page 76. at the bottome of which must be powdered coales to the thicknesse of two fingers breadth then make a strong fire that the vessell and coals be red hot put in a dram of the aforesaid mixture and it will presently sublime in a silver fume into the recipient which being setled put in more and so do till you have enough Take out the flowers and digest them in the best alcholizated Spirit of Wine that thereby the tincture may be extracted which will be green A green Oil of Silver Take of the abovesaid crystals of silver one part of Spirit of salt armoniack two or three parts digest them together in a glasse with a long neck well stopt twelve or fourteen dayes so will the spirit of salt armoniack be coloured with a very specious blew colour pour it off and filter it then put it into a small Retort and draw off most of the Spirit of armoniack and there will remain in the bottome a grass-green Liquor Then draw off all the Spirit and there will remain in the bottome a salt which may be purified with Spirit of Wine or be put into a Retort and then there will distill off a subtle Spirit and a sharp Oil. This green Liquor is of great use for the gilding of all things presently If you take common rain-water distilled and dissolve and digest the aforesaid crystals of silver for a few dayes you shall after the appearance of divers colours find an essence at the bottome not so bitter as the former but sweet and in this Liquor may all metals in a gentle heat by long digestion be maturated and made fit for medicine but note that they must first be reduced into salts for then they are no more dead bodies but by this preparation have obtained a new life and are the metals of Philosophers To make Oil of Silver per deliquium Take of the aforesaid salts or crystals of silver and reverberate them in a very gentle fire then put them into a cellar on a marble stone and they will in two moneths time be resolved into a Liquor To make a Liquor of Silver that shall make the glasse wherein it is so exceeding cold that no man is able for the coldnesse thereof to hold it in bis hand any long time Take the aforesaid salt of silver pour upon it the spirit of salt armoniack and dissolve it throughly and it will do as abovesaid With a glasse being full of this Liquor you may condense the aire into water in the hâ—at of the summer as also freeze water To make silver as white as snow Take of the calx of silver made by the dissolution of it in aqua fortis dulcifie it and boyl it in a Lixivium made of sope-ashes and it will be as white as any snow To make the silver tree of the Philosophers Take four ounces of aqua fortis in which dissolve an ounce of fine silver then take two ounces of aqua fortis in which is dissolved half an ounce of argent vive mix these two Liquors together in a clear glasse with a pinte of pure water stop the glasse very close and you shall see day after day a tree to grow by little and little which is wonderfull pleasant to behold I Have set down severall vulgar preparations of gold and silver and of almost all things else I shall now crave leave to give an account of some philosophicall preparations of the Philosophers gold and silver For indeed the Art of preparing of them is the true Alchymie in comparison of which all the Chymicall discoveries are but abortives and found out by accident viz. by endeavouring after this I would not have the world beleeve that I pretend to the understanding of them yet I would have them know that I am not incredulous as touching the possibility of that great philosophicall work which many have so much laboured after and many have found To me there is nothing in the world seemes more possible and whosoever shall without prejudice read over the Book entituled the New Light of Alchymie shall almost whether he will or no unlesse he resolves not to beleeve any thing though never so credible be convinced of the possibility of it What unworthinesse God saw in gold more then in other things that he should deny the seed of multiplication which is the perfection of the creatures to it and give it to all things besides seems to me to be a question as hard to be resolved yea and harder then the finding out the Elixir it self in the discovering of which the greatâ—st difficulty is not to be convinced of the easinesse thereof If the preparations were difficult many more would find it out then do saith Sandivâ—gius for they cast themselves upon most difficult operations and are very â—ubtle in difficult discoveries which the Philosophers never drâ—aâ—ed of Nay saith the aforesaid author if Hermeâ— himself were now living together with the â—ubtle-witted Gebâ—n and most proâ—ound Faâ—mund Lullie the would be accounted by our Chymists not for Philosophers but rather for learners They were ignorant of those so many distillations so many circulations so many calcinations and so many other innumerable operations of Artists now a dayes used which indeed men of this age did find out and inveÌ„â—ed out of their books Yet there is one thing wanting to us which they did viz. to know how to make the philosophers stone or physical tincture the processes of which according to some philosophers are these The processe of the Elixir according to Paracelsus TAke the minerall Electrum being immature and made very subtle put it into its owne spheare that the impurities and superfluiries may be washed away then purge it as much as possibly you can with Stibium after the Alchymisticall way lest