is the better it is Electuary of Diacorals Take of our Conserve of Roses 12 ounces of the salt of red Corals 2. rams of pulverised Orras and of pulverised red Santals of each one dram of Rose Julep two ounces make an Electuary without fire in a glass Morter keep it well closed it is good against the Chollick and illiaâ— passion provoketh Urine and corroborates the whole body it mundifieth the reins and panicles of the brains and subtillateth the blood by its mundifying quality and it is a very good astringent after purging and consequently it is admirable good for the superfluous courses of women as well of the white as of the red yet so that the party be first purged It s dose is from one dram to two at once to be used fasting An Electuary for the Stomach Take of our Conserve of Roses of Conserve of Baulm of each 3. ounces of the pulp of Quinces two pound of skim'd honey four ounces of spirit of Vitriol 20 drops of Galanga of Cinamom of each half an ounce It is best to incorporate it in a Glass It serveth to comfort the stomach being weakned by superfluous humours it strengtheneth and exhilerateth the heart if continually used It s dose is half an ounce at a time to be taken mornings fasting Electuary Therebiminated Take of the whitest pulverised Sugar six ounces of most subtilly pulverised Orras and powder of Mastix of each one dram of syrup of Cinamom three ounces Let all these be incorporated in a glass Mortar then add of the spirit of Turpentine one drachm of oyl of Nutmegs 5. drops keep it in a glass This is an excellent Electuary to cut tough and viscous phlegme in the stomach and breast therefore it is good for those that are Rhumatick and short breathed it purgeth the Reins and provoketh urine being obstructed by gross viscous humors it may serve also against many infirmities and corruptions conceived in the womb It is of a digestive evacuating and mundifying quality and consolidateth also its dose is from one dram to two at evening to be taken going to bed A Confection against the Hart-ake Take of the siderial Powder one ounce of white Sugar six ounces a sufficient quantity of Marjoram water Make Lozenges of it they are admirable good for the aking of the heart its dose is as occasion serveth from two scruples to foure scruples more or lesse as the Physitian shall direct and it may be ministred at all times but the party should use it continually then let it be taken mornings fasting An Antidote for the Womb. Take of Pulegium Sylvestre four ounces of Mugwort two ounces of Galanga Ginger of each an ounce Make an extract with these with Aquavitae according to Art to the consistence of Hony and keep it in a Glass adding to each dram half a scruple of vegitable Salt Its dose is six grains in water of Mugwort It provoketh the Courses of Women strongly therefore make use of it circumspectly An Antidote against the suffocation of the womb Take of the Extract of Castorium 2. ounces of the Extract of the Root of Peony 1 ounce of the Magistery of the Mother of Pearls and Corals of each one dram of subtilly pulverised Craine Humany two drams of Saffron orientall half a dram of Rectified Oyl of Amber two scruples incorporate these in a Glass Morter and stopt close keep it It is of an admirable efficacy for the suffocation of the womb its use is fasting and may be continued for eight dayes or as long as there is occasion for it Its dose is half a scruple and are to be made into Pills it may be ministred also in water of Marjoram and Pyony A Powder of Diacorels Take of Red Roses two ounces and a half of the Salt of Coralls half an ounce of the Spirit of Vitriol two drams of Sugar-Candy one dram of Ambergrease and Musk of each four grains Make a Powder according to Art and keep it well stopt in a Glasse This Powder is good against Convulsions and pains of the heart it strengtheneth the brains and subtillateth the blood and maketh the heart glad and causeth a good digestion in the stomach It s dose is half a dram in Wine or other proper Vehicle A Confection of Diacoralls Take of the Powder of Diacoralls two drams of the Spirit of white Vitriol two scruples of white Sugar two ounces and a sufficient quantity of Rose-water Let the Sugar be boyled to the consistence of Manus Christi put in a Glasse in warm Sand then add the Powder to it afterward the spirit of Vitriol then cast it forth into Tablets and keep them in a Box of Wood this confection is a true Conservative of mans body It is of an admirable vertue It s dose is half a dram which is to be taken fasting A pretious Antidote Take of our pretious Magisterium of Extractum le Zourdicum of each two drams of our pretious golden Bezourd of our golden Cordiel Electrum of the Extract of Opium Thebaicum prepared with the juyce of Lemons of each one dram of Ambergrease two scruples and fifteen grains of pure Musk gr b. of the whitest Sugar an ounce the dry Ingrediences must be well grounded on a Marble for two or three hours to an impulpable Powder A Balsum of Treacle Take of the Treacle of Andromachus four ounces of the Root of Masterwort Angelico Pimpinella Tormentilla of each an