e called AZ0TS, or

ai.-, tbe Merculy of the Phllosophers, ADRoP, and ANATROI{, SATITRNUS.

Satullus ruLe6 the Eaftb, chlch ls coEpared to our SubJect; Ih1B

SubJect ls the red V ala RED LEAD, de6p16ed by Fools; Thl.s 1a also

calLed tba RED and GREEN lfON, aad TERRA ADAMICA.

Tbis 16 an Extract of whole Nature; out of tbls na66 or red Ealth

the AL0lgbty Cod created AdaD; our natter ls afso called MICRoCoSMUS;

lealu to kuof, ADAM, TEX RED 8ARTE, rhl.ch we call TEE FIRST MATSER.

Nor re coEe to

Tbe Preparatloa.

K1Il the LLon rlth great Coulage, atd take 1ts Blood, the Splendor

of @ r aepalated frolr the Centre of tbe etlnkJ.ng$.

m6solve tbl.sv rlth great Care, and separate the alry fron the

nol,st, that 1s the p fron thev , the voJ.atile froB the flxt.

V anaf, a v1s1b1e Eleuents cootatn A ."oA 1nyi61b1y; If you

ra!.t your rolk to cone to a bappy Erd, [arry tbe WoEaa to the Eu6bard,

b€cauae Nature rhen pure, leJolces 1! Natule, and rl6bes tbe unioD.

The al|l.tlatedJL dlaeolveE the body, aDd the body coagulat€e tbe4- ;

It ls our $ otr uhon 1a fould,ed our stone; our I of ltself be-

t + "toae,
coDga bIack, green, Vlhlte and red; ls hl.uself TEE PROTI{EUS, the God

OF tHX OCEAJ{, rho 16 caught ltr a atrauge Baare!, dlssolves a!.d coagul-

atea ltself.
 Pb€aoBeDa.

dur"LDg the DlgestloE.

A Woudelful Reactloa t€-kea place aootrget the EleneatB, and V cov€re

the Ehole Ealthr aad bl,ackneas takee pJ.ace. Itr oraler to dfy up th€ hu!-

1d1ty conthu€ a geEtle Eeat, aad God 1111 creats a ler E€aveD ard a

Eet Earthr thlcb ls the Phoedx, Kl'lled aad reselerated out of 1ts ot!

ashee, aad la becoDe a true Sal,anatrder, rbo fl.ves la the A .

Theophrastus.

Tal3e a fl'rt Substalce, or thy Labou! 16 1a raltt. Lealn to hrot thla

ody Thha; dlasoI"e, goagulato, d16so1ve the body aad blad the-rL r aad

Tbou haat th€ Art; volat1l16e the flxt and flx tb€ vo1at11L6ed, and thou

bast the IR.

A Cudoua Ploceaa rritten a!.d rorked by Father Ey€rolyEua a lra!-

cl.acalr !,loDk. (If se could dlscover the SubJect, the process 1tself

aeeE8 to b€ yelJr 61!?1€ ald ue€rly aD Opelatlon of Nature ard Dot ex-

peaelve )

Plocaaa

Ot tbe PhLlosoDhl.cal Ssall.

Take TEE BIRD rblcb 1s lot u-ELLke a Srat; (1n colour) dressed Ilt
WEITE Al{D PURE ROBES, f}yiDg froE 1ts Suprene astraL Seat vithout r-l-!g€,

to ITs I'IoTHER, whlch lt had gelerated, (theV ) before out of lts oin

selt. ( f us beea oade of V )

ttthd rel1 the T1E€ OF ITS COMII{G, rbl.ch happeaa, rbenlly'aad SCC'

r€ce1ve Phoebue 1! tbelr Eouses (1.e. 1B DeceDbc! and January) (be

EeeDa to oeaD SNoW, eee Eu6ealus Pbllalelbes h1s Euphlates; rbere be

Epee]t8 of att ExperlEert rrltb Snow).

Take that Sra! rlthout toucblng 1t rj-tb you! barda, and lnclose 1t

la a Wooden prlaon, takhg care that the Wlads nay not hurt 1t, but

rb6! PHOEBUS 1111 haye TH! EISEES behlBd bln andY before b1!r (at tbe

Entrance of Spr!!g) theE take tbe Sf,a!. out of lts vooden prlson aad

lanedlately ob6ery. lt 1D a transpalent torer, rbere lts thlte garuents

rill be atoletr fron 1t (the subJect w1J.l ch'rge and becone black).

Fo! that reaBo! the Sra|r 1111 be sad and by weepllg rll]. sbed Daay

Teare, uut1l lt trals[utes 1t6 Llfe and Souf llto a Fountaln of ]1vln6

V . (fhe'total. LlqulfactloD of tbs subJect).

lhe Body o! the Sra!, du!1ng 6oBe 6pace of t1ne, r-llL b1de ltself

1E ths fourtal.lt out ot ShaEe, b€cause 1t ha8 lost ITS 1YEITE RoBES.

therafore the Sran deslres to be boln a Second tlae aad to be dreased

1n a ller WEITE sgIRT ald A PURPLE ROBE, and rl€hes to be crowned rith

a cror! of @, tbat 1t Eay bacoEe a Klng. (a forE€lted m.)..

Wb1let PE0EBUS erparde b18 RayB fronf to U tlc Body of th6 sra!

r1l1 be eeparated froE 1t6i- , aBd restlBg ln 1t6 glayet nuat be left

tb.re to putrlfy.

The S1gB of thls putrlfactloB la, che! the Body of the SteD lg
 6

aulroulded rrlgb the blackest CoLour of tbe Raven.

After thl.s, the Srelra Body lolgs to be hu.uected by lts ornjt- ,

tbat !t nl.gbt b€ washed claar, atd fed wlth 1ts ow! blood uDt1l PHOEBIIS

shaLl haye erllgbteled tbe Road offf andfi (aurfng Uay and June) rheo

at la8t the Body of the Sra.D recalyea 1t6 orDG a6a1tr aDd a Der Llfe,

and putE or a Nor IIflfTE aud DEPITRATEDSEIRT (TR. ALBA).

TheJI of the Zoall-ac lor KlLled by PEOEBUS, 6heds b1s blood, a.Dd a

fef, dlropa hatl fallen on the Ner f,h1te Sb1rt, ald bocare theleby aa rblt€

aB SDow.

(Tbe Sua golng out ot Leo lD August, the perfect rhlte ?R. raa ob-

tal.aedr.

Whe! PEOEBUS sar th1a, tbat tbe Sblrt waa Dot solled by tbe blood

of the L1o!, but oD the Co[trary ras becoue Eore splendelt, Ee (Pho6bus)

seDt th€ heavenly Vlrt1D ( V/ ) tnat sbe nlght flU tbe Ballance (G, )

rlth the Ll.o[s 81ood, aDd thoreyltb Etah the Shlrt all over, 1! order

to colvert that [h1te gerleDt lDto a SCARLE! ROBE. /: I RuUra :/

r.Vh1.chled Robo Phoebua propoaed to sead to the King by lhe'?Qand,

/. (l{hen the@ te :.a r''the ned iled1c1tre wllf be coEpleted).

Thls operatloa ol the hcolbu6t1bl,e Sraa ras rrltteD atd absolved

by trather EYEROIfYMIIS Mo}IK OF IHr oRDER OF ST. FRAICISCUS. A.D. 1498

AGED 85 TE,ARS.

rlrrs.
 TlDctula !,t. LEPfREIII, whl.ch be coBEudcated

to the EEperor Rudolphu8.

(The Enperor Rudolpbue ra6 a posaeseor at the tlne of Augustue ELe-

ctor of Saxo4y 1D the year t!80)

What 8!eat porer thelo 16 lu tb€ SAI, ANATRoN or DI'NCCE. Ancleat

ard Eoder! Pbllo8opbcls heve frequeDtly n€nt1ooed, and a8 tbat Salt ls

Adnalr Vegetable ald }l''leral, and coatahs also a secret netalllcjL,

for that reaso! lt operatea 1n aII netalI1c, arLaaL aad yegetable Sub-

ata!ce6; and the rhole Ealth 1s fllled rltb thl.s Salt, so that Dotbllg

ca! Iror rithout 1la porer.

If lt ls putrltled by tho belp of Art, lt beconea A LION sblch de-

voules el]- Tb1!ga, a!'d by its 6reat porer bri.lga tben lato a ner E66eDce.

tbl,e ol'aeral Earthly Sa1t, rhen 1t ls leduced to a P e 1t l.s con-

pared to e! Eagle, aad ls calleal a.lr-, becau6e rbat€ver cauaes e fune

, or yapour !s. calLed MERCURY o! a.Ji- .

Tb€reforo thie Sal,t 16 a true ilercudalJt- .

TbLe SaIt 1s hwardly a true A , although outwaldly coLd atd coollag,

thereforo l.t ls also called , because f. tl" Llfe of evely Thi.ttg.

$ $
'//ber thle { vaalshes, tbe Etd of Substaaces 1a lear at hatd, aa re
+
lay obs.rv€ that 1a aulnal, yegetable a!'d Dtneral Subatances.

Th€ro l's 1a thl.e Salt a !1xt prhciple, and 1s Ltr 1t8 or! Natur€

a Bodyr lay a Sphltual Sal,lDc Body, It follors frorn thence, that 1!

tbt's salt the!€ are, PRItrcIpLEs, *r.+ , , e 1 t.e. AnlnalJr-,

$
Corpusr ald these 5 ale coDceal.ed 1! tbe 4 F.LeEelts, f,h1ch ale alao
 I

ptal,DLy corc?tcuous la thi.e O , vtzz A ,^ ,V , and f,, ana

appear by eeparation aad Reductlon, therefore the Ancients have called

1t A STONE, coatalDlng the 4 E1eneBts; They have chose! th18 e fOR

TSE TROE IIATTER OF TIIE STONE, ald have called l.t the ftRsT UATTER; be-

cause they Ead.e use OF TSIS TXRRESTRIAL SAIT as a Key to open O or

J , so as to becooe a Tl!,cture.

(BaroD Rusen6teln saye Ln nany place6 of hi6 Bookr that no lrof€ la

sarted for obta1!1n8 a TR. the! A gtT lIEtlS?R{tU}t to ope! @ ot I

""o-
trally aud Naturally, to putrlfy the sane and uature herseLf 1111 !e-

gerelate and lerfect lt.)

ProcesB.

Eor the SaIt AIATRON or DITNXCE 1a to be pre-

pared a!.d vo1atl11sed, 60 aa to becone an

openlng all penetratios U ; wher€wlth the

f
perfect Bod1e6 lray be ualocked, to becone

T1!ctures.

Therefole take thls anatroa or dulech, q.v. purlfy ltr untlL

Q

1ts Crystals becoEe perfectly tlar.Epalent.