by its impurity thou suffer prejudice Then resolve it in the stomach of an Estridge which is brought forth in the earth and through the sharpnesse of the Eagle is confortated in its vertue Now when the Electrum is consumed and hath after its solution received the colour of a Mary-gold doe not forget to reduce it into a spirituall transparent essence which is like to true Amber then adde halfe so much as the Electrum did weigh before its preparation of the extended Eagle and oftentimes abstract from it the stomach of the Estridge and by this meanes the Electrum will be made more spirituall Now when the stomach of the Estridge is wearied with labour it will be necessary to refresh it and alwayes to abstract it Lastly when it hath again lost its sharpnesse adde the tartarizated quâ—ntessence yet so that it be spoyled of its redness the height of foure fingers and that passe over with it This doe so often till it be of it selfe white and when it is enough and thou seest that signe sublime it So will the Electrum be converted into the whiteness of an exalted Eagle and with a little more labour be transmuted into deep rednesse and
24. duckets for the processe of an Aurum potabile which was much cryed â—p and magnified at Prague but at last it proved to be nothing but a mixture of oil of Camphire Cloves Fennel-seed and of Vitriall tinged with the leaves of Gold I know I shall incurre the displeasure of some but they are sophisticating cheating mountebaÌ„cks who indeed deserve to be bound to the peace because many men I dare swear through their means go in danger of their lives Better it is that their knavery should be detected then a noble Art through their villany be clouded and aspersed Now we must consider that there are degrees in this Art for there is the accomplishing of the Elixir it self and there is the discovering of many excellent essences magisteries and spirits c. which abundantly recompense the discoverers thereof with profit health and delight Is not Paracelsus his Ludus that dissolves the stone and all tartarous matter in the body into a liquor worth finding out Is not his Tinea Scatura a most noble medicine that extinguisheth all preternaturall heat in the body in a moment Is not his Altahest a famous dissolvent that can in an instant dissolve all things into their first principles and withall is a specificum against all distempers of the liver who would not take paines to make the quintessence of honey and the Philosophicall spirit of Wine which are cordiall and balsamicall even to admiration A whole day would fail to reckon up all the excellent admirable rarâ—ties that by this spagyricall Art might be brought to light in the searching out of which why may not the Elixir it selfe at last be attained unto Is it not possible for them that passe through many Philosophicall preparations to unfold at last the riddles and Hieroglyphicks of the Philosophers or were they all meer Phantasmes Is there no fundamentum in re for this secret Is there no sperme in gold Is it not possible to exalt it for multiplication Is there no universall spirit in the world Is it not possible to finde that collected in one thing which is dispersed in all things What is that which makes gold incorruptible What induced the Philosophers to examine gold for the matter of their medicine Was not all gold once living Is there none of this living gold the matter of Philosophres to be had Did Sandivogius the last of knowne Philosophers spend it all Surely there is matter enough for Philosophers and also some Philosophers at this day for the matter although they are unknowne to us There are saith Sandivogius without doubt many men of a good conscience both of high and low degree I speak knowingly that have this medicine and keep it secretly If so let no man be discouraged in the prosecution of it especially if he take along with him the five Keyes which Nollius sets down which indeed all Philosophers with one consent enjoyne the use and observation of 1. Seeing it is a thing divine and celestiall it must be sought for from above and that not without a full resolution for a pious and charitable improvement of it 2. Before thou betakest thy selfe to the worke propound to thy selfe what thou seekest for and enter not upon the practicke till thou art first well versed in the theory for it is much better to learn with thy braines and imagination then with thy hands and costs and especially study nature well and see if thy proposals be agreeable to the possibility thereof 3. Diligently read the sayings of true Philosophers read them over again and again and meditate on them and take heed thou doest not read the writings of Imposters in stead of the Books of the true Philosophers Compare their sayings with the possibility of Nature and obscure places with cleare and where Philosophers say they have erred doe thou beware and consider well the generall axioms of Philosophers and read so long till thou seest a sweet Harmony and consent in the sayings of them 4. Imagine not high things but in all things imitate nature viz. in matter in removing what is Heterogeneous in weight in colour in fire in working in slownesse of working and let not thy operations be vulgar neither thy vessels work diligently and constantly 5. If it be possible acquaint thy self throughly with some true Philosophers Although they will not directly discover themselves that they have this secret yet by one circumstance or another it may be concluded