ounce of Galanga of Ginger of each six drams of the Salt of Rede Coralls and orientall Pearls of the Lemnian Earth of each half an ounce of Orientall Saffron one dram of Camphire one scruple of the best Musk and of Ambergrease of each half a scruple of the spirit of Turpentine and of the spirit of Juniper-berries of each ten ounces of the best Aqua-vitae two pound infuse all according to Art put it in a Glasse lute it let it circulate in a Balny for a month then separate the two Liquors one from another This Balsom looks very red and then this Aqua vitae is deservedly called the Mother of the Balsum both are very good against all Infirmities and are admirable good against the Plague the Balsum is for inward use half a scruple and of the water one dram Both cause sweat Urine A Magisterie of Coralls and Pearls We have an Universall way to make the Magisterium not onely of Pearls and Coralls but of all other Gems And this operation is performed only by the help of our Phylosophick Aqua-vitae we will tell you the manner how you ought to proceed about the Magisterie of Coralls which shall be the Patern to proceed also with the rest Take of the Powder of red Coralls six ounces of our Aqua-vitae twelve ounces Let the Coralls be infused in the Aqua-vitae and let them be dissolved thereinto a clear water Then separate the pure from the impure by inclination taking heed that you do not stir the feces then take this dissolution set it in
ashes in an Urinall well luted distill the Spirits and flegme from it so that a dry matter be left in the bottom of the Vessel take out that and set it into a moyst place which in a short time will wholly be dissolved leaving some earthliness of no value take this Liquor set it in Sand so that the humidity being dissolved into fumes may have a dry matter behind Take it out of the Vessel add a triple quantity of Spirit of Wine to it or Aqua-vitae which is thrice rectifyed Set it on circulating in a gentle heat for a moneth either into a balny or at the Sun and it will yield some Sediment separate the clear by inclination and in a balny separate the Spirit and Phlegme and in the bottom of the Vessel remaineth the Magisterie in the form of a mucilaginious Oyl and this is the true Prima Materia and thus you have the Magisterie of Coralls which looketh very white but the Magisterie of Pearls cometh near to the colour of Gold Thus you may proceed with all precious Stones which our Menstruum dissolveth into a clear water The Vertues of these Magisteriums cannot so easily be described Their Dose is from three grains to five and the use of it may be continued as long as there is need of and that without danger It is ministred in Wine Broth or distilled water Electuary or Confections even as the Physitian shall see it convenient The great Magistery of Vitriol This Magistery is made by meanes of the four Principall Operations which are distillation dissolution Sublimation and Circulation The first operation produceth this Liquor Take of Roman Vitriol or any other which is good as much as you please distill it in a retort extracting onely the spirit and water and increase your fire as much as you can so that at last nothing appear more in the neck of the Retort then let the Receiver grow could take out the Liquor and keep it take out the feces also or the Colchotar for the following separation The second operation produceth the Salt Take the foresaid Colchotar pulverise it very subtilly dissolve it in common water and extract according to Art all its Salt so that all the sharpness be gotten out of the Colchotar Calcine this Salt dissolve and coagulate it five times so that it be very well rectified still adding the Colchotar left to the other but keep the Salt The third operation produceth Sulpher Take the foresaid Colchotar burn it in a great Crucible then pulverise it very subtilly and add a third part of that quantity of Salt Armonick incorporate these two very well then sublime it very well luted in an Urinall observing the degrees of fire and there will appear in the Alembick a yellowish matter continue the fire when no more fumes come forth out of the Urinall then let it cool take out the sublimed matter put it into common water warmed that the Salt Armonick be extracted separate the clear water from the Sediment iterate this as often till all the Salt Armonick be extracted and in the bottom will remain the Sulphur of Vitriol of a green colour which being dryed keep it The fourth Operation affordeth the Magisterium Take all the former Liquor the Salt and Sulphur joyn these three in a Circulatory very well luted circulate it in a Balny for a Sennite then separate the cleare and distill it in an Alembick in a Balny so that all the water come over in the bottom there will remain a green Liquor which containeth Salt Sulpher and Mercury of Vitrioll which keep for it is the true Magisterie of Vitriol The Compound water of Vitriol Take the separated water in the Balny from the said Magisterie and to each pound of it add the following Ingredients viz. take of rectâ—fied Aqua-vitae two ounces of the Root of