THE TRIUMPHANT CHARIOT OF ANTIMONY BEING A Conscientious Discovery of the many Reall Transcendent Excellencies included in that Minerall WRITTEN By BASIL VALENTINE A Benedictine MONKE Faithfully Englished and published for the Common Good By I. H. Oxon. Printed for Thomas Bruster and are to be sold at the three Bibles neere the West end of Paules Church-Yard in London 1660. Reader IN this Booke are contained many excellent and precious Antimoniall Medcines both Physicall and Chyrurgicall Some of them even a meane Capacity may attaine unto othersome are more mysterious and therefore t is very probable that the selfe-conceited man who sticks not to vilifie any thing that surmounts his reach will call them Figments hopeing by his malitious subtilty to shun that deserved Reproach which his proud insulting Demeanour exposeth him unto Wee have in these dayes many pretenders to great Mysteries but by their Fruits you may know them were there but any sparke of modesty left in the hearts of such Impudent Ignorant persons they would not thus blemish so noble a Science which forsooth they would be accompted Masters of For if it be an unseemly thing for the authorized Traditionalists to pretend a Mastership in this Faculty which concernes the Life of man and God knowes how much t is hazarded by the Wilfulnesse and Rawnesse of many of them how much more blame-worthy are those Phantasticall hare-brain'd Vpstarts that without either the feare of God or any Respect to the good of their distressed Neighbour Attempt by the subtilest wayes they can Imagine to beguile the Vnwary and to abuse the necessities of their afflicted Patients and yet highly pretend to I know not what sublime Knowledge I am perswaded that such as these have much injured many well disposed tender-Ingenuities and have retarded the Endeavours of such as pitty the deplorable Estate of Mankind This peice therefore may serve to quicken the Slow and to settle the Wavering Mind The Object of it is Antimony T is easie to be had at a mean price the Medcines thence educeable are of great value but yet such of them as are so have a suitable covering the which remove by thy diligence and t will recompence thy paines Labour therefore and humbly implore the Searcher of all hearts to vouchsafe a Blessing upon thy handy worke and whatsoever thou receivest through his mercy be carefull to improve it to his Glory and thy Neighbours Comfort For Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtain mercy Farewell Thy Freind J. 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It first describes p. 158. l. 2. r. thereinto THE Triumphant Chariot of ANTIMONY THE Fiery Stone of Antimony its fixt tincture and most red Oyl shall in this work be briefly but throughly taught after an easy way and Method without any ridles or doubtfull shadowes I therefore Basil Valentine a professed Monk and Brother of the order of St. Benedict will fundamentally propound to the friendly Reader a brief admonition concerning some Praecognita which a Spagirist carefully inquiring into the verity of Art ought to be acquainted with Very profoundly therefore and heartily let these directions be ruminated on by him who hath a desire after a certain enjoyment of this Hermetical Science For if any slightly value these my Proposals doubtless his labor shall be in vain for these things following are very worthy of due consideration Now before I attempt the main work of this little Tract I conceive it requisite to admonish the Spagirist of those things which are worth his knowledge on what Basis he ought to erect his Structure and what Foundation trusting too his Fabrick may resist impetuous storms without declining Therefore as a Monk I hold it fitting and as a thing expedient that when my self and thy self Titius and Sejus Sempronius and Cajus shall be tributaries to death we may leave behinde us in the World an honorable memory to the praise of God that his Divine Majesty may be adored By a due preparation we address our selves unto the Journey My stare and calling forsooth requires a different spirit from the vulgar In this my consideration I have noted five Observations for the diligent searcher 1. An Invocation on the name of God 2. A Contemplation on the Essentiality of things 3. Their true and incorrupt preparation 4. Their use 5. Their benefit or proficuousness All which a true Chymist must remember and without which he cannot be nor be called a true Chymist Briefly therefore and severally these Heads shall be treated of that a particular and the universal entire Work may thereby be brought to light and appear perfect 1. First therefore The Name of God ought to be called on religiously with a pure heart a sound conscience without ambition hypocrisie and other abuses such as are Disdain Pride Arrogance worldly Boasting oppression of our Neighbors and other Tyrannies and Enormities of that kinde all which ought to be totally eradicated out of the heart that when it would prevail at the Throne of Mercy for the health of its Body it may be found a pure and well prepared Temple the Chaff being separated from the uncommix'd and undefiled Corn For verily verily verily God will not be mocked as Sophisters and the Wiselings of this Age imagine nor will he be sued unto as a Creator without a true fear a due obedience and most humble supplication For seeing man hath nothing but what his most bounteous Creator bestows upon him he having given him a Body Life an operating Spirit and a most noble Soul and freely vouchsafed his own holy Word for the support and nourishment