Weigh { $ of thle ard poude! it la a Stone norter, then take 7

(, ot pottete Clay, of brok€B uabaked vessels, red.uced to a pouder

aad elfted, n1r the 2 lrgled. ln the norter.

then put lt lnto a roor0ey well Coated glaes p r rhlch bury la tbe

.'lii pot, ald a!trlly a yely targe Bal,Loon.-Receiver, whlch lute carefutf,y

6 \be/o.
 9

Nor l1tht you! A, and Let i.t be gentle aud gradual, Ourlag /anO
o g!ey-fl-
,f t beelrrttng earlly in tbe norliag, unt1I a1t the whlte and

are coDe overi

When you eee tbe redJL s or Vapours coEe, take the BaLloo! aray

rl,th the rbl.te-.a- I, atrd appLy qulckly anothe! lery dly Recelverr ald

1ut6 qulek].y rlth a Stroke of Ll,len and paste atrd thu6 you {.11.1 obtaln

the red vapours.

l{or hclease yoo" A a llttle to force all tbe redJt- s ovet, and

gj-ve a et1ll stroager heat the ,rd day, uatil !o Dore does coE€ ov€rr

(It appears p1a1!tIy by tbls, that a red.JLof fs rnad.e here.)

@

Let the4- 6 cool and rest 24 bours, theD take the Recelver off and

pour theS-l.lto a lar6e bottle rlth a glass stopp€r.

Tbls nercurlaf $ or sulpbuleoua $ t" ao" Key to our A!t.

?+

CoDpo6ltio!.

Take 2N- of pureO, U."t 1trto th1! Leave6, rh1.ch cut lnto 6na11
?
bits wlth a pa1! of sclasarE, put tbeE loto a digestlng globe, aad pour

upo! lt of your above preparedJl-, Bo a5 to cover ttre @ e flngere hlgh.

(shut tbe globe, aud set 1n SuEEer Eeat.)

Note tbat youlJr- nu8t be acuated, ylth its own flxt tn tl" fo-
Q

llor-hg nanne!. (1t Dust te anV .)

Eatlact the fl.xt Q ri.tU boll1ng I out of the @ rena1allg 1n tbe

t and clallfy 1t we1l.

1p
TheB d1€6olve z l- ot your f1:(ed Q rn + I ot yoot:s' out of
//
 lo

your glaas bottle, put tbe SoLutlon lnto a enal1 6taas1@, and dlstil

tbell over, aud l-n 2 o! , Cohobatlons all the flxt Q *f:.f coDe ove!

wlth tb.e red-G . \6 7 of.r2- )

J.
Th1aJr- d1seolves the @ rad1ca11y.

(+ ot-tt- rl11 Dot volatlllse 2 ot flxt , but J part6 to

l- | Q
?/
I palt riII do 1tJ.

l{hen your @ leaves are pelfectly dlasolved, wblch Dust be dotre ln

a dl-geatllg gl.as6 ytth a lont neck, (The neck nuat be shut, the globe

etaade 1!, a waru place ln about ?6) th€n pour the @ Solutloa lato a

snall glaaa Body, wb1ch llace over a Bah. Vap., apply aa al,eublc oa

the body aJrd a Rec61ver, aD,d. d16t11 tbeJL- 6 froB the @ , aad tbe Eost

fixt sp1r1t6 1111 adhere to ald lenah rtth the I rhflet the rost
@
vol,atlLe foraake 1t alrd coEe oyer, aDd the d16aolved becor"e heaver,
@
aad wheE you 6et 1t 1n a cool place, l't 6tands LfKE A RED BUTTER.

Pour tle6h.s-upoB you! , as haa bee! acuated rlth lts orn

@
"u"h
flxed Q , .and d1etl1 1t fror lt 1n BaIB. Vap. as you d1d bafore.

R€peat thls rith flesbj|-, utrt1l tbe@ bas increased 1n 'flelgbt

*on 2l 6 5 1 . Th€! 11 1s enough.

Tbl-B
-? Sol,utlon of fB, over a gentle Eeat, a red flxt Butter; of
O
the Colour of a Sturcheoa Elorer, rather deeper, but 1D tbe cold 1g 6eers

qul,te bard or atlff.

lfot aa you have nad,e your poaderous ia the above Danue! ald iE-
@
pregnated lt'r1tb the UulversalJt-or A, you Eust Dow raah or purlfy

It aa tollora.
 Puliflcation of the Solar Solution.

Tahe dl-stllled Raln I aad pour lt upon the , ao as to cover

O
it 2 flDgers b16h, aad the So1utloD rl11 be dlluted l-n the ! and 1111

lookotaOcolour.

Let l-t stalrd e4 hours, then pour 1t off perfectly clear, 1n Case

there should b€ a[y fnpurlty at the Botton, lnto a snal1 clea! and dly

gl,as6 body, which place orer a Vapou! Batb, apply aa afenblc and Recelver,

aad d,ist1l tbe$ SentlV fron the r unt11 Lt renalns 1i.ke a! &ot
@ "
dee? orange Colour.

If lt should not be perfectly pure, thia sane operatlon nu6t be

repeated, utt11 it is so.

Take lt froE the Bath, and it rlu. s tap.d coag ulated I1ke a red Butter.

a)
Dlgestloa. X
l{or you Eust bave a doubLe phial, [here the neck of the upper one

i6 grould lE the Beck of the Lower; aBd of 6uch a 612e, ttrat oaly the

119 part of the globe 1s fl1Ied; paste strj.pa of llane! over the Jolnts.

Tben put )rour gl-obe 1n a laop furnace and let your beat be as gentl€
/9
as possl-ble, atrd 1! tbe space of 30 O / , the rbole substaDce wll.L be

a @ coloured p , rblcb 1111 begln to felBent and becone darke! frora

day to alayr uat1l 1t 18 a6 black as fnk, and doe6 lutrefy and snells

vety baall.y throu€b the Jol"nl.Dgs of the Necks.

Before l.t 1€ qulte black, dark clouds asceld and descend a6a!n.
 12

Tb.i's blacknese la6ts +O dor SO; coatlaue the gentle Eeat, ult11 1t

drl'ee up arld becones WEIT8. Alter the t{h1te ls coEp}eated the Feat la

llc!€aged a l1ttle and coDthued to redaess. !:ln18h tbs proce66 as

Uature requlres lt.

Eld6.

(The above lroc€as Dust be coupared wlth that 1n DfcBYrS CEYHICA],

SECRETS P. ,1. If tt lE t!u6 tbat SLr KetteLn Aaa ZZlot tL

@tot
put J'u thc glass, p. 32t tb€d tb,La p!oce66 Bay be true alao, aa tbet

arc both rorked rlth , rb€relD 1e{ aad alcall)

-V
(CoDsaqueatly ABBET ROUSSEAUTS procesa upoa th6 Eothor Llquor of

r or th€ SolveDt prepared !1s ray, nay be treatod rttb flue er-
@ @
actly h tb€ sa.!. ne!!€r aa tbls process of LEPEREilf, thor I l1kc ABBET

ROUSSEAUTS SOLVENT stlll better tbaD th18)

(I belLeve LEPEREI{f|S Dl.geatlo! rust be extleBly gentle, lot abovc

90 or IOO Deglees or tba Ether la theVtll r.Lll. aoo! burat tb€ g1a66,

tbich 1e double fo! the sake of gl.yLDg Eorc loon to tbe ErPalalon of tbs

adlated blgbl,y eleBtlc* therela contaLaed)

(The Author cal.la ble So1utlo! of O A BUTTER rhl.ch houev€r 1t 1e !ot,

aa l.t 18 yet perfectly etxt l.n tleQ ; but I do rot doubt, tbat durtlg

the geatle aDd long D16estl.or tbc ri} and aLcali h tbeve by R..ctloD

are fullJt capabls to opcl tbe rad1.cally and ceutral,ly, a[d tbo! of
O
Cour8e lt Dust d1€ a[d putlefy, ald Nature 1.e. tbe ltllversalJl. WfTEII{

AltD SITEOI'T rlU certahl.y r€tc!.nte 1t.)

(In tbc roor of d1stLl.L1n6 thc r€d.rLof(D , I thlDk a corEon good

 t?

of @ nfgUt be bou6ht, ard. carefulty rectlfled h a geatle geat,

-rr-

uald.ag uee of the red Vapou!6, f.". A l{aturae, alone; (Becher tells
t
us 1n h1s PFYSICA SUBTmRANEA, aad Stahl r€peatee lt tbat @ coatahe

aburd'htly t"" a:rd saa Q rmO-Oll, vrRcInV as tbe f1r6t

+!{ATSRA!,
pllnclple of U ) thea f rould rectlfy a CoEEo!.+-of Sea Q 2 or 5
+
t1!e6r aral thls done, ldx the 2 rectlfledi-E 1tr equ1l qua!t1t1e6, ald

you have certa1qly a Do6t addrable\[, , 'rblch ls as red a6 a Ruby; I

nad€ 1t oBc6 1!' tbl's nanaer -

Ws ca!-Dot asceld Eor€ u8lversaLly, but la the nean tlne CORPonEAL

!\D PALPABLE, thFh to @ aa<t Sea Q . Thea lf tLls l.s practlcabLe,

aa lt seeu6 to be froE SIR K&qgLM.S PROCESS dthQ aadv p. rl, tbere

nuet alao exlat a ehort ray rlth(D , seaQ anc@:.n tn"[ ; or rlth

ana QrftbutO ) (to procur€ a unlversal solveat or Key for@ J.n

@

tl"[ I

(MR.,POTT a pupLl ol SEAEL, tells ua, that lf you pour ether of@l

upoE a Solutlo! of O loVZ , ard sct the 61a6s l'n a very geatle degree

of heatr the @ foreakes the$ and asceude lnto tbe Ether, whLch does

lot dr ri.tb tbev . ODe UO}ISR. I.{ACARTY AT PARIS naae @ Eedl.claal

by thls proc€sa, alal got a vast deal of ooaoy by thJ's klnd of @rn

PoTABIL8, as lt perfolDed 6oDe very great Cu!68. Tb1s has happelod about

tbe yeara l75O uatl1 /0, vbea MACAnTI dled at Parls trea! a 100 years

ol,d; I havo thl's fact froD a flench GentJ.eoau, COSNI LAURAGUIS, rho

rae 1a London Lt 1??2.

N€vertbeless I do aot deen MACAI{IYTS potable , A REGENERATEDO ,

O
by no oeaas!)
 t4

(a Tbought occura to Dy dtld concerdng tbe foregolEg LEpHE[f tS

proceas, ald perhapE Lt le a 6ood oler trb1ch Eq)e!1ence fituId dlacover.)

(I rould begln treatlnE of puls @ uy tn" Fulna! of PARAcELsltst

^o2
as taught by MOI$E SI{TDER 1a DfCBYTS CAYUICAL SECRETS p. 16' la order

to obtah (h rLJ.ch ylu be or a QColour aad traaaparent.

O"
" '
Thls I rould tleet rltb a gooa$ , ae LEPERENI toachea 1! Prefelalco

to @ fa Leav€a, aa a SoIarG, le already opened by the Fulnan, vh11st

@ itr Lr"v"" ls qulte sorpoleal and locked up.)