Peonie half an ounce of red Roses of Palm Marjoram of each one Pugill put all into a Balny into a Circulatory for 24. houres then strain the Liquor which will be very red then add to each pound of these the following things of Cranium humanum one ounce of Spodium half an ounce of Camphore half a dram of Saffron half a scruple of Ambergrease two grains put all these into a Glasse and circulate it for six weeks continually then separate by inclination the subtile from the thick which keep in a Glasse well luted And this is the most pretious Liquor which worketh marvellously in all the Spices of Convulsions and is administred in the following way The use of the Magistery of Vitriol and its Compound Water If you intend to administer such noble Medicaments which are of such an admirable efficacy in the Falling-sickness then this Order ought to be observed Before you begin you must expect the new Moon because this Disease is then in its vigour and then you must proceed in the following manner First the sick party must be kept from all such meats and Sents which occasion and cause such a Disease However Wine must not altogether be prohibited Secondly you must make an Aromatick and vitriolized water to be his Diet-drink when ever he is thirsty between meales in the mornings fasting you are to give three or five drops according to the constitution of the party if our green Magisterie with half a dram of the compound water in Marjoram Wine then the strife will begin against the Disease and will cause a Vomit to the party of clear water refresh him after four houres are past Thirdly the fit must be observed and alwayes when the fit is past you must minister unto him one scruple of the Compound vitriolised water with Marjoram Wine and if the fit cometh often then you ought to minister but half a dose continuing it till the Disease be diminished which will be about the new Moon At last when you see it needfull minister the Magisterie once more in brief he that will undertake to cure such a Disease must be a Physitian and not a Woman The Compound Liquor of the vitriolised Tartar This Lemmon Liquor by reason of its temperature may very well be used to severall infirmities and to all such persons where there is need of opening subtiliating mundifying and consolidating and it worketh by sweat and Urine Take of white crude Tartar of Viscous Vitriol of each two drams beat these two together distill them in a Retort as much as possible you can then let the stilling-Vessels grow cold and take the Liquor out of the Receiver which is muddy and stinking poure it on again to the Caput mort in a new Retort well luted apply a Receiver and distill again iterate this work a third time so that the Liquor be as clear as water weigh the Liquor add half its quantity of rectified Aqua-vitae to it then take of albified Vitriol and calcined Tartar of each 20. ounces put all these into a Retort adding to it all the Liquor distill as long as any water and Spirits run over then let the Vessels grow cold and keep that Liquor in a well stopt glass to which add the following matters Therefore take the said Liquor and add to each pound three drachms of Sassafras of white Ginger two drachms of Galanga of Treacle of Andromachus one dram and half of Orientall Suffraca six grains of Ambergreece and Musk of each 3. grains Put all these into a glass circulate for six weeks in a warm place or in the Sun then separate the subtile from the thick by inclination or decauting and keep it as a Jewel The Vegitable Salt Take the Caput mort of the said Tartar and Vitriol extract its Salt with distill'd common water coagulate away one moity and let it grow cold to the bottomward you see the transparent salt like Cristal then coagulate the water more and let it grow cold continue it so long till all the salt be gotten out which keep for a Medicinal use The use of the Compound Liquor of Tartar This Liquor may be used safely against all manner of obstructions of the body and it is a Specificum against the Pox. But its particular operations are against the Sciatica Gout in the hands Chollick Illiac Passion and against the torments and gripings in the Belly The manner of the using of it is this You must take mornings an hour before day in the best Wine then the party must abide in the bed for half an hour then let him take warm broth and the party will begin to sweat all the body over which cometh very easily After two or three hours sweating let him shift himself and rise out of the bed and eat some restorative And this may be used twenty or thirty times more or less as you shall see occasion using every fifth day a moderate purgative in this manner many Chronical Infirmities are cured It s dose is from two drams to 3. drams in Wine and the oftner the party maketh use of the better it will be for him for it removeth all peccant matter and reneweth the blood of the whole body The use of the Vegitable Salt This Salt may be ministred with such things which work and operate against the gravel in the Reins and the Stone in the bladder because it is very proper for such diseases It s dose is half a dram at once A Specificum against the Cholick Take of the spirit of Juniper and spirit of Turpentine pour it on St. Johns-wort press it out add more of the fresh Flowers to it till it be very red one scruple of it taken in broth is an approved Medicament against the Cholick If St. Johns-wort be digested in spirit of Wine for a moneth then its pretious oyl will swim at the top The green oyl of Vitriol Take of Vitriol 2. pound put it in an Urinal in a balny for a month let it be dissolved into a transparant green Liquor its combustible Sulphur remaineth in the bottom decaut the Liquor from the phlegme rectifie it in a balny then you have the purging green oyl wherewith you may cure the Falling-sickness FINIS