of the Soul to eternal Life and having for Bodily necessaries provided him Food and Raiment and such other things as none can possibly want It is just that above all other things his first Father who hath created the Heaven and the Earth things visible and invisible the Firmament the Elements Vegetable things and all Creatures be with most inward humble Prayers sought unto for the obtaining of them Most certaine it is that a wicked man shall never be acquainted with true medicine and much lesse taste the truly immutable and true celestiall bread of Eternity Primarily and cheifly therefore follow this Doctrine placing all thy hope and confidence in God humbly implore his blessing that thy search may begin in the fear of the Lord and so shalt thou obtain desired Wisdom for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom Whosoever then hath resolved in himself to seek the top of Terrestrials that is the knowleege of the Good lodging in all Creatures which the most high hath bestowed upon man lying dormant or covered in Stones Herbs Roots Seeds living Creatures Plants Minerals Metals and the like let him cast behinde him all worldly cares and their appurtenances and expect release with
I cure my Brethren by Prayers spiritually by Appropriate remedies bodily and hope that they 'l watch spiritually for me that we may all become co-inhabitants in the Tabernacles of the most high God But to return to my Antimonial Philosophy Be it therefore known unto the Reader that every thing hath in it selfe a quickning and operating Spirit which dwels in bodies nourisheth and preserves them In the Elements also are living Spirits by Gods permission be they good or evill Men and other living creatures have a living operating spirit in themselves the which departing a carkass only remains Hearbs and Plants contain in them a healthy spirit otherwise they would be unfit for medicinal preparation and use So both Metals Minerals have in them their Impalpable spirit wherein lyes contained all their force and efficacy without a spirit the body is dead nor can it discover any lively operation Know then rhat in Antimony lyes a spirit which effects all such things as lye hid therein and are thence educible but invisibly not unlike the invisible virtue that lyes hid in the Loadstone whereof in my â—ract of the Magnet I shall speake more largely Now there is a twofold spirit Intelligent and not Intelligent The Intelligent spirits are endowed with Reason and can become when they list impalpable and without bodies like us naturall men of which kinde are the Elementary inhabitants viz. fiery as walking and wandring lights and other bright phantasines also inhabitants in the Ayre and dwellers in and governours over the Waters lastly the Earthy inhabitants of which Ranck are those that frequently appear in Metallick Mines and are thence denominated Mine-Pit men Now these are understanding Spirits skill'd in Art and are able to alter their shape of whom I dare not determine any thing but leave it to the all knowing God whether it be expedient to deliver my judgment concerning them or not The other spirits of the universe and which doe not operate after the afore said manner by their own innate power are such as ly hid in man Animals Brutes Plants Minerals which notwithstanding have in them an operative life which they by their works discover evidencing that there lyes an healing power in them when they are separated from their bodies by the benefit of Art Thus also the Spirit of Antimony manifests its vertue and communicates it to mankind when by a freedom from the chains and bonds of its body that its penetrative and operating force may be awakened it be used to that intent for which by the Artist it is ordained Truely t is expedient that the master or artist Vulcan entertaine familiarity for the fire separates the operative force and virtue But the artificer forms and fashioneth the matter as a black-smith by the help of one and the same fire and of one and the same metal viz. Iron forms out of that one matter sundry and several utensils as spits Iron shooes forkes plowshares c. So also out of Antimony many artificial things and of diverse uses may be made The artificer is the black-smith forming the matter the fire is the unlocking key the operation and utility confirms the preparation and brings experience O good God! Would but the foolish and unwise world see and hear rightly and discreetly and truely understand that a sight and hearing onely of what I write may not satisfy them without the obtaining of a truly inward useful knowledge It would not lick up the purulent dregs but go unto those living fountains where it may drink of the water of life And let all know that I shall indeed make fools of many learned Masters and on the contrary Doctors of many poor despised searching and inquiring schollars all such breathing and longing spirits I invite to follow my doctrine to observe my writings and admonitions with a chearful heart a faithful companion and good conscience to whom thus enjoying I promise many things and so shall they be effectors of their desire and speak honourably of me when I shall ly in my sepulcher prolonging my fame with a lasting memorial even to the worlds end Now if any surviving me shall dispute in my School against me when dead my writings will answer abundantly for me and I certainly know that my disciples will not be unmindfull of the benefit they have reaped but preserve the majesty of truth which hitherto we have alwayes obtained to the confusion of falsity and