how neer they are to it Would not any rationall man that had been conversant with Bacon and seeing him doe such miraculous things or with Sandivogius who did intimate the Art to some word by word have concluded that they were not ignorant of it There have been Philosophers and perhaps still are that although they will not discover how it is made yet may certifie you to the saving of a great deal of cost pains and time how it is not made and to be convinced of an errour is a great step to the truth If Ripley had been by any Tutor convinced of those many errours before he had bought his knowledge at so deare a rate he had long before with lesse charges attained to his blessed desire And as a friendly Tutor in this so in all spagyricall preparations whatsoever is of all things most necessary A faithfull well experienced master will teach thee more in the mysteries of Alchymy in a quarter of a year then by thine owne studies and chargeable operations thou shalt learn in seven yeares In the first place therefore and above all things apply thy selfe to an expert faithfull and commâ—nicative Artist and account it a great gain if thou canst purchase his favour though with a good gratuity to lead thee through the manuall practice of the chiefest and choisest preparations I said apply thy self to an Artist for there is scarce any processe in all Chymistry so easie that he that never saw it done will be to seek and commit some errours in the doing of it I said expert that he may be able to instruct thee aright faithful that as he is able so may faithfully performe what he promiseth and communicative that he may be free in discovering himselfe and his Art to thee The truth is most Artists reserve that to themselves which they know either out of a desire to be admired the more for their undiscovered secrets or out of envie to others knowledge But how far this humour is approvable in them I leave it to others to judge and as for my part I have here communicated upon the account of a bare acceptance onely what I have with many years paines much reading and great costs known There is but one thing which I desire to be silent in as touching the processe thereof as for the thing it selfe to be prepared what it is I have elsewhere in this Treatise expressed and the preparing of that is indeed a thing worthy of any ones knowing and which perhaps hereafter I may make known to
also of its vertue A spirit may be drawn from hence by an ingenious Artist that will smell like Musk or Amber The Sulphur of Vitriall may with spirit of wine be extracted thus Take of the best Dansick Vitriall half a pound dry it by a gentle fire till it be whitish then pour on it of the best rectified spirit of Wine thirty ounces Note that there must come to it no other moisture then the spirit of Wine the glass also must be very dry else you labour in vain then digest it in horse dung the space of a month then decant from the feces the spirit of Wine without any troubling of it then in Balneo evaporate the spirit and at the bottome you will have a yellow liquor of a most wonderfull stipticity This liquor is a famous Anodynum suppressing all noxious vapours whatsoever and causing rest A few drops there may be taken in any specifical Liquor A Sudorificall Water to be used outwardly Take of sublimed Mercury very finely powdered an ounce and half of Euphorbium powdered a scruple spirit of Wine well rectified and Rosewater of each a pound digest them two or three hours in a gentle Balneo the neck of the vessell which must be very long being wel stopt then let them boll a quarter of an hour when the liquor is cold pour it from the feces and keep it in a glass If the back bone be bathed with this Water or the wrist of those that be weak it causeth sweat presently if it be done in the bed By which means diseases that require sweat may be cured Also any pained place by being bathed with this Water is in a little time eased Note that you must not bathe any place above three or four times with it for by being too often used it contracts the skin How to rectifie Oyls and Spirits of Minerals Put the Liquor that is distilled from Minerals into the Retort to which give fire by degrees and the spirit wil rise up into the upper Receiver and the heavy oyl wil go into the middle Receiver which is the biggest of all and into the little Receiver annexed to the end of the middle wil pass some of the spirit which though it passeth into the middle Receiver wil not stay there but goeth beyond it because it finds vent Of ANIMALS BOOK IV. Waters Spirits and Oils simple and compound out of Animals Oyl and Water out of Bloud is made tbus TAke of bloud as much as you please let it stand in putrefaction in a glass vessell close covered the space of forty days then distil it in ashes and there wil come forth a water and oyl extract the salt out of the feces with the said water calcine the salt in a crucible and then dissolve it in the said water and then distil off the water which will be a good rectifying of the water and dry the salt very well which then mix with the foresaid oyl being first rectified and digest them both together for the space of a month To make the Magistery of bloud Take of the purest bloud as much as you please put it into a Pelican that three parts of four may be empty and digest it a month in horse dung in which time it will swell and become as much more as it was when it was put in then distil off the flegm in Balneo and in the bottome