a stinking Menstruum the Philosophers Sol our Tincture Burning water the Blood of Green Lyon our unctious humidity which is the last comfort of Man's Body in this Life the Philosophers Mercury the Solutive Water which dissolveth Sol under conservation of its Species it hath also many other Names Continue this Distillation from the first appearance of the white Fume 12 hours following then remove the Receiver and stop it close lest the Spirits be lost which are very volatile and penetrative And thus thou hast the Bloud of the Green Lyon called The Secret Water and most sharp Vinegar by which all Bodies may be reduced to their first Matter and purgeth Man's Body from all Infirmities This is our Fire alwayes equally burning in one measure within the Glass and not without This is our Dung-hill our Aqua-vitae our Balmy our Horse-belly working and producing many Wonders in the most secret Work of Nature It is also the Examiner of all Bodies dissolved and not dissolved a Fire hot and moist most sharp a Water-carrying Fire in its Belly otherwise it could not have power to dissolve Bodies into their first Matter This is our Mercury our Sol our Lune which we use in our Secret Work Take the Foeces left in the bottom as soon as they are cold for they are our Cross-Bill far blacker then Pitch which thou may'st set on fire by putting a kindled Cole into it so as they shall be calcined of their own accord into a most Yellow Earth But this Calcination sufficeth not for its perfect cleansing put it therefore into a Reverberatory with a moderate heat for eight dayes and so many Nights following increasing the heat and flame till it be white as Snow they may also be calcined in a Potters Furnace being meanly hot Having this white Earth thou may'st putrifie and alter it or the Calxes of other Metals prepared as I will teach you in that which followeth at thy pleasure into a new Whiteness or Redness by meanes of our Lune or Mercury which putrifieth with them by Generation and Vegetation which Properties they wanted before for the Phylosophers say first calcine then putrifie and dissolve distill sublime descent and fix often with our Aquavitae wash and dry and make a Marriage between the Body and the Spirit and if the Water be congealed by a natural commixture with the Body then the Body shall dye of the Flux shedding its bloud and putting on many Colours after the third Day he shall ascend and descend first to the Moon then to the Sun through the round Ocean Sea and without end sitting in a very little Ship and when his Journey is ended he shall immediately obtain the Victory for doing whereof there shall not need any great expence And thus thou may'st wait again patiently the Harvest and thou should be fill'd with Joy and Riches And now we will speak of Putrefaction Take an ounce of this Calx hidden before in the Philosophers eg and thereon put of the red tincture to cover it two fingers then seal it and set it to putrifie eight daies in a most cold place which being ended it will drink up the humidity again pour on as much of the tincture and let it stand as before for other eight daies continuing again the said imbibitions and times let it stand till it cease to drink any more tincture remove it not from its place untill it be blacker then any pitch which being seen set it into a natural balmy that the moisture with the black Earth may be digested and fixed into a white Mineral then divide it into two equal parts and work the one for the white and the other for the red stone which thou shalt thus easily perform Ferment the one part with the oyl of Lune that is with white water and the other part with the oyl of Sol that is with the red water and so by greater heat and digestion it shall be converted into a most red powder like Dragons blood This powder being joyned with a part of our Mercury and circulated is called Aurum Potabile Elixer of life and of Mettalls which transmuteth Mercury and all imperfect mettals into most perfect Sol. But here learn a general Rule If thou ordain the Elixer only for the white then keep one part of the red work distill the other part with a gentle fire taking the white water which we call our white tincture our Eagle our white Mercury and Virgins milk and having these two Mercuries thou mayst practise with them either upon their own Earths or upon the calxes of Mettals prepared For it is said The