lying and alwayes shall obtaine it to the worlds end Moreover the courteous favourable student of Art ought to know the several sorts and kinds of Antimony One sort is pure faire of a golden nature and abounds with Mercury Another abounds with Sulphur and largely differs from that of the golden property and temperature For in the former sort are faire long shining Radii or Lines whereby 't is distinguishable from the latter For the difference of the goodnesse of the sorts of Antimony is as much as is betwixt the flesh of four footed beasts of fishes which have some agreement and affinity as to the name and if you will essence but in goodnes are different The ingenuous student must also know that a great many men have written of the inward virtues of Antimony but most few are they who have learned the basis of its vertue or found how they might possesse it and since they onely talke and speak groundlesly they loose their honour in that for which intent of honour they betook themselves to writing He that will write of Antimony needs a great consideration and most ample minde and various rules of its preparation and assured end wherein it may with profit be used that so he may give a certain undoubtful testimony of what is good or what is evil what helpful and what poysonous T is no small thing truely to search out Antimony thereby to know its essence and at length by diligence and experience to obtaine the knowledge of it to take away its poison so much cryed out against by the clamours of the vulgar and by a better omen to transmute it into wholsome medicine Many inquirers or Anatomists have hunted some here some there and miserably handled tormented and crucified Antimony in so much that 't is both unexpressible and incredible But really they have not found out or accomplished any profitable operation wandring from the true end propounding to themselves things that are false and thereby shadowing their sight from beeing able to discerne the mark Antimony may deservedly be compared so also Mercury to an infinite Circle and painted with all sorts of colours and by how much the more it is sought into so much the more is found out and learned so that your progresse therein be right and true In a word one mans life is too too short perfectly to be acquainted with all its mysteries It is the worst of poysons the which being separated therefrom it becomes the supremest medicine and is
Antimony say'st thou is poyson Ergo none ought to use it a miserable conclusion good M. Doctour and Bachelour or M. Physitian with your red cap The best Triacle is made of poyson or of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from whence it hath its denomination And therefore none may take it into their bodies because a poyson is therein what doth this doctrine please you is this voice acceptable to your ears Antimony after preparation ceaseth to be a poyson and the whole of it being by Spagyrick Art transmuted becomes medicinal even as Triacle is made of the venemous viper But before its preparation thou shalt not receive any profit or benefit from Antimony but rather discommodity and danger Now if thou intendest to become an Antimonial disciple having first prayed frequent the School of Vulcan beyond all other things who is the master and teacher of all secrets which the meanly learned men doe deride and by their sloathful lazinesse never come to be acquainted with any secret from him putting off the manifestation of any Arcanum by their own sluggishnesse nor is there any remedy in the world to be prepared without fire let them cry out as they list though never so madly But what shall we speak of these haters of Antimony let us not value them unlesse they can bring to the light something better and more excellent then Antimony is seeing that especially out of Antimony may like remedies be had as ly hid in Gold and the Mercury of the vulgar the star of the sun onely excepted from both which may an Aurum Potabile bee made to heal the Leprosie and the spirit of Mercury is the chief Top remedy of the french disease and many others Although those contemning fellows neither know nor are able to search it out An ignorant man can no more judge then the Asse being ignorant of symphony can instruct the shepherd how to handle his pipe He therefore that would truely judge ought afore to learn all such things as he intends to deliver his judgement about and to know as well from experience as from books that which is true and that which is false that so he may judge aright But before I addresse my self to the manner of proceding I may perchance meet with some who will inquire whence minerals and other venemous subjects attract their poyson what the essentiality of poyson is from whence generated in all things how the poyson being removed that thing may be converted unto medicine safely administred without danger I shall therefore informe you concerning the influence of poyson the which may be considered naturally supernaturally Therefore the first reason why God the supream guide and governour of the stars the Creatour of Heaven and Earth hath thought good to set before us sensible poysons especially in minerals is that by their first constitution miraculous and powerful operation there planted by God a man might see that his intent of thus exposing them to view was that there might be a distinction between good and evil even as in his law he hath prescribed us the knowledge of things to be done and to be left undone viz. of good to be embraced and of evil to be avoided After the same manner as