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g
SIR KEIIE LI ' I DIGBY ' S

SAL ENIXUM

and

ASSE' ROUSSEAU' S

P RI rttU I, E IvS S A LI S
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C ONTENTS

)
Ealxtrn of strange vlrtues ooo rar tot oao tto ... 3,
Cur:trousuqiversal sp1'rtt of aao aoo aaa aoa oo. 5,
?
Another tuiible e Eatxun o o. aaa aar. aao .al ... 7,
Salla Ealxa for Tinctures tto aao aaa oao ..]' 7,
tal Q ELtx. rht.ch transaut"" O lato Q ; ana p iato )
?
and O .oa oaa o.a taa,, 9,
fo prepare e Euix ln glass phials aol loo a.o ool T2,
rofixpof 6 aoo oaa aao aao aao oro 14.
I ts use ooo aoo ooo oro aaa f ol ooo a a a.a t 14,
e h1xun inpregnated. rlth . o. r o. o o. 15,
I
ooo. oool.a
+
I
Red TR. of O and 6 uhi.cb tinges
)lnto O oo. .oa aaaaat 15,
A Red TR. Of cqmmgn A
?
ooo ... l .l ta a lao aaoo.roa T7,
fo prepare SaI l,fl.rablle ... o.. o .o a ta aaa aao.aaoa. 18,

Of the Unj-versal e or Pr1-nun ens Salls aaa aaa aalaao 19,

Process on nother V of sea e ooa loo o.o aaa oaaa 2T,
Process on nother V of (E a.o o fa aao oao ataa 22,
Procesa oa mother o f V"f O ooa a ta aoa o.a oa.o 27,
Radical solutJ.ou of aoo aaa oao oao ooaa 29,
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Phllosophy concerniag sAL ENrxul,I: on the

use of SAL EI{IXU}I in Alcheny. Fron aorf,e

Manuscripts of Sir Keneln Digby.

T ra n s l a te d ftom the Getman

The follorLng ilalla Enrla are the Source of genuine Chenlstry.

Curlous operatlone ln Anlnal, Vegetable and l|lneral Substancea are per-

forned rlth tbeo relatlve to Medl.clne and the Transmutatlon of Metals.

e Enl)nrn of Strange Virtues.

l. Dissolve a great quantlty of sea O o" comonQ ia clean Raln

V r fllter the solution and let 1t evaporate gentry, until a skln

appears, collect thls Ski.n w:itb a lTooden Spoon aad put lt by.

Contlnue the Evaporatlon untll a New SkJ.n appears on the Surface,

collect thJ.s also and put 1t to the forner.

Contlnue to evaporate your Llquor, unt1l it ylelds no nore Salt on

the Surface.

T h e s e S ki n s o fe , o n the.Sur face of the Llquor contain the pu r es t

-rt- of Q and the nost Subtll and nost A y Atonee of e , whlch poasesses
strange aad unknown Vlrtuesl

Tou nust collect a great quantity of thlE @ rror the surface, by

evaporatloa, as a good provlelon of it ls very useful.

Take nox all your r as nuch aE you bave corlected fron. the
Q
 4

surface by Evaporatlon, e:qrose lt to a cool A ana let lt flow per de-

llqutu*r until it
ls becomea fat saline
V , welgh thls V and ad,d
atr equ1l quantity of f" of
A? to rt, and I e t it s t a n d A 4 h o u rs .
Then distil lt, but ln a very gentre heat unt1l it renains thlck
ILke honey.

(f would,tahe a Volltal.o_
sucb ss ![s..r.-
", + , ", +
of ABBEI
RoussEAII;1f you take the pond,erlous
&"t +, rectlfy rt flrst per 6e,
so aa to nake l.t clear like roct p
i ff you dlstll tbe above nlxture
tn a gentle heat, a yellor'Jr- of sea
Q aoes cone over, rhilst the heavy
o
OO of reuralns behiad wlth the gross part of your e I
The -n- rhich you have d.istllled over, pour back on the Reslduun, and
let i.t staad qulet as before d.urlng 24 hours, to attract the Celestial
Iafluetces.

Thea dlstirl the-rr-. fron lt agaia, in a gentle heat, untll lt becones

tbl'ck llke honey. By thls attraction aad secoad dlstlllatlon tbe e
1111 becone nore pouerful, fuslble and of greater vlrtue, on account of
the union rnLth the purest heavenly fnflueaces.
ff you repeat these operatloas j or 4 ttnes, your uAff lncrease
e
1n power and vlrtue, aad wlrl nelt in a
[ , with a snarr heat, aad rvirl
be extreenly fuslble llke a e alcali.
*lth thls o o'l"un you nay .lssorve a o g ia a phlal, placed
1n bot;iii. , and s1th such a dlesolved
of o curtou" operatlons nay
$/
be perforned on An*na1sr Vegetablee
and Meta1s.
rf thls solution ls dlgested. rn a nost gentle antnar beat, a great
confllct wtlI happen, rbereby the eubject is fiaalry very
aucb exalted.
 I'IOT.A.by the 8O of A iaentioned in this process ls also neant the
n
4- of A.
1'
(This process is somewhat dark, it seems that the renainiag hoaey

like Reslduun ls to be evaporated and nelted lato a fuslble ANDROGYNAL

, calIed. gAt EI{IXUM, partairlng of both Sexes

l[< and alcal.J-.
I would rather dlsttl up and dowa per@, untl1 Do Bore would cone

ove r , a a d , then take lt out for u s e l l: c o h o b a t in g t h e & rl

The author hlnte that a Tlncture can be nade with th1-s fusl.ble e ,
inpregnated urith the unlversala-, capable to cause O to di-e and to

be r e g e n e r ated!

The process ls truly natural, if we consider that the first corporif-

lc a t l o n o f th e u n l ve rsa l A i s in the unlver salf , ioO and SeaQ ,

takJ-ng a body of CONCEI,ITRATED
RADICAL EUMIDITYI 1.8. ALCALf; and by

neans oflT{
-a aad. alcall, NATURE,1.e.-r}- Mun*L, generates, putrlfies,

destroys and regenerates all things. See SIR KENELI.{DIGBYTSCHYI"IIC.AL

EXPER. page 1r1. Accordlng as one or the other prlnciple predonlnates,

lt causes preservation or Destruction, or when in perfect Sarnony, rvhich

is th e n A SA L E NfX Ulf, Generatio n l S e e Dig b y p . lJ l. )

ft is proper here to g iv e y o u t h e c u rio u s

unlversal-rt-of A fron ABBETROUSSEAU.

+

Se cr e ts et Renerdes eprouvre s . p . p a r d e f u n t Mo n s . L I A B B E T RO I I SS E A , U ,

c y de va a t Capucln et nedecla d e S a Ma je s t e . P a ri6 1 6 9 7 . -8 (o f L o u ls X I V )

-'J
 --n-of + .

rr11 give tbe folloldng Exanple as a new proof of the neans, whl,ch
are s'metlmes necesaary, to exclte TEE MAGIfETTCAL
vrRTuE, (Rad:ical Hunid-
ity) shea it is becone too flxed aad asleep.
Take 5 ot +J of good Flowers of A r put tb,en lnto a grass body,
r'?
pour upon it 5 or 6 tfunes as nuch 1n weight
of good_cr- of
O , and dis_
ti l a ll the-a- fron lt by aa e a s y h e a t , t h e b o d y
b e in g p la c e d , ro : 1 . . .;
cohobate the eanrerr- , whlch ls cone over, by pouring lt back upon
the { , and dlstll tt fron i-t agaia, and repeat
+ thls operatlon g or
l0 tln e s.

You lnay 1lkewise do tb1s operatlon by a tabulatedl@.

The retrai-n1.ns being exp o s e d t o a f ln e c le a r cool A, a t t ra c t s
+
the r L o f theA agd deternines o
that-cr- to the nat ure of o-oot ^ .
+
( 0Ua e r ve how this coaflrns ny system, that the flrst corporiflcatlon
of the-a-l'luadi or uaiversal[ by means of hunldi.ty 1s in the Acld or
beco,nesACID!)

T h i s a ttra cti o n
i s so p o wer ful, that 4
L o, + , tr eated in the
above nalulert rill y1eld after dlstillatlon 2 7. ot-rrr squsfly strong
aad of tbe same quality as the-- or$ nad,e( ro" ur""" Be1l.
Thus 4 o, fixed and rend"""I nagnetlcal by-n- of
2 + O attract
and yield at every distlllatton z of-rr- ; and the reaalnlng
J, "t+
flxed 1" a perpetual Magnet to attract the sane--c-for ever; and,
? what
is renarkable, the-$- of
O whlch has served to flx the A and nake it
?
magaetlcalr looses none of 1ts qualitles by th1s operation, but renalas
the sane.
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Is thls not a suffi.cieat a n d we ll e s t a b lj-s h e d p ro o f , t o p e rs u a de

the most unexperienced as well as the unbelieving, and to convince thern

of the perpetual Action of the llniversal Spirlt? \Thj.ch f call for good

reasons the Uaiversal Mercury of the Philosophers! Becauee he dlssolves

all thlngs and unites hinself to all Things by an inexbaustlble lndefat-

igable and pernanent Actj-ou!

(See ny Phllosoph: Msc. Enblem of the Aadrogynal FLgure)

Exalting Beiags to a la.ore noble and nore perfect State by the Conm-

un ica tl on of the-a- fron above , wh lc h is t h e S o le a n d o n ly Ca u s e o f

perfection in all Nature.

Thus far A,BBETR0USSEAU.
/: see a lso Le Febvres "Chymis t ry " a n d S a l L u me n e t S p irit u s Mu n d i P h il o s o p h i : 7

Ano ther fusible SAL EliIXUl{.

Take good,VFg.o. add.-c- of (Er, gradually untll a Q is praecipitated,

whlch 1s easily separated and coagulated. Dtstil the.rt- s fron th.ls

Q ee"g@ cohobate the.rr- back and distll the-n- fron it agaln, and

repeat tluls operation, until the reraainlng O i" beconoeperfectly fusible.

fnpregnated, Spiritual Salts i.e. Salla Enixa

for Tl n c t u re s .

T,bese Salts are made by tro \Tays:

they ard d1sti1led fron such Ingred.ieats as abound ln Tlncture.

Take-*l- of Sea e , or.rr-of (D , well rectifi-ed, pour it on poudered

Calanlne Stone (the red Calanine or Calan:Laarls fron AfX LL CHAPELIE

 I

is the richest ia Europe) dlgest and extract tbe TR. (there ls red,,
yellow, grey and brorn Cal_aniae and, sone j-s spotted,)

Pour the TR. frone the sedlnent; then distil tbe:r- over per1frylth
a strong beat raiii. ; Th,e TR. 1111 cotne over with tb.e-a. you nust
.
cohobate the.G- several tines upoa tbe Residuum untll the TR. does cone
O V €1.

PrecJ.pitate this comosj.ve acld rR. with-cr, of uat1l tb,e

eX
Effe r ve ssence ceasosr

when lt ls now inpregnated trith the.*r- of

eX , dllute it witb
V a &d filter it.

Tbis flltered Lye ls full of , which nust be evaporated. until

+
i t is a SaI Enl:nrn.