will remain the magistery of bloud which must be distilled and cohobated nine times in a Retort in ashes and then it is perfected This Magistery is of excellent vertue which being taken inwardly and applyed outwardly cureth most diseases and easeth pain being very balsamicall Eâ—ixir of Mummie is made thus Take of Mummy viz. of mans flesh hardened cut small four ounces spirit of wine terebinthinated ten ounces put them into a glazed vessell three parts of four being empty which set in horse dung to digest for the space of a month then take it out and express it let the expression be circulated a month then let it run through Manica Hippocratis then evaporate the spirit till that which remains in the bottome be like an oyl which is the true Elixir of Mummy This Elixir is a wonderful preservative against all infections also very balsamicall The essence of mans brains Take the brains of a young man that hath dyed a violent death together with the membranes arteries veins nerves al the pith of the back bruise these in a stone mortar til they become a kind of pap then put as much of the spirit of wine as will cover it three or four fingers breadth then put it into a large glass that three parts of four be empty being hermetically closed then digest it half a year in horse dung then take it out and distill it in Balneo and cohobate the water til the greatest part of the brains be distilled off A scruple or two of this essence taken in some specificall water once in a day is a most infallible medicine against the falling sickness A famous spirit made out of Cranium humanum Take of Crannium humanum as much as you please break it into smal pieces which put into a glass Retort well coated with a large Receiver well luted then put a strong fire to it by degrees continuing of it till you see no more fumes comes forth and you shal have a yellowish spirit a red oyl and a volatile salt Take this salt and the yellow spirit and digest them by circulation two or three months in Balneo and thou shalt have a most excellent spirit This spirit is of affinity with if not the same as that famous spirit of Dr. Goddards in Holborn It helps the falling sickness gout dropsie infirm stomach and indeed strengthens all weak parts and openeth all obstructions and is a kinde of Panacea Another excellent spirit made out of Cranium Harts horn or Ivory Take of either of these if you take Cranium it need not be bruised at all only broke into little pieces if Harts horn or Ivory you must cut them in thin pieces lay it piece by piece upon a net spread upon any vessell being almost full of water cover this net with another vessel very close then make the water boyl and keep it boyling three dayes and three nights and in that time the bones or horns will be as soft as cheese then pound them and to every pound thereof put half a pound of Hungarian vitrial uncalcined and as much spirit of wine as wil make them into a thin paste This paste digest in a vessell hermetically seald the space of a month in Balneo then distil it in a Retort in sand till all be dry and you shall have a most excellent spirit This spirit is of wonderful use in the Epilepsie Convulsions all Feavers putrid or pestilential passions of the heart and is a very excellent Sudorifick This spirit may be taken from the quantity of half an ounce to an ounce in some
purifie and give an excellent smell and tast unto oil Olive that they that loath it may delight to eat it Take of a good sort of oil Olive though not of the best put the same into a vessell of earth or copper that hath a little hole in the bottome thereof which you may stop with wax or a cork to open at your pleasure In this vessell for every quart of oil adde four quarts of fair water and with a woodâ—n spatle or spoon beat them well together for a quarter of an houres space and when you have so done opâ—n the hole in the bottome and let out the water for the oil doth naturally fleet above as being the lighter body and assoon as the water is passâ—d away stop the hole and put in other cold water and begin a new agitation as before and worke in the like manner divers times as you did at the first till in the end the oil be well cleansed and clarified If the last time you work it with Rose-water it will be so much the better then hang in the midst of the oil a course bag full of Nutmegs sliced and Cloves bruised and the rinds of Orenges and Lemons cut small and set the vessell in Balneo for two or three houâ—es and I suppose he that loaths oil will be easily by this meanes drawn to a liking of it Another way Set oil Olive in the sunne in summer-time untill there settle good store of foule and grosse Lees from the which by declination poure out the clear oil and keep it till the next winter and after the same hath been congealed with some frosty weather the oil will be most sweet and delectable to the tast After this manner you may clarifie all thick oils and all kinds of grease but then you must use warme water in stead of cold To purifie Butter that it shall keep fresh and sweet a long time and be most wonderfull sweet in tast Dissolve butter in a clean glazed or silver vessell and in a pan or kettle of water with a slow and gentle fire then pour the same so dissolved into a bason that hath some faire water therein and when it is cold take away the curds and the whay that remain in the bottome And if you will be at the charge thereof you may the second time for it must be twice dissolved dissolve the