the tree in Paradise was placed before our first parents the use whereof tended to good but the abuse to evil which command of God being violated misery and destruction step't in 2. Another cause is that the good and the evil being known the evil might be avoided and reduced unto a better state for it s not the will pleasure of God that men drowned in destruction should totally perish but that returning from evil they proceed to what is better and avoid the losse of their souls On that account hath he by similitudes placed before us good and evil which in like manner is to be found in the command of his mouth verbally and in the work of creation that we may choose things tending to health and avoid things tending to destruction 3. Thirdly poyson is also produced by the stars wherein are malevolent and conâ—rary conjunctions and oppositions of the Planets whence it falls out that the planets become infected and then cause in this inferiour world and microcosme plagues and other venemous diseases The like may you conceive of the comets 4. Fourthly Poyson is also Produced by the fighting of two contraries as for example if a man exceedingly angry or sad or boyling with rage should drink a deadly poyson would thereby be enkindled 5. Fifthly For illustrations sake weapons may be ranked under the forme of poysons if by them any one receive a mortal wound in which the abuse of weapons consists But if they be employed for defence and preservation of life therein their use is lawful and converted unto medicine 6. Sixtly and lastly The cause of poyson becomes apparent from considering nature Whatsoever fights against her is a poyson to her as in some men they beeing not able to bear some meats those meats being contrary to nature become a poyson but to such as love them a medicine But principally venenosity is extracted from an earth of a Mercurial substance I speak of mineral poysons which being immature indigested of a form contrary to nature and of hard concoction which hinders maturity and perfection the whole body becomes thereby as it were a Crude mineral As if a man should devour crude or raw wheat his stomack would hardly concoct it but weaknesse and inconveniences would seize upon the whole body because of the deficiency and weaknesse of natural heat to digest it But the wheat beeing maturated by the fire of the Macrocosme ought to be againe boyled or concocted by a lesser fire that it may be digested by the Microcosme as I have aforesaid concerning the eating of flesh hence t is evident that seeing Antimony is crude volatile and not maturated in the Earth or enough decocted it cannot be born by the stomach without terrible torment of the body and destruction because of the debility of natural heat too insufficient throughly to digest it experience teacheth thus much that all purging medicines be they mineral animal or vegetable are of a poysonous substance because of the predominating Mercurial volatile essence that is in them which volatile spirit is the cause of casting out those things that are found in maÌ„ yet they do not set upon the root of that disease which is fixt because fix't remedies onely doe throughly search out and radically expel fix't diseases which to unfixt purgations is not granted they beeing like a violent torrent sweep away what lyes in their compasse but doe not work upon the fixed earth Now fixed and prepared Purgatives doe not operate by stoole but show themselves onely by sweat and and other means and hunt out the very kernel and not the huske or shell and chaffe of the disease as volatile unfixt and unprepared purges doe they onely expel the
which for examples sake I have made use of that so they may the sooner credit my other writings wherein I speak more abstrusely But because there 's a great difference between the bodies of men and beasts I have no intent by this example here induced that crude Antimony should be given to men also because that the beasts are able to bear and concoct much crude meats which is not permitted to the tender nature and complexion of man to doe He therefore that will succesfully and with profit make use of Antimony ought above all things to be experienc'd and exactly to know the preparation thereof and furthermore to consider the nature of his patient whether he be old or yong strong or weak lest through the Physitians errour the patient be destroyed in steed of being cured I now speak as to the weight of the dose wherein the supreame magistry is contained But if I should make use of circumstances and tedious ensamples for the further illustration of every thing I should be to long I will therefore omit to speak any more thereto and addresse my self to another preparation or fixation of Antimony for as the spirit of wine separated from its body heats and warms a man if it be drunk but if outwardly applyed it extracts all the causes of inflamed members on the contrary vineger cooles and refrigerates both inwardly and outwardly although it be of the same original and kind and meerly for this reason because vineger is made by digestion alone whence followes the putrefaction of the wine with a vegetable fixation But the spirit of wine is made by the separation of destillation or by a vegetable sublimation by which the spirit of wine is made volatile Even so Antimony according to this or that manner of preparation doth wonderfully display his gifts and that even beyond mans apprehension It is thus fixt Take of Antimony most subtily powdred as much as you please put it into a bolt head poure upon it as much Aquafortis