Or

Take O a n d @, o r r ed e, I par t r educe lt

"t 4, to f no,r " upon
lt etx: dlssorved ln falr ! , dlstil the p , fron i.t per Alenblcun
aad a red' transparentrl- of e+( vi1I
come over, inpregnated with
$ .
The second nethod to prepare these Spiritual Salts Ealx or Sulphur-
eous Salts; is as follows;

Take t"v you 1ike, praeclpltate it out of the Lye, dlssorve ln

$
that tye a-<r- of
Q , whicb bae been asirnated,by 1ts o*a+ salt Enlxe,
and tb'is-&- of Q wlrl becone red on the spot, aad nuch sooner if the

+ of O has been ad,d,ed.

Thl's-o-is a gradating t1n61ngJL, after it has been rectlfled.
 9

(tbe above process ls very dark, f could aever conprehend 1t.)

Preclpitate theJt- of $)( flrst, as has been told above, and by

theee Eeals you r!lL obtaln a tinged and t1nglng e .
Evaporate tLe hun{ d1.ty oyer a gentle heat, bolL the reuainder, aad
you rtll obtala lfalversal Tlnctures rhlch can be exalted by new SolutLonsl
thJ.g ray le good.

SAt El{IXm{ i-npregnated

Salt D ls tlnsed tnto O

wlth
H; wtth thls

, and lnto
Y
D andO .

lhe Sulphurlous e Enlxun.

rarres
?-T I
, C) ana$ -ad,
r $ , 6 ,r, tt, Flli.assor &^ou o, 6
EX 4 reducetbe rngredlente to d , aad ntx thenn add t/4 ttot
3,
poudered, Charcoall tben fulnlnate your d ," a very large I I or pto-
-t
Ject your $ graeually lnto a red hot roonf
I I and after the wbo].e l.s
f,ulntnated, l,et lt renaln 5 bours ln the A .
If you add nor sone connoa
@ , the Operatlon url1I succeed nuch better.
The Wb,oleSecret conslets ln thle: that you consune the Satrts entlrely,
wb,5.ch,
Salts conode fb,e&, and traneforn We Q lnto aaA a TR.
$
(tnfs 1s a valuable Hlnt at the Short way of the Adept t who spoke

to EELVETIUS, see GOLDET{

CALF. I have attenpted tt ln Mary 1 e bone, but

c ou ld n o t succeed. )

Nor takc tbe rena5.nlng Subetance out of the lot I and tbros lt
I
 10

l nto bo ir in g hot p ia a bason, p ra c e d , j. n h o t : : : , , a n d re t it b o il for

seve r a l h ours.

If you should haveleft, whl.eh has not entirely been coroded

"o^"tU
*
by the fulmen, you nust reduce it to d and add 1t to the Re s t in t he

baso n , to be boiled alltogether f o r ? o r g h o u rs ; a a d , y o u w1l1 obtaln

a deep red LJ-xivj.un.

Praeclpitate your Ll:dv1un wlth.a- of CI) , i_a order to obtaln the

Mercurial Sa1 Eni xun.

This requlres an Illustratlon. The Lixlvlum looks li.ke Blood, and

as l t coo ls the grose dark rea { f a lls t o t h e b o t t o n o f it s e I f .
?
I have poured the red Lye, whlch becones clear, fron the Sulpburlous

sed in e n t; r dlluted it w"ith 20 o r n o re p a rt s o f c le a r and thea

V,
dropped, ny.$- of O out of a snall phial lnto the diluted Sulpburious
Lver and,a beautlfur Mercurrar proceedlng fron 6 q is prae-
$ C f
clp itated to the botton of tb,e b a s o a s o f a n o s t b e a u t lf u l
-
S c a rle t Co 1 o u r .
Before exteasioo wlth p aad before the praeclpltatlon rith.a- @3
the Sulphurious Lye gilts basons a n d g la s s f u n n e ls , b u t wh e n t h e A is
f
alo r e r se p arated fron the alcali i t gil t s no thing . As soon as the -J\- o f

O , \f or strong Vinegar comesin c o n t a c t wi t h t h e A lc a lin e Lye, a

n ost in tolle rable snell o f rotto n E g g s is p e rc e lv e d t h a t s a n e I n s t a n t.
( I have renarked or no tlc e d tbe se phenomena, where I cornneated on DE LA

tsRIES PROCESS)

fn tbe above nentloned manner the Sulphurious

Q nnixun 1s nade.
Now, proJect your onoo crude @ , frowin6 in a aad ret th,ese
$ V ,
t w o n e l t a n h o u t to 6 e th e r. P our it out lnto a glazed Ipen Vessel-and
you w'111have a red e .
 t1

rn thls red,Q are the sutphurs of 6 Qfana (r have attenpted

9.
this, and the (D ot furndaating wlth the sulphurs, flow out or theI
all a t on ce. )

weLgb your rea Q and dissorve in hot V , filter the solution, ad,d
as narlr ouncea& ot(Eu your Q ara welgh.
""
(ln the roou of & of (h , r wouId always nake use of the-a- of
accordlag to ABBEf ROIISSEAU)

Evaporate the tiquor uetil you have a dry Q . Thls Q wilr be nuch
nore powerfulr i.f you distil the-cr- fron itl and pour 1t back, and re-
peat this Cohobation unt1l tbe Q Enixun renains dry. Thus you have
prepared a Sulphureous and nercurial tinglng Enixun.
Q

Its use.

D l s s o lve fl n e I i n \p , pr aecipltate it nr lth a gr eat quantlty of

eV(i.e. a so l u tl o n o f pur ifiedQ cotr r ioV ) ln or der tbat the

volatile e naaybe uore easily Separated. fron the flxt. Pour tbe V off,
wash tb.e g and dry tt: This is corn"".
I )
Dlesolve your d,rled, ) co"o"", whi-ch is half volatillsed by thls

si.np r e p r o cess, ln your e En ix u n j-n a g la s s b o d y p la c e d in h o t : : i. ,

lacreaslng your heat, until the Q Enixun nelts and dlssolves tUe I Q)
Wbenthe Solutlon l-s flnlshed,, Iet tUe A go out, and before tt is?
qulte co1d, pour hot cleaa p upon 1t, fllter the Solutlon, and preserve
lt for further us€.

Ia the sane manner dlesolveOoia New QEnixun, or Natlv"+,

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wb .enl t is dlssolved by the Q , pour bot p u p o n it , a a d f ilt e r the

solutlon. ft nay also be done in s. Pour both Solutj-oas together

I
aad evaporate the hunidlty until Dryness. This dry Substance i.s semj.-

vola tl l e.

Put lt ln a r covered wlth its Ltd, and nelt lt gradually, where-

I
by it wj.ll be fixed again.

The use of thi s f ix e d Substancs.

Pour hot p upon lt an.d dlssolve it, fllter the Solution, which put

into a digestlng glass. Drop lnto thls Solutlon a few very thin Lanels
of Q , not thlcker than paper, and, let the Solution boil ,2 { ,
? ^oa
and the Q tanetla w111 be fixed, aad exalted lnto I which contaias l/4
t
part of flne
O .
l.{elt these transnut"d Larnella ln a , and you will obtain a pure
Q
+ V
) andQa U.
But tbe Q nust be 5:ted witb F or with Q ot 6, , or vrith black
*?
FIux, or wlth Calclaed fillngs of O .

Ob se r ve that the"" Q s c a n a lwa y s b e u s e d a g a in , after they bave

served your purpose as they do not loose thelr virtue.

Operation to prepare e ENIXUMln a glass

ph181,

Dissolve a very subtll and, well prepared, @ in Q nnixun, then

9 "f
 13

p r a e cip ltate the @

Y.
n {.F out o f t h e S o lu t lo n a s y o u k n o w, a n d k e e p j . t

fo r u se here after.

(fUe Solution
of the (jl of Q in Qnnixur nust elther be done ia
?
Coated glass bodtes placed in a j'i,l. heat, or in good s wh,ich do not
I
1et the Enlxun run through, as it ls so-extreemly fuslble and penetrat-

ln g . )

Take tire { of Calanine fron process N.B.1 grind it with Q nirable

?
aIId. dlssolve i.t thereln ln a i.'l'.heat, nake a Solutioa and =5= te the

+ , and reserve

Unite and nix tfris

it llkewise for use

of Calanlne rttb tbe above @ or Crocus,

$ " +
nix it w l th Charcoal Dust ald f ix it d u rin s 2 4 h o u rs in a [ .

Take the Substance out and dlssolve lt again f" O Enixun, nake a

Solution andS; te the fixed put thfs into a dlgestlng glass,

+ +,
$, {,
add e Ealxurn, which. is very fusible,

Tfre Q En:lxurn xri1l nelt and dissolve the two Sulphurs and ualte

ceatrally and iaseparably therewlth.

Sh u t the phial Close aad 1 e t lt s t a n d t o * ig e s t , u n t il 1 t is b ec o n e

a genuine TR. j-n the forn o f A RED e .

fts lrs € .

Dlssolve th5.s red fixed Qand. ftlter the Solution, put lt lnto a
dlgesting glass, with or tbin 1anlnated 3 I 1et it boil f
"or" fl ^oa
d rc,2 or , d I and th"rf the J wtlr be trassnuted, into fine @ .
""
I n t h l s o a n n e r yo u ca n o per ate wlth ever y after lt has beea
+,
 l4

fixeC $ri th poudered, Charcoal ,

.L
Tofl x U ofO .
T-

(I think the Autb,or must nean o, ot 6 the puri tted.Q 6 d

H
St ella tus, )

Take fixed, o* Crocus of O i!, dlssolve both unlted

A "t $ "oa 4
iu Q drabile, ln a coated glass bod.y, placed la a il'i'. heat. Then nake

a Solu ti on , and iFte the s o u t o f it .

$
Thl-s praecipitated d,ouble fixed nust be dl.ssolved agaln in your
$
fuslble Q nn:.xun ln a digestlng globe, and nust be d.igested i-n hot

,'.'.'. untll they are united and fixed into a REDQ .

Its use.

Th1.s flxed red ting:-og e nust be dissolved and filtered, aad tbe

Solutlon nust be poured into a dlgesting glasso

rryoumu f, o r6ln thls r or Sor 4 / ^na f , n"

9"t $* r ,
infalltbly be flxed l-nto good and, pernanent Q !

(MR. GARDENtold rne Baay years ago, that he has seen a Strauger,

who sb,owed hln A nfO @ whlcb he to1d, hin did change ) fnto , 1f
Q
it was bolled 24 hours la a Solutlon roade of his red O ; ndght thls
not have beea such A RED SAL &TfXUI*fas bere taugbt? The Stranger said

Lt naintained bi.n very well) (nost of tbese processes are dark and no

proportloas are set down, at least aostly aot. )

 t,

sAt ENTXUMimpregnated, lrith A o

r

Ta ke a n y metafffc bu t b e s t of O, a d d a f u s lb le Q n n fxu n
$, " +
and let them be well ualted by neltlng togeth,er ln a [ ; and you urll1
obtaia A RED e t whlch ls a red.Q n TR. wherewlth your Qnnrxun ls
iu,pre6aated.