Butter in Rose-water working them well together the Butter thus clarified will be as sweâ—t in tast as the marrow of any beast by reason of the great impurity that is removed by this manner of handling the fift paâ—t thereof being drosse which makes the Butter many times offensive to the stomach To make Butter tast of any vegetable without altering the colour thereof When the Butter is taken out of the cherne and well worked from the serâ—us part thereof mix with the said Butter as much of the oil oâ— that vegetable which you like best till the same be strong enough in tast to your liking then temper them well together If you do in the month of May mix some oil of Sage with your Bâ—tter it may excuse you from eating Sage with your butter If you mix the oil with the aforesaid clarified Butter it will be farre better and serve for a most dainty dish and indeed a great rarity To make Cheese tast strong of any vegetable without discolouring of it You may mix the distilled oil of what vegetable you would have the Cheese tast of with the curd before the whay be pressed out but be sure you mix them very well that all places may tast alike of it you may make it tast stronger or weaker of it as you please by putting in more or lesse of the oil To purifie and refine Sugar Make a strong Lixiuium of Calx vive whereing dissolve as much course Sugar as the Livivium will beare then put in the white of Egges of 2 to every part of the Liquor being beaten into an oil stir them well together and let them boyl a little and there will arise a scum which must be taken off as loâ—g as any will arise then poure all the Liquor through a great Wollen cloth bag and so the feces will remain behinde in the bag then boyl the Liquor again so long till some drops of it being put upon a cold plate will when they be cold be congealed as hard as salt Then pour out the Liquor into pots or moulds made for that purpose having a hole in the narrower end thereof which must be stopped for one night after and after that night be opened and there will a moist substance drop forth which is called Molosses or Treakle then with potters clay cover the ends of the pot as that clay sinketh down by reason of the sinking of the Sugar fill them up with more clay repeating the doing thereof till the Sugar shrink no more Then take it out till it be hard and dryed then bind it up in papers To make a vegetablâ— grow and become more glorious then any of its species Reduce any vagetable into its three first principles and then joyne them together again being well purified and put the same into a rich earth and you shall have it produce a vegetable far more glorious then any of its species Note how to make such an essence look into the first book and there you shall see the processe thereof To make a Plant grow in two or three houres Take the ashes of Mosse moisten them with the juice of an old dunghill being first pressed forth and streined then dry them a little and moisten them as before do this four or five times put this mixture being neither very dry nor very moist into some earthen or metalline vessell and in it set the seeds of Lettice Purslain or Parsly because they will grow sooner then other Plants being first in pregnated with the essence of a vegetable of its own species the processe whereof you shall find Book 1. page 32 33. till they begin to sprout forth then I say put them in the said earth with that end upwards which sprouts forth Then put the vessell into a gentle heat and when it begins to dry moisten it with some of the said joyce of dung Thou maiest by this meanes have a Sallet grow whilest supper is making ready To make the Idea of any Plant appear in a glasse as if the very plant it selfe were there The processe of this thou maist see pag. 32. and therefore I need not here again repeat it only remember that if you put the flame of a candle to the boâ—tome of the glasse where the essence is by which it may be made hot you wil see that thin substance which is like impalpable ashes or salt send forth from the bottome of the glasse the manifest forme of a vegetable vegetating and growing by little and little and putting on so fully the forme of stalkes leaves and flowers in such perfect
Trevisan when philosophers speak of a first matter they did not meane this vapour but the second matter which is an unctuous water which to us is the first because we never find the former Now the specification of this vapour into distinct metals is thus This vapour passeth in its distillation through the earth through places either cold or hot if through hot and pure where the fatnesse of sulphur sticks to the sides thereof then that vapour which philosophers call the Mercury of philosophers mixeth and joyneth it self unto that fatnesse which afterward it sublimes with it selfe and then it becomes leaving the name of a vapour and unctuosity which afterwards coming by sublimation into other places which the antecedent vapour did purge where the earth is subtle pure and humid fils the pores thereof and is joyned to it and so it becomes gold and where it is hot and something impure silver But if that fatnesse come to impure places which are cold it is made lead and if that place be pure and mixed with sulphur it becomes copper for by how much the more pure and warm the place is so much the more excellent doth it make the metalls Now this first matter of metals is a humid viscous incombustible subtle substance incorporated with an earthy subtilty