as will cover it 6 inches or halfe a foot high place it at a most gentle fire to extract for ten days filtre the extraction that it may be free from the feces Then draw off the Aquafortis by ashes or sand even to a drynesse there will remaine a yellow powder at the botrome whereto pour destilled raine water place it at a continual heat and you shall have a red extraction filtre it abstract the water per B. Even to a drynesse and a red powder will reside behind Hereto poure destilled vineger which in the heat will by litle and litle grow red and leave some whitish feces destil this vineger by ashes and reverberate that red powder which stayes behind three dayes in a constant open fire then extract its tincture with spirit of wine separat the remaining feces All which things being accomplished abstract the spirit of wine per B. and there will remain a red powder fix'd and constant which doth wonderfully perform its office for if halfe a dragme be taken three times in a day morning noon and evening or oftner which you may doe without any injury it drives forth coagulated bloud out of the body and in time opens dangerous apostems radically cures the Lues venerea produceth new hayr and notably renews a man Now having sufficiently spoken of the fixt powder and extraction of Antimony I shall forbear to speak more about it and come now to treat of its flores which may be made sundry wayes And here most men can neither tell what to speak or what to answer as being altogether ignorant of this artifice and such like there will be some but an exceeding small number of my disciples who are earnestly desirous of the Spagyrick Art that will give heed unto my sayings and will censure otherwise then the most will doe To you therefore my disciples I have to say if ye will follow me take up my crosse suffer even as I have suffered learn to undergo persecutions as I have done waver not as to your intended labour pray uncessantly work without Jrksomenesse and thus doing God who heard my prayers will not forsake you in yours whose goodnesse I thankfully acknowledge with hearty sighes and ocular tears Now as to my admonition touching the flores of Antimony I doe declare that they admit of sundry and various preparations as is known to all Spagyrists Some by the admixtion of salt Armoniack drive them downward per descensum out of a retort and dulcorate them by extracting the salt Armoniack and these flores being of a most white colour doe much Others make use of some particular appropriated instruments having litle pipes or necks that the Antimony enjoying the liberty of the ayre may ascend Others performe their sublimation in a strong fire over which they place three convenient pots and extract white yellow and red flores together which I have also attempted without any errour But when I would rightly use the flores in medicine I am wont to mingle Colcotha of Vitriol with the red flores and to sublime them together three several times for thereby the essence of the vitriol Co-ascends and the flores become the stronger which having done I extract the flores with spirit of wine and separate the remaining feces and destil off the spirit of wine per B. M. Until a dry powder is left And these are my prepared flores which I administer to my brethren and other sick persons addressing themselves unto mee whose souls I administer spiritual comfort unto by virtue of my office and whose bodyes I succour by virtue of faith and confidence These flores purge gently without excesse of stooles and have taken away many Tertians and Quartanes and consumed other diseases But I have decreed by the help of God and the blessed Virgin Mary to compose a memorable Testament and leave behind me in my old age a catalogue of all such cures as I have happily perfected that I may openly ascribe thanks due to God and my successours may know my hearty good will and together with me admire and acknowledge those wonders of God which he hath hid in nature and which by my labour I have extracted T is worth the readers knowledge to understand concerning the sublimation of Antimony and its flores that as to its condition it is not unlike to that water which flowes down from the most high Towring Mountains Thus therefore may a man judge of the difference of water some break forth even in the loftiest mountains and were there far higher mountains yet would the water climb up thither for in truth there are plentiful fountaines in the tops of the stateliest hils othersome ly hidden in the bowels of the earth and by tedious and hard digging are found out Now as to their difference I say that the Matrix of the terrestrial water is in many places more potently furnished with the rich treasures of water then in others because all the