Dlssolve 1t in fair [ , after having welghed 1t, ad,d as nuchfO ot

(h o"-t- of (h as the red weighed, evaporate and you w111 agaln
Q
have a e EilrxuMHrcHLyrrNGED.
rn thls Q rnrxun diesolve agaia of O , and proceed as above,
""" $
and your red Q wf1l bave a greater tl.nglag power, rvhj.ch perforne yor-

der s uponU o t 6 .
+
Tb:Ls operation le nost artn{ rable for other woaderful operatlons.

0bse rv e

Tbe has alnost as great an Effect as trre of O , wb.en

+ "f d $
fi.xed.,to exalt tbe ot $ roto @, and ls obtaised at an easyer Rate.
H

t
of the Red, Tinctures of O and. C , which
ti ngeA i nt o O .

(tAts process il-Iustrates sone of the others, relitlve to proportions

and nethod of worklng)

Dlssorve flne @ i" O Enlxun (r suppose the Author Beaas a got

 16

O 't as h e nentions !a tbe pro c e s s $ o . l at the end of tt.)

add to 1t a fixed or take 1 part of fine @ and J parts of

+ "f 6 ;
A 6Clst"tt. nelt it together lnto a brittle rnassa, shich reduce to
a black subt,il d o Dissolve thls in your fusible Q fn:-xun 1n J hours
tine by neltlng it ln a I o

lheu pour warm p upon it, dl.ssolve and filter the Solutlon, out of
+
this So1utlon praecipitate the red A - Now you have the O and O
il
unlted.
,\
Dry your *d project lt ia purifled connonO , which is nelting
?
in a , a nd let it flor therein 2 h o u rs .
V
Tb.eapour the Q out, aad. you urfll have A REDTR. Of O o*O $ .
(not innediately) (f tUfnt ln th,e roon of conmon purifled , the Salt
Q
process l{o. l. Should here be taken, because the Author nentlons at the

e n d o f pr o cess l{o. l. ttlf you d , is s o lv e o f O ia t h i-s Q etc.tl

" V
Th1.s process i,s perforned wlthout addlng Charcoal Dust. )

Iour RED TR. nust be pulverised, and d1ssolved j.n warn V , and the
solrrtion filtered: then add as nuch fo or 6, , as the red TR. wei-ghed,
and, distll tbe-&. over per g@, by several Cohobations, unt1l the Q

renalns dry behind--- Tbis is now a SaI Enixun inpregnated 'rj.th the
&
tiaglng powers of O aad Q .
(Tbis Last operation ls Becessary, if we take only PURIFfED COMMON

e , but if we take THEe ENfxUMNO. I, this operatlon would be need-

less and superfluous. )
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fte V irt u e and us€r

Helt the above tj_n6ed

e enfxuraln a V, ad,da tp .
"f e
Further you nust have ready sone good alcallsea
$ , noadeby deton-
natlon ,fltth Cbarcoal ia coarse d .
Add thri s to the folloring lnassa in the
V , add, it in a noelting
state, let it flux together z h o u rs o r 2 1/ 2 , t h e n p ro j e c t in t o this
alcalisea Q Enixun, sone pieces of flne ) coio or Lanella of flne
J
and le t it staad 4 or 5 hou rs lo n g e r in fusj-orrr covering your , that
V
no coals nay falr ia, and all your
) will be graduated, into most Dure
, but the massa nust be c o p e lle d . ,

A Red TR' of conn o n is p re p a re d a s f o ' lo ws .

Af

Take (D , !:
E+ ana comrnoo
A pouder the rngredl ents and nix then.
s? &r
Then pro j ect the nixture gradually, b y a S p o o n f u l a t a t ime , in t o a
V r standing heated in the lVind- f urnac € r and the nixture vrlIl fulnin-
ate and det,onnate, vlhen the wb.ole q
u a n t lt y ls p ro je c t e d , re t the alcal-
i sed Re n aidng naatter flow a wh ire .

Then dlssolve the nass ln hot p , filter the solution and praecip_
i ta te i t, and you wil1 obtain a golden
+ fron comxro" , thls w&f,
+
Project this d,ried A tnto puri fied and reelted
? e , which stands
flo win g i.na and,y ou w111 o b t a in
V; A RE DQ .
DlEsolve tbis rea Q ln connon p , filter the sorutioa, and as
much as the red welghed, add OO of
o
e or f" of (Er , distil the-.n--froa
+
 lg

it by several Cohobations, as f have tau6ht before, untl1 your irapreg-

Eated e Enixun renains d,ry.

Another wonderful and very fusible SaIt called

SAL MTRABTLE.

o
Take 1 part o-o of (h, and 2 parts $( . Dlssolve the eX first
la connon clean p, and f1lter the Solutlon. Then drop gradually your

& otQ, into the Solution oreX ; dlst11 tt p"4fu, and.a valuable

-cl- of e wll1 come over lnto the Receiver, which-fu of e , when rect-
ified per se, is very good, and dlssoJ-ves a (l) of @ o"ry soor.
?
(Glauber ls the Inventer of e Mirabile; the preseat Q $rabl1e

or so called Glaubers Salt aaswers no purpose ln .A,lcherny. As it ls

mad.eby a dlfferent process aow; and. is no longer Glaubers Q nn:.xun.)

In th e botton of the1Q, o r g la s s b o d y , if y o u h a v e u s e d a B o dy

and Alenbic, remalns TgE SAL I,IIRABIIE dry 1n Crystals.

Thi.s our Q mirabile is very fusible aad dj-ssolves Q v"ry 6ooa,

e lthe r ln a [ , or in a coat e d g la s s b o d , y p la c e d in b o t * . .

But in order to facilltate the Operatlon, proceed ln the follovrtng

nanller.

The same process tnttb a of O .

V

After you have unlted the So1utloa of e* wi-th your 8o of Ou , add

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.9 of O , then distil the (i-n what proportion?)-rr-- fron it per Alem-

bicurnn and the of O w111 be dissolved, and renains with tne Q nir-
Q)
r
abile. TheJl- which conea over nust be poured back and cohobated upon

the Residuun 5 or 6 t1mes.

Take your Lnpregrated Q rdrabtld out, and ad,d,a U.tt1e fixed 4 ot

+
Q t dlgest and tbey 'ri1I be uaited and flxed togetb.er.

Thls Operation is perforned in a Phia1, whlch nust be strong, on

account of the force of the spi-rlts, wh,ich break a weak glass.

End of Si'r Keneln Digbyf s process concern-

ing the Doctrine of Sa1 Enixun, Traaslated

from the German. 1797.

For the sake of useful kaorvledge, I sbaIl, Join here sonrething fron
Ab b e r R ousseau.

Conti-nuati-on o f Experl&ents.

I have uuderstood slnce some years, that the univereal , by PARA-

e
CELSUSand VAN FELMONTcalled the PRfliUM ENS Of e , i.s nothlng else

than the unlversal.n- and unlversal Dlssolvent, corporifled ln the nost

slnple of all sublunary Salts, belng as it were an eabryonated Serclnal

e.
Tbls Q ts not found, separately in Nature, but it can be separated

fron tbe Body of other e as thelr EE.A.RT,

LfFE ANDCEI\IIRE.
",
/t tue Li.fe and centre of everJ, e is A dilated ln llunidity, and ln
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that State is called,J'l-. , wben perfectly free fron Hunl-dity, it appears

thea is the Character of a Volatil dry e , as we see it in volatil or

sublined g* , whicb. is a dry-rr- ot El wi.thout phlegna. :/

Th is S eparation can trot c o n v e n ie n t l; . ' b e done without the Actlon of

that very same universal-.*.. dispersed, ln the A and j-n all thj-ngs !

Which universal--rL- (in A ) corporifying itself slth this universal

e r decorporlfies lt again and renders it i-ncoagulable, and th5-s un1-

versal Q Proceeds fron Sea \/ , nay i-t is the verJr Life and Soul there-
of . (s eae .)

( tnts is au lndlsputable Truth! The first DETERI,IINATION

0F Ti{E

u NM RSAL COLDA Or NA TURE,wh e n it d e s c e a d s in t o t h e o c e a n , (e le c t .

A, L lg ht, Heat and burnioeA ) is in t o that p r1 n c lp le , wh ic h raa k e s

tbe whore ocean SALT, and frequently appears LUMrNous at night, rhen
A
a g itated ; fn tbe sane naaner a s t h a t Un ' iv e rs a l A in c lo s e s it e e lf la the

sane unlversal and descend,s into ghs , and whereever lt fj-ad.s a

f V'
pr o p e r M agaet or A lca1ine body ; it c o p u la t e s t b e re wlt h a n d a s s u n e s a

CRYSTALINEBODYr caIled @ r as it acsures a Crystalline bod,y in the

Sea p , when concentrated eit h e r b y t h e S u a (it s g re a t A g e n t ) o r b y

connon A I (We need. not wonder then, that JEAN SAUI{IERaccording to

the Testlnony of FATHERGABRIEL DE CASTAIGNEand others nade the Stone

out o f the P rlnun E ns of S ea Q r wh lc h , h e f e rn e n t e d wt t h a ot O,

V
the process ls ln prlnt ia the WORKSOF JEAN SAUIIfER publlshed at Parls

durtag tbe last Centuryl f have never 6eetr the Book) (We fj.nd a process

up o n Se a Q tn the S econd vo1. o f B o e rb a a v e rs Ch y n is t ry , we ll wo rt h y

of N otl ce. )
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I have shoym to sone friends what this O l"t but I do aot think

they wi-ll ever take the Trouble to camy it to that perfectione lt is

ca p a b le of being brought to, b y A rt a n d p a t ie n c e !

Procesa upon Sea V , in order to obtain

the first Ens of e , or the very Leven of

e and its Life andr!., .

tbe process upoD the Mother Lye of (h f" the very

Note that @ and
sane as this upoa the Mother Llquor of Sea Q r

It ls very curlous to observe in the flrst preparatioa of tbis Q

(Mother Llquor is Prinun Ens Salls) the dlfferent Flgures of Crystals

and the dlfferent sne1l and taste of then, proceedlng from the Sea[ ,

before Lt is reduced to a State, (by contj.aual evaporatlons and Cryst-

allatlons) so as to crystalllse no nore, but remalas aa oily Mother

Llquor, whereln ls Prinun Ens Sa1is.

It becones then a Llquor wh,lch !s lscoagulable and w.i1I not cryst-

allise; a th:Lck and fat V of a Flery Taste, attractlag conti.aually

the U nlve rsal-.(!-, in the S h a p e o f h u n id 1 t y out of theA'. (d o e s t b i s

not fu1ly confirn ny Doctrlne of the lln-tversal--cr- ?)

TbJ.s fat natter resolves itself lnto a yery poaderous Oilr wblch

!s dlstillable !n a,iii. heat, lf you have but patience sufflclently.

It rlses Ln th,e1Q ln the aane nanner as Eoney does and requlres

a gr e a t deal of tlne, attentlo n a n d p a t ie n c e .

After the dlstlllatlon of thls & , tbere remains a Reslduun, whlch

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ls FUSfBLE LfKE YIAX, aad which by Labour, Art and patience all cones

over as a--a- and volatile , without nixing any internediate Substance

e
thererith such as bole or clay, which would absolutely destroy it.