being equally and strongly mixed per minima in the caverns of the earth But as in many things there is a twofold unctuosity whereof one is as it were internall retained in the center of the thing lest it should be destroyed by fire which cannot be without the destruction of the substance it selfe wherein it is the other as it were externall feculent and combustible so in all metalls except gold there is a twofold unctuosity the one which is externall sulphurous and inflamable which is joyned to it by accident and doth not belong to the totall union with the terrestrial parts of the thing the other is internall and very subtle incombustible because it is of the substantiall composition of Argent vive and therefore cannot be destroyed by fire unlesse with the destruction of the whole substance whence it appeares what the cause is that metalls are more or lesse durable in the fire For those which abound with that internall unctuosity are lesse consumed as it appears in silver and especially in gold Hence Rosarius saith the philosophers could never by any meanes find out any thing that could endure the fire but that unctuous humidity only which is perfect and incombustible Geber also asserts the same when he saith that imperfect bodies have superfluous humidities and sulphureity generating a combustible blacknesse in them and corrupting them they have also an impure feculent and combustible terestriety so grosse as that it hinders ingression and fusion but a perfect metall as gold hath neither this sulphurous or terrestriall impurity I mean when it is fully maturated and melted for whilest it is in concoction it hath both joyned to it as you may see in the golden Ore but when they doe not adhere to it so but that it may be purified from them which other metalls cannot but are both destroyed together if you attempt to separate the one from the other Besides gold hath so little of these corruptible principles mixed with it that the inward sulphur or metalline spirit doth sometimes and in some places overcome them of it selfe as we may see in the gold which is found very pure sometimes in the superficies of the earth and in the sea sands and is many times as pure as any refined gold Now this gold which is found in sands and rivers is not generated there as saith Gregorius Agricola in his third book de Re Metallica but is washed down from the mountains with fountaines that run from thence There is also a flaming gold found as Paracelsus saith in the tops of mountaines which is indeed separated of it selfe from all impurities and is as pure as any refined gold whatsoever So that you see that gold although it had an extrinsecall sulphur and earth mixed with it yet it is sometimes separated from it of it selfe viz. by that fiery spirit that is in it Now this pure gold as saith Sandivogius nature would have perfected into an elixir but was hindred by the crude air which crude air is indeed nothing else but that extrinsecall sulphur which it meets with and is joyned to in the earth and which fills with its violence the pores thereof and hinders the activity of the Spirit thereof and this is that prison which the sulphur as saith the aforesaid author is locked up in so that it cannot act upon its body viz. Mercury and concoct it into the seed of gold as otherwise it would doe and this is that darke body as faith Penotus that is interposed betwixt the philosophicall Sunne and Moone and keeps off the influences of the one from the other Now if any skilfull philosopher could wittily separate this adventitious impurity from gold whilest it is yet living he would set sulphur at liberty and for this his service he would be gratified with three kingdomes viz. Vegetable Animall and Minerall I mean he could remove that great obstruction which hinders gold from being digested into the Elixir For as saith Sandivogius the Elixir or Tincture of philosophers is nothing else but gold digested into the highest degree for the gold of the vulgar is as an hearb without seed but when gold i. living gold for common gold never can by reason that the Spirits are bound up and indeed as good as dead and not possibly to be reduced to that activity which is required for the producing of the sperme of gold is ripened it gives a seed which multiplies even ad infinitum Now the reason of this barrennesse of gold that it produceth not a seed is the aforesaid crude aire viz. impurities You may see this illustrated by this example We see that Orenge-trees in Polonia doe grow like other trees also in Italy and elsewhere where their native soyle is and yeeld fruit because they have sufficient heat but in these colder colder countreys they are barren and never yeeld any fruit because they are oppressed with cold but if at any time nature be wittily and sweetly helped then Art can perfect what nature could not After the same manner it is in metalls for gold would yeeld fruit and seed in which it might multiply it selfe if it were helped by the industry of the skilfull artist who knew how to promote nature i. to separate these sulphurous and earthly impurities from gold For there is a sufficient heat in living gold which if it were stirred up by extrinsecall heat to digest it into a seed By extrinsecall heat I doe not mean the heat of the celestiall Sun but that heat which is in the earth and stirres up the seed i. the living spirit that is in all subteraneall sperms to multiply and indeed makes gold become gold Now this is a heat of