and mix them exceedingly well place them in a gentle fire burne or fire them together according to art this is the work and this is the Labour then shalt thou finde a dark dusky coloured matter remaining behind of which make glasse out of which being powdered extract a most red Tincture with a most strong vinegar distilled and made out of its own proper Minerall abstract the vinegar in B. M. and there will remaine a powder which yet again extract with spirit of Wine rectified unto the height and some feces wil remaine and thou shalt have a most red extraction profitable in medicine This is a most pure sulphur of Antimony separated to the utmost which if thou hast two pounds of add foure ounces of the salt of Antimony made as I have afore taught thee thereto mix them and circulate them in a vessel well shut for a month at least so wil the salt be united to the extraction if any feces remain let them be separated then first of all destil off the spirit of Wine in B. M. and that being abstracted augment the fire and there wil come forth the most sweet pellucid red oyle with many miraculous colours rectifie this oyle in B. that a fourth part may remaine and t is good Which being done take of the quick mercury of Antimony already spoken of and pour thereto a red oyle of Vitriol made out of Iron and supreamly rectified distil the phlegme in sand from the mercury and thou shalt have a precipitate a fairer then which cannot be seen nor a more profitable in old wounds and ulcers for it dryes up accidentall humours from whence martial diseases have their Rise where also the united spirit of the oyl assists him Take of this precipitate and of the aforesaid dulcorated oyle of Antimony equal parts mix them put them into a glasse wel shut in a gentle continuall heat the precipitate wil be dissolved in the oyle and be fixt consume all the phlegme in the fire and then shal you have a fix dry red fusible powder emitting no fume My disciple I wil now speake in the manner of the Prophets foretelling things to come When thy studies have guided thee thus far in Philosophy and thou hast perfected the Labour of Antimony which I have prescribed thee thou hast a medicine both for men and metals it is sweet and safe it penetrates it moves not the belly it corrects and expels what is evil If thy progresse hath been right this medicine wil reward thee in thy health and food that nothing in the world shal be wanting unto thee for which thou owest unto God a sacrifice of praise My God! I now speake with a sadned mind being an Ecclesiastical man for I do not know whether I have done right or otherwise whether too much or too litle I leave it to every ones judgment ye that are my disciples make tryal as I have done if you attaine to your end give praise to God and thank me who am your master if ye erre from the way blame your selves for I am not the cause of your errours I have spoken enough I have written enough yea so clearly that none can teach more cleare unlesse a man would purposely run into Hell and there drown himself uttering things prohibited by the Creatour and eating of the tree placed in the middle of Paradise but what I have done shal suffice me until I can more largely judge of what is lawful as to this thing and now I le speak a few words of its use The use consists in the view of the person and observation of his complexion as to humane health see thou givest neither too much nor too little that thou neither burden nature nor deny her what is sufficient Albeit it hurts not although too much be given for it helps lost health and resisteth poisons Yet know that three or four graines at a dose is sufficient for the expulsion of all diseases being given with spirit of wine This stone or Tincture penetrates all the joynts of the body and far transcends other Arcanums it doth most readily take away the Pthisis and all diseases arising from the Lungs the Asthma the Cough Lepry and Lues venerea the Plague Jaundise dropsie and all Feavers it expels any poisonous drink t is profitable for such as are infected by a philtre or love potion it comforts the head the brain and what is of affinity to them the stomack the Liver it heales the diseases of the Reines it purgeth corrupt bloud expels maligne humours lessens the stone of the bladdet and drives it forth heales the windy Dysury c. It brings back the vitall spirits compresseth the suffocatian of the Matrix provokes the Menstrues and allayes their overflowings it begets fruitfulness and sound seed in both sexes Outwardly This stone of fire but yet it must be be also taken into the body and a suitable wound plaister externally applyed heales the Gangrene and all other corroding diseases the scab and infirmities arising from the corruption of the bloud and the Noli me tangere In a word this stone as a particular Tincture is a remedy for almost all the diseases whereto man is subject which experience showes together with the way if only thou beest a true Physitian sent and called by God I will write no more of Antimony I have acted my part let another also act his that the mysteries of God may be layd open before the worlds end to the glory of him and for the health of men I le hold my peace and returne to my monastick order until I shal have made larger progresse in my Philosophy that I may also write those things which I have a long time decreed viz. of Vitriol common sulphur and the Magnet their beginnings and virtues may it please the Prince of Heaven to bestow upon us health of body and eternall welfare of our soules in the unsearchable joyes of his celestial delight Amen I conclude this Tract of Antimony those things which I have written of the red oyle of Antimony made of its purified sulphur and of its spirit which is prepared of its salt observe and therewith compare this last Doctrine of the stone of sire wherein if thou whettest thy wit and mind from this comparing wilt thou finde their conjunction for the Basis and Foundation is one and the same and the Amiry and Freindship is the same by which health is attained unto and the lamenting Stag caught by a pleasant cheerfull hunting The Water Fire Aire Earth yea all things shall be reduced into powder and Ashes whatsoever is borne of them doth also in time perish The mercy of God only endures to all Eternity which alone Man enjoyes for which let us be thankfull FINIS The sorts of Antimony