The whole Substance of this n""""s over lnto the recej-ver aa a

Q
Llquor and this ls not of triffllng Conslderatloa, as lt ls a proof tbat

i't is now become of a Universal Nature.

After this I thi.nk it rould be superfluous to ask fron whence the

SaIt proceeds in the Ocean. As we see clearly that is is nothing else

but a sesslble and VlsJ.b1e Corporfication of the UnJ.versal Sal Mundl,

which is lnvisibly dispersed tbroughout all Nature and resldes ia the

vast Extent of tUe A , where it ls generated and nultipIled by means

of the Sunts and. Mooars Light and the Stars.

All tbe great Philosophers, slnce llernes Trlsneglstus, have taught

thls Doctriner but as they have not proved it by Experinent, as f bave

doner out nodern little Philosopherts have looked upoa that Doctrine

as a Meta-physical Chynaera and have rldl.culed tt : although it is an

e sse a ti al Truthr founded on t h e in v a ria b le p rin c ip le s o f Na t u re !

Observe that you ought to have at least 400 Ib. weight of Sea V ,
ln order to obtain a reaaonable or noderate quantity of the PRIMUMENS

sAlrs.

My Experlnent on (Eu o

I have coacelved that th5.s process nlght be brought to a greater

perfectlonr ln order to obtaln a Dlssolution of the Vi.trioli-c Body,

I
I
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wh'ich night be nore simple aad nore aainated wj-th the uni'rersal-n

For that reason I have nade use of a Certain O ri-c \/ , which

is fatt thick and. blackish and renains behind ia the Coppers, after

the l ast Crystallations or co a g u ra t io n s o f @1 .

This(f ric p resembles that which ls cal1ed MOTEER

OF O .
At Silvenat where they nake ronan or blue , this i"tother Liquor
G\
ls thrown awayr But at the Mines 1n Dauphine, it ls kept and nrade use

of to hunect or inbi.be the Q ric f,'ritU, ia the sane nanner as the

O nakers pour their renainlng MOTIIER

OR (D LyX upon tbe vitreous {/
and this is a Magnet,and Leven to hasten the Dissolution and Corrupt-

io n of theirV , They bave no need of this at Silvena, wher e t,he

Gt Or e is resolved into a Liquor by being exposed to the A.

(Tbe sazre ls practlsed at BLACKi'/ALL
at the@ Manufactory; several

IO O V/e ig h t of P Y RITE S , whi-ch ls a$ O r" a n d " is f o u n d , p le n t if u lly j- n

+
IIAI-IPSHfRErlays exposed to tne A the whole year round, attracts the

un ive r sa l A of Nature enclos e d in A e ria l h u ro id lt y , d e t e rn in s it s e lf

bere towards(B; , and thereby runs per deli.qui-un into large Cisterns
uaderaeath and becomes A(E[ RIC CORROSIVE
LIQUOR, whereia they d.issolve

afte r sa r d s o1d iron; filter t h e S o lu t io n a n d e v a p o ra t e , r' / h e n t h e y o b t a i n

th e Eng llsh green V itriol or s o c a lle d CO P E R. A)S .

I ha ve coasidered that tbis n o t h e r L iq u o r o f (h is a Leven oa@1 ric

$ in tne same nanner as the nother Liquor of O t" a !,iagnet and Fer-

nent on Nltrisus V, ; that this nineral Fernent proceeds from the cor-
porification of the USfVERSALtr'ERl'{ENT,
deternined. towards the Nature

o f the Or er to act agreeable t o t h e s u b je c t ; c o n s e q u e n t ly r t h o u g h t

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that one nigbt corporify sti1I more of the universal-n- j-ato this nin-

er a l- Fer n ent, and cause it to b e n o re a c t iv e -b y a g re a t e r abundaace

and Concentration of the sane universal Dissolvent, so that the.-r- which

we ni.ght obtaia therefron by di.stillation, nlght be a Natural Dlssolvent

for netals to reduce them into a Gr, ric Q , without Corruptlon, as

we aee that tb,e-n-of the @ Uquor is a Leven or Fernent and. RADICAL

DISSOTVENTof stones and Marb1e, which it reduces into their FIRST dis-

tlllab1e },fATTER,whlch j-" O .

Although Stones and Iarble possess ao apparent q u a lit y of Sa1t, yet

b y ne a n s of the Leveu, tbey be c o n e p u re a n d p e rf e c t O r frona which you

nay di-stil a corrosiveJt- oi\2, as from any other
O
It is renarkable that a connon.rt-of (D does by no neans effect thls

Resolution of Stones and Marb1e lnto dlstillaUle , aA the.Jr- dOeS

@
which is di.stj-lled fron the MOTHERtIqUOR or Fernent of 0 . fs this

no t a pr o of of the Universality o f s u c h a -. n -?

This has caused ne to tirink, tbat TEE I'IOTHER

LIQUORof(Er, being

prepared in the sane nanner, rnlght be made AN EXALTEDFERI'IENTto di-s-

so lve r o e tals V ia bunida lnto a @ric S a lt , wh ic h wo u ld a p p ro a c h n e a r e r

to the fi r st natter of netals, t h a n if t b e y we re d is s o lv e d by the connon

usual Corosives! In the sane nallner as t" the Result of a Solution

O
of Sto n e s and Marble. ft see n s t b a t lt ls t h e s a n e O p e ra t io n o f Nat u r e ,

only d,ifferlng ln the Speciflcation or deternlaatlon, as we see@r aad

@ pr o a u ced, by Nature ln tbe s a t re n a n n e r. (I a n p e rf e c t ly of the

Ab b o tfs opinloa.)
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P rocess with the i , f o t h e r L iq u o r of q .

(that of BLACK1VALL
or NE1VCASTLEis tbe very tiquor here intended. )

I took about a lOO plnts of this mother Li-quor of (h , f have f11-

tered lt through stroag Llnnen and evaporated lt gradually over a gentle

Heatr uatil a Ski-n appeared on the surface. Afterwards f placed lt ln a

Cotd, place d.urlug , J , to crystalllse all the@s whlch it night

f
coBtn i D.

(I have done thls la Hary le bone, and obtained fron the BLACKITALL

Liquor a beautiful green Q, , whlch snelled like a honey Suckle. )

I have repeated this Operatlon, until I could obtala no nore@ o"

Crystals from ny tlquor.

Then I evaporated the tiquor further, on a gentle A , and took out

a few drops, wbJ.ch I put on a piece of Slate to cooln and found then of

a Consistesce of cold thick honey, whlch dj.d not run; Thus far f evap-

orated ny Llquor, unt1l f observed that sign, and then ceased evapor-

ating.

I poured ny h,ot Llquor oa several flat glaz.ed dlshes, that lt ndght

coageal 1n tbe CoId. After being cold, I set the Dishes in a Cellar

lncllsj.ng downwards over sone Chlna cups, to recelve the tlquor which

dld flor fron this $ubstance by attracting the A .

fn the sane nanner as flxed Q of flows per delJ-qulun. I left

E]
ny d,lshes standlng and attractlng, unttl the whole Substance d.lssolved

into a Llquor.

At the end there renalned a few snall Crystals la bhe dlsbesl wblch
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sou ld no t di.ssolve; I separat e d t h e n , a s u a e le s s t o n y p u rp o s e .

I filtered tbrough blotting paper the tiquor which ran dayly fron

the thj.ck substance, ln ord,er to obtaln it perfectly pure and rnore

inpregnated rlth the Uaiversal--a- .

tr bave repeated, these Ooagulations, Resolutions by the A and f11-

trations 6 or / tlnes, uDtil there renalned no nore Crystal nor any

V ta tt" flltre; at tbe ?th Operatlon ny last attracted, Liquor was

pe r fectl y pure.

This Labour dJ-d cost rce at least 6 nontbs tine, and procured Be a

Lhlck V of a dark brom colour and so fat, that I.t would aot pass tbro-

ugh the blottlng paperr except I wetted the paper flrst, and thea it
paesed very slorley.

Dlstlllatioa.

I put thls fat tlquor into a tabulated, glasu@, which I placed,

.a
j-n hot :::, , and nanlged ny dJ-stillatlon rrith great care and, patience,
because the natter puffs up and rises it $e@, like boney.

This puffing up and rising of the natter happens so frequently,

that it ls alnost lnpoesible to prevent it, lf you bave had an uacorulon

share of patiencet as r had, havlng euployed no ress tban 8 {

^oa 2
followlng to regulate th,e heat gently and equally uad.er the.'11i. , out of

fear tbat the whole substance night cone over all at once and destroy

ny Labour. Yet by patience I succeeded. (f would distlIl thls4-per.

Alenbic and place tbe body over a Balaeo Vap., if the-$-w111 cone over
tb,at way, )
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After f had finished ny dj-sti.llation, tbe botton of the Residuun

was OF A RUBY COLOUR,which threw out sparks llke nelted , whereof

Q
it se e n e d filled!

The upper part of the Reslduun, $as whl-te resenbllng nother of pearl,

brllllant and foliated like Russia Talck, and looked as lf it was full

of Orlental pearls.

This Restduun o" , whether it was d,istirred in a...ii. ueat or ln

O
a aaked A, had. no more taste than conmon

I have dlstilled it in a naked A , to obtain a3-l the beavyJr- s

from thls Resj.d,uum. Afterwards r exposea the@ to the*, and, it

aoon acqulred the saner.if* Tastel it had before distlllation.

I have poured back tbe distilled-n- upon tle , aed having dls-
@
tl}led agaln in a naked A , I obtalned, in about 10 h,ours tfuue a new

-tr-. , trh:lch was nelther aci-d aor corroslve, but sallne.

This second r exposed. to tleA , soon became reaainated with a

@
New-rt-; This Reanination succeeded 4 tines successi.vely. I trled lt no
fu r the r r but it seened that thls A t t ra c t io n h a d n o t c e a s e d , a n d I be l i e v e

1t would coatinue as long, as there renains , rvhich dj.ni-nlshes grad-

O
ua lly; r h ilst tbere is any lef t , it n e v e r c e a s e d t o a t t ra c t t h e lln lv e r s a l
..,,.sl-.

The Authors Experinent

o' ' 0 .

I have nade the sane Experinent on tbe Mother Liquor of ,

O
 2g

After having by Evaporatioa, separated. all tue (p eous crystals

fr o a i tn filtered and conce n t ra t e d t h e L iq u o r, r le t it ru a p e r de r -
i-quiun exposi-ng it to tU" * , tben filtered ny Liquor, Coagulated aad
l i qu ifl ed 1t agaj-n by attractlo n , a n d p ro c e e d e d a s I d ld wit h t h e M o t h e r
Liquor of(h and of sea Q , until there rernained no nore foeces in the
fl1 tr e.

Tbere is this Dlfference betvreea this natter proceed.j.ng from the

Mother Liquor of (D , and that of @, , that rItrE RESTDUUI{of the nother
of O , when dlst1lled wlthout any nixture of Bo1e, Brickd^ust or Clay,
there renaius, after the.n- is distilled fron it, a aetallic nass, white
like n1lk.

!'ronc thisr lf you nake a Lixlvlurn of it vrith [, you obtaia a very

whiteQ , whlch is fuslble like wax, and being exposed to theA frows
into a tiquor, rauch sooner thaa of .
Q
F
After having distilled theJr- , f took this fuslble white e , d,is-
so lve d l t by tUe A , filtered c o a g u la t e d , a n d , d is s o lv e d it s o o f t e n,
until no more foeces renained i-n the trtlltre.

Nor I cohobated ny d:Lsti1led-rt- upon this dj-st1lled Liquor, aad d.is-

tllled a-.<l- fron it again by a graduated heat.

There renained a snow wh.ite , which I exposed,to tire A

e , and it
became a Liquor whlch I fllteredr upor the Li-quor f again cohobated my

"rl- r and distl11ed lt fron lt as before. Thus I proceed.ed with the

reroaiaing , vhich dlnlnlshed at every distillation, exposing it
e each
tlne to tUe A , to be reinpregnated with tbe-n- ltundl. aad thereby Iiqu1-
fledr cohobatiug !cy-r'!.-upoa it, until all ny fixed fusibleg had, passed
o ver wt t h the-,rr-- into the Rec ei vs r o
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This Operatioa I perforned in e 8latr /fl.

fts V irtue and us€r

Thls aninated-tr- , as well as that nade of tbe Mother Llquor of

Sea Q , dj.ssolves Q radj.cally wlthout the least B o is e o r E b u llit io n ,

and camies lt over the Alenblc in a very noderate He a t .

It is renarkable altb,ough a Conmon-rr- of @ ai s s o lv e s U q d c k ly

fr
and. easily and, aot O ; yet thls ours- ot does not d,i.ssolve d at
Q t-
aII.

I poured someon U , and the U became as blacir as fnk j.n an 1n-

+?
stan t, a nd puffed up i-n the b o t t o m o f the glassr exactly lixe unslaked

\U , when you expose it to the * . After war ds the U tunbled asunder

? .ir f
i nto a q of itself, urithout mi. x in g wi t,h the Solvent .

Let our }fodern Philosophers refle c t j-n these phenomeoE r a6 well as

on thj.s quiet peaceable *issolution o fO r not effected bya coffosive

\Z , which cannot cany the d,issolvea Q over the Alembic; 'iYhilst our

Di-ssolvent dissolves it radically, aad volatilises i.t, instantaneously,

leavi-ng a snall portioa of theQ ia forn of a \'/hi-tef , whichf our

Menstruum d,oes trot dissolvo.

I shall not say any more of that Operation I nade oa the Seap ,

concentrated to a Mother Llquor and prlnum Ens of O , which I prepared

in exactly the sane rlarruer.

The Curlous Lovers of our Sclence w111 fi.nd still nore than I have

ur ltte a , 1f tbey bave patienc e .

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I must no,t onl t telling you that an aume of Sea V (un nuid Cf Eau

d e m er .) (about 44 gall) yeil d s no nore than one pint o f Flother Liquor

af te r th e S eparatj-on o f all the e c ry s t a ls a n d Co a ce n t ra t j-o n o f t h e

renaj-nJ-ng Liquor.

There are few people that would lnaglne that l.n Seap crystals are

to be found of all Sbapes and so many dlfferent qualltles!

(We nay then safely take 1t for granted, that ln the Oceaa, prinun

I]i{S SALIUM as the FIRST CORPORFTCATIO}il

OF TIIE I.\TVISIBLE COLDA Of $at-

urer J.s to be found, thj.s 1s conflrlred by Baron de i$elling who Says in

lnary places of h1-s Works that Sea Q (neanlng thj.s Mother Llquor) ls

the Mother of all Salts, and that the Universal U of the Philosopbers
+
is concealed therein, rbich Abbef Rousseau has denonstrated. by Dcperiment,

conseguently he has rendered us an emi-nent piece of Servlce!)

Th1s is not a triffling prove (says our profound Author) to confl,rn

uhat the true Philosophers have written, tbat Sea O o" rather Seap is

not only TgE ROOT0F ALL TEE SALTS, but also of all },l1nera1s and Metals.

(so is ; They both come fron one aad. the sane Fountaia, they are
Q
Trees whlch have thelr Roots 1n the $ and thelr Branches, Leaves, Blosson

and Fruit i-n V and V )

Tberefore, says tbe Abbot, that fat and A y tiquor whlch renains

behLnd a.fter so nany cryetallations deservee to be called TEE FIRST

ESSENCEOF SALTS and the very Central Llfe of the Eleneat p ! (uadoubt-

edlyt )

Prlnclpally, wh,enafter several Resolutlons and Liqulfactions in

the *, that nother Liquor becomes still more lnpregnated w"ith the
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Universal-fr- of the l'{orId, whereby it is camled, through fernentation,

!
occasioned by that sane uni versal-cr- , to its last Return to l.ts first

unlversal natter.

Let that natter be distllled, as I have done, but do not Sophi,st-

lcate lt by nj.xi.ag lt w1.th bole, Brlckdust or C1ay, but d1st1l lt en-

tirely per ser take pains, and cause its own flxt O to cone over rttb.

i.ts ownrr- , as I have taugbt you the process vety falthfully rrhere I

epoke of tbe Mother Llquor of (D ; and you riII rejolce to see, uhat

thJ.s gJ.orlous Solvent can do upoa O .

tlJ.th rectlfled S.V. a good artlst w.111 eas1ly obtaln fron @ so rad,-

icalIy dissolved, A RUBY RED30 OF O , dissolable ln every Liqu5.d.

I do uot doubt but Dany sho rant to perforn thelr Philosophlcal

Experlnents ln an hours tine, wlll condenn ny long and tedlous processes!

But they show tbat they are no Phllosophers but Sophlsters aad do not

deserve to read WHATI EAVE HERE REVE.ILED!

I conclude and desire the true and faithful Philosophers to f1x into

tbelr ninds, that no radical Resolutlon nor natural putrefactlon or

Dlssolution can be nade but by the UNIVERSALJT- , rhlch resj.des la the

A; (TAB. SI,IARAGIDHERMETIS.) Aud that

VOLAVIT SUPERPENNAVENTORUI,T

that operation which is called Fernentation and putrefacti.onr tbe only

Key to Regeneration, ls aothiag but an operation of that sane Un5-versal.

whereof f treat so often ia thj.s ny Book.

--crE n

Thus far ABBEt ROUSSEAU.

 AP HO R I SI VIS

CONCERNI NG

T H E U N T VE R S A L S A LT OF N A TU R E

Translated fro m a German Ma n u s c r ip t

BY:SIGISI 1OBACSTRO|VI,
ND lrl, D,

17 97
 curj.ous Aphorisns

concernlng the UHIVERSALSALT of NATURE.

copied fron a s n a ll o c t a v o Ms c :

rnl thout }Iame

comQuaicated to me about 20 years ago

by Mr, F. La Fouatain.

translated fron the Gernan

Ano. 1797.

l.

fhe ilealer of all fnflrnittes ls a Son of the Sun aad is the Salt
of L ife.

2.

lThen a pure Matrix becones lnpregnated wlth the prlnclple of Life,

tbe Eealer of all Infirnltles is brought forth.

,.
Tbe Vlr8lual Matrlx canaot brlng forth the healer of Diseases with-
out tbe Cei.estlal prtnclple of Llfe.

4.
This Work ls wonderful; This Blrth ls of a heavealy Orlg]-n, although
corporeal.
 5.
The ch1ld o'f the sun contains the powers of Heaven and Earth, be-
cause Ileaven and Earth are enployed in i t s pro duc tiolts.

6.
The sweet Centre of Life, svreet like honey, 1s hldd.en i.n the Centre
o f the subject.

7.
The sweet sulpbureous-r'L of llature is the centre of Life.

8.
The Clllld of tbe Sun aourlshes itself nagnetlcally from the heavenly
principle of Lj'fe, and is increased thereby 1n power and, Virtue.

9.
lThoeoever comprehends perfectly the Blrth of the sorar Child, he
nay becone a happy nan; and 1f he can KiII, resuscitate and^ conduc t to
heavea he rilI obtai.n every .Bressin8 thi.s Life can give.

10.
lhe soul orJl- of tbe Ki11ed, resuscitated and, glorified Cbj-ld of
the Sun, is the bighest Med1clne.

11.
The Solar Child ouce born nust be fed and aourlshed, uatil he puts
ON ETS PURPTEROBESANd A CROWNOF O}r EIS HEAD.
O
| 2.
lThosoever knows r why Jesus the Savlour of the world,
was bora of TEE
VfRGIN Mary fN A STABLE, knows a great nysteryr and, nay also conprebend,
THE },IYSTERYOF TEE SOI-AR CHf L DT wh ic h p o s s e s s e s t h e p o we rs
o f He a v e n
aa d Vo
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13.

Th.ere vas a Man who conducted the King of Salts lnto the Bath, so

oftenr untll he became quite clean, then he inclosed hinn Naked in a

transparent Apartnentr locked the Door, and heated the apartnent gently,

uatll th.e Klng begua to sweat, and at last was totally dissolved and

became a SallaeV r A aote in

and d,ied. the nargln , viz,. (process O ).

14.

Thls V ty contlnuing a gentle Eeat passed through Varlous Colours,

untl.J. after a long tl-ne lt becane a flxt WEITE and RED.

T
15. ^,
The pure i.nward Centre contains the greatest m,ystery; fa tbe Centre
of the Eartb is 1nclosed the Treasure of this Llfe.

15.

The pure Centre is a tooidng Glass of the Onnipotence of God, there-

fore a true Philosopher does not rest bef,ore he has discovered the Centre

of al1. things.

17-

All those that nake profession of, Medlcine and Chynistry ought to

study TEE CENTR 0F IIATURE and the operatlons of Naturel how tbe Super-

lus operates 1n the fnferius, and they vrould attain the Fouadatlon of

the genulne art of hea11ng.

18.

WboEoever knows to open that powerful and vlrtuoua Centre WITE TEE

RIGET KEYr {1111 flnd and obtaln the sweet Kernel aad Treasure of Llfe.
 19.

Xn order to obtain the purest Centre, l-t j-s necessary to be provi-

ded WITII TEE RIGET KEY.

A rs aur u m c o n f ic le n d i.

A rt to f a b ric a t e So1.

20.

It ts a very easy Thi.ng for a true Phj-losopber to produc" O , be-

cauae he knows the Spern, beginniag and generatlon of@ .

21 .

O aad its. Spern are Cbildren of tbe Sun, and contaia Solar powers.

22.

Gotd, le called SOL and is of a. Solar orlgin, and nust be exalted.

aad brought to perfection by a Solar power.

23-
A true Philosopher knows the Mother of O , 1ts Spern and generation,
aad therefore is able, by a genuine i-nitatlon of nature, to prod,uce @

in qu a ntity.

24.
Whea the Sun ls exalted, in her own llouse ( O f" J-2 ) and vrhen the
weather is Serlne and beautlful, the Sun slnks and lnflLences her powers

and. Virtue lato a pure l,tatrlx, then fine @ is generated.

25,
If you sor the Spern of Sun aad Moon lnto a pure Vor natrlxr) and

ls generated, therein.
O

l"
 26.
rn order to generate @, a pure natrix aad a pure spern or solar

4 are lequired, aad a sufficlent Digestlon, Maturation and tlxation,

-r
27.
The-n-of soI aad Luna lE calred srtvER and GoLD,because, ln a
proper subject, that.JL- beconee Sllver aad Gold.

ag.
The sun geaerates, by his rnfruence r G o ld a n d it s S p e rm.

29.
The SulphureouE flery-Gof the Stars ls tb,e renote Sp].rltual Spern
of M e tals.

50.
All Metale proceed, fron oue Root, for that reason all planetary
colours appear 1n the g1ass.

31.
Nature bas ordalned Salt to be a Spern of metals, for that reason
the Salt of Nature ls called nlaeral and, netalIlc, becauee 1t contalns
netallic nature 1n poteatla.

32.
0 ls the Corporifled, -A- o f the Stars, and therein is the Nature
o f M e tals.

t3 .
O t" tbe Body of the stars, whosecentrar t" catred sol,.
S ""A
,4.
The purlfled netallic salt caa be maturated into Gold.
 t5 .
After the netallic SaIt has been dlssolved lnto a Julce, it becones
by a pr oper digestion and De c o c t lo n f ln a 1 1 y a Me t a 1 .

t6 -
ff you understand bow to bo1l softly and naturate the pure julce
of the Earth,r you will obtain tbat whlch lt would have becone in tbe
viens of the Earth, i.u. O o"
) , but the philosopher canies hls
aatural process beyond that of Nature.

3?.
tiVheneverlfature desires to generate o" O
) , she nakes use of the
purest substance of l{ature.

38.
fhe ti,quo" @t AND SILICUS causes a vlslb1e lncrease to netals, where-
fron you nay conclude safely that the l,Ietals have thelr orl.gj.n FROI'I
and THE PEBBLEoR FLTNT. (nargtnal note- see Grauber and rugll on L i q .
srr,rcus.)
59.
fa our MINER-{LSALT ls netallic nature, therefore lt caa be naturated.
lnto O .

40.
The artist nakeE use of euch a natter, which contains i-n itself a
generating and nultipryllg power; which power contron @ has not.

4l .
Art cannot create O r it can only pronote the uarlpe to Maturation.
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42.
The I'letallic salt of !,Iature is unripe O, beeause it contains the
J1-of o.

41.
Alchynists seek ror @ ; and they find $ only, because they loose

the-*- , which nust tiage the body of O .

* l{ote
- accordlng to Basillusr@1 is the true mj.neral Salt, never-
th,eress ia (E is O and its-rr- , as the hleroglyphic charactor (of (Er )
ver y curiously indicates. S.B,

44.
The-<u of O j-s all Ti-ncture.

45.
The genuine subject contains every thing, that it wants for lts per-
fe cti on , therefore it can b e p e rf e c t e d b y it s o wa p ri. n c ip le s .

46.
O ur S alt geaerated by t h e p o we rs o f S a t u re , c o n t a in s t h e { El e n e n t s ;
it n u st be fixed by the as s j_ s t a n c e o f A rt .

47.
l {ho soever knows how to f lx a n d c o a c e n t ra t e t h e -lr-o rA in the Salt
of i $a ture, possesses all a n d u n d e rs t a n d s o u r A rt .

48.
The..n-of the genuine Q of Nature perfects and fixes hfuaself and
his o wa B ody, if assisted b y A rt .

49.
rf th.e Centre of O is turned, outwards by Art, aad is reunited,'rith
1ts body nost intlnately, and is then flxed, its power is entire and
perfect as you read i.n The Enerald Table.
 50.
Tbe powers of the whole substance aust remaia together, and must

n e i t h e r b e se p a ra te d .n o r weakened.

51 o

N a tu re is e x a l te d by i ts ow a-.n- o

5L.
If you wish to see the Body amellorat,ed by the-n-, tbat-n- nust not
be expel led or forced. fron the Body.

53.
The -<r-which ascends in the gIass, v rh e n e x c lt e d b y g e n t le l{ e at r i s

TEE AGEIIT who does all.

,4.
You nust take away the Volatility of the-,n-, by locking then up

closely, and it wj-II be ia tinre, what you look for.

55.
The-.n-j-s fiery, the Body ls cold (so asys BASILIUS, vide De la Brie

nsc. ) .

56.
M o st Chynical A rtlsts err b y n o t k n o wt n g t h e g e n u in e a c t ln g A (i...

the-n- l.n the natter) The excitlng A is outwardly appU-ed, but the operat-

ingA j-s WitLin tbe g1ass.

57.
fn our whoLe Art and Labour ls, besides the external gentte A , only

the lnternal Secret A to be noind.ed,.

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58.
To Bort is the wb.oleArt; Nature Borts, Art l.fusr Bort also.

59.
In our artiflcal boiliag, the external b.eat must not exceed the fn-
ternal.

50'
The externar Eeat must neither be too strong nor too gentle.

51.
The Ileat must be nanaged nicely, in such a nanner, that one nay be
able t o suffer tbe band oa th,e glass constantry, with,out burnlng it.
62.
$ature and Art eust assist each other to perfect tbe lforks; Art oper-
ates without and Nature rlth1n the glass.

63.
The preparation ls perforned in a close Vessel, that nothlng nay evap-
or a te.

64.
The genuine metalllc Sa lt c a n , b y a n o t h e r p ro c e s s , b e p e rf e c t ed fN
5 DAYS lato spirltual @ , aad be nad,e iato a Tiacture.
(a Eiat confirning l,tR. GARDENS
operation ln the Y .)

02.
rn a certaia Thlng is wIrrrE and RED, I and Q splrltuarry: turn the
Ins'i de out and the or.ltside in.

66.
The pure Salt of Nature, which appears under A WHITE SHINING IORM,
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is by the sorar power brought to a purple corour, under wblch Forn it

becones a Tlacture for nen and netals.

67.
$lhosoever cao chaage the lflbite into Red, dlgest, boi.l and maturate,
knous the Art.

59.
The Body of the Salt 1s cold, the-rr- ls flery.

59.

@ le a Cold A ( atludiag to the COLD,Tranqull Elect: A or

.-5t- susdj., in the aninated Ar) The_rr-is flery (when noved or agltated,
be co u e sd . ) inclosed in the urriversal Hunidity.
* )

70.
Whoeoever can cause a RADTCALullrON between the cold. Body ( the
a1c41-
ine Basis) and fl ery -.G_ , obtaias a nost porrer ful Esserc € r

?1.
The ascendiag--n-tn the Vessel, exctted by Art, le the laternal agert,
who does all.

72.
Obeerve ! As soon as the External Eeat ceases, the operation wlthin
the g la ss ceases also, but wheaever the external Eeat 1s too great, the
JL- rithin rrill want to escape, bursts the glass, returns to the A1.r, and
leaves the Body dead.

75.
As soon as tbe Wb'lte has appeared, ln tbe glass, after Blackness is past,
and whea you 8ee that 1t eubllnes no nore, lncrease tbe Eeat a llttle,
and continue the Dlgestlon, untlI lt ls red.
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74.
The sureet way in the Cure of Diseacesr i s , to c oaf ort and strengthen
th e Jt- of Life 1n the hunan Body, by a pure c e le s t ia l o
O
(thj-s ls exactlv what BEANME'ANDLAvorsrER call puRE wrALA, r calr
it PUREA or ETIIER AI\IMATEDBY sPrRrruAL, voLATrL, rlICORp0RrFrED
NrrRE;
tha t I- s! E LE CTRTA INCLOS E DrN AEREAL
O , which has not yet corporifed.
l tse lf upon an alcallne bod y . A d e p rlv e d . o f t h a t V lt a lA t n c lo s e d in
celestial @ , becomes EIII{rDrTY, that 1s sucu V m rs DEADAI.IDINANil4ATE
and tberefore iaclines to becorne putrid imned.iately for waat of ti.fe, like
a dead aainal Body. But ln ny opinioa such lnanitat" A or Eunldlty is
sooa lnpregnated agaia wj.th A , by neans of the Splrltua1 Mediun, tbe
Aerial @ , and that by a perpetual Circulatioa of th.e Elenents, A actlng
ecnstantly upon theA , and, by the medlun of A on the V, an4 by z!"oa
p u p o n th e a n d vi ce ver sa the ceatr al A ln the Ear th acts upon
V,
the Subterraneous V
" , sublin e s t h e n in t o V a p o u rs a n d A , to be lnpreg-
Eated by the Jr- nundl nanJ-fested ln the Splrltual, lncorporeal, aerial
O or un:Lversal-Jr- . See AIIREA CATAITAgOpEnf . )

7r.
Whosoever has 1t in his power to strengthen anlnal llature by a pure
celestLaf Q r lray live to a great Age.

76-
Nothlng in llature ls so proper to cure dlseases with, as tb,at prlnciple
wblch Le the L5.fe of all things.
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77.
By means of the Astra1 SaIt, all things live on Earth, because al).

th tng s r eceive Life from the A .

( se n d lvo g ius says rrln the* ls a S e c re t F o o d o f L lf e . )

?8.
rn theA i" tbe-n-and Food of t1fe, whlch also d.esceads ln Der and

Raln.

79.
The astral S alt, which ls a h e a v e n ly S a lt l is v e ry v o la t il, sweet,

whlte, brllliant like flne , and is a sreet raercurlalJr-.

I
80.
The SaIt of Nature i-s above, in the nJ.ddle and below; lt is 1n the
zA , 1o v r in the v and in all Things, as IT CORPORTFIES
ITSETF WrTE
EUMIDfTY, 'nith , with aII Vegetables, and ln all Things.
!
81.

One and tbe sane power aouri-shes the rhole world, aad ISOM DEIIIall

things Sroirr ou account of lts containlug heavealy Sa1t, rhich proceeds

fron the Sun and the Moon.

82.
DEI{ ls a Spirltual inpregaated wlth Sol and tuaa.
!
g t.
IN DEWare tb,e powers of So1 and tuna. (nl,ght not DEWbe th,e key

to open the @ , to putrlfy and to regeaerate it?)

94.
A FIeII dlgested, DEW is deened, the best V o
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Bj.

lE the Llfe
TI{E SUPERIUS and nouriebnent of the faferLus.

85.

The Superlus is the Llfe, the Temestrlal ls tbe Body, rrithout the

--6r- th,e Body 1s dead.

8?.
Nothing ls so proper to lnfuse tbe un{ versal-ttt- lato subJectst as

the lswhich faIl from the heavens.

88,

The celestial VS""" fulI of heavenly porefso

gg.

Tbe heavenly salt in the terrestrlal body 1s a genulne power of llfe:

the Centre o f the heavenly [s"r" the sa.Ber

go.
fhe-cr-or po.rer in the \/ whlch is a subtl] Q , ls not seen unt1l

the V l-s become a solld bodY.

91.

r,Thenf saw that tbe p lecarne gradually thlcker and harder, I reJolcedt

becauEe f kaew that I sbould flnd what I looked for.

92.
Wh,ea!trs-tl-or the power of Nature la thep ls becone a e t 1t ls

already a Med1cine.
g t.
SaIt ls a corpori fled -o- o