Earth is not much to be respected so that it be fix'd Therefore take which thou wilt being first altered into whiteness and for the white work you may ferment thus Take the Calx of Lune and Earth altered equall parts grind them together and temper them with white Mercury named Virgins milk which keep safe sublime the rest not fixed and that which ariseth to the sides of the glass like Mercury sublimed reiterate upon his proper calxes grinding and tempering with our Virgins milk distilling and subliming as before untill no fire will raise it This our Mercury sublimed and fixed made of the white Earth of bodies altered arising at first admirably by the vertue and help of water This is that Mercury instead of which the unlearned take the compounded of common Mercury Vitriol and Sol sublimed wherein they are deceived when this is thus fixed into white earth it is afterward calcined whereof is made an Elixer or stone as followeth Put it into a circulatorie and pour thereon Virgins milk to cover it then circulate it to the thickness of oyl by drying and calcining it as often as thou wilt for by this means it may be augmented infinitely But before thou make projection congeal it into an oily powder one part thereof converts thousand nay ten thousand parts of Argent vive and the other Mettals into pure Lune enduring all trialls In like manner thou shalt work with the Red Water upon the calx of Metals by fermenting and subliming upon the calx of Sol altered And note That thou canst have no perfect ferment untill it be altered with Mercurie from their first qualities into a new whitenesse and rednesse by means of Putrifaction and alteration which before it wanted But when after putrifaction it shall be reduced into Whiteness then it becomes spiritual and is more apt to joyn better with our Mercurie sublimed naturally and by the least parts and also to be fixed together inseparably which would not be so naturall if one part were fixed and the other part to be separated Moreover when spirits have not vertue to penetrate bodies nor bodies appetite to imbrace spirits it is impossible that they should be joyned by their least parts But contrarily when ferments are made spirituall then spirits will joyn with spirits and the body which was most perfectly fix'd is naturally disposed
and inclined to return to his former fixation which without doubt cannot possibly be in bodies which were never perfectly fix'd but the body before fixation desiring a solid habit and fixation draweth with him and into his disposition all spirits whatsoever which are joyned with him and not degenerating as Sulphur vive Arsnick sublimed Bole-Armonick and such like Common Mercury sublimed may very well be joyned with spiritual ferments which with calx of ferment not altered wiâ—l never be perfectly joyned Therefore this part of natural Phylosophie excludeth all citrinations and dealbations which were not produced by a perfect alteration before the tincture were joyned to their bodies and spirits For nothing can be made an Elixer untill it hath pass'd the Philosophical Wheel which being unknown all labour comes to nothing Of the abbreviation of the Work Wherein almost all Elixers are contained and the wayes to make them The First Abbreviation TAke Vitriol calcine it into ashes then beat them into most subtile powder put them in an Urinal and pour thereto Virgins Milk to cover them stop the Urinal with a Linnen cloth and let it stand eight dayes then adde thereto as much of the aforesaid Milk reiterating this from eight dayes to eight dayes and when it will drink no more let it stand in a cold place close stopt untill a certain Cristalline earth like Fishes eyes appear in the upper part thereof which separate from the gross part remaining in the bottom which put into the Philosophers Egg to digest discreetly untill it be perfectly fixed Then increase the fire till it be perfect yellow and then again increase the fire until it be red as Dragons blood Then add to this a part of red Mercury to cover it and congeal it by circulation into Oyl and afterward into Powder and do thus three times Project one part of this Powder upon forty of most pure Lune melted with one part of most fine Sol and it shall be converted into most pure Sol or if you project it upon Amalgum of Mercury and Sol or of Mercury and Lune it shall be more certain and more plentifull But if thou wilt have Gold most perfect and most high take the Elixer out of the Egg put it in an Urinal and poure upon of the foresaid red Mercury equally compounded and mixed with a strong Corrasive made of Vitriol and Sulphur which evaporate from the Elixer with a most gentle fire and by this means the tincture of the one water and of the other shall be fixed with the Elixer by augmenting its quantity and colour which being often repeated the Elixer shall be converted into the form of Oyl in which if you quench Lamins of Lune nealed they shall be throughout ting'd into most perfect Sol which being melted with a part of most pure Gold it shall be purer then any common Gold But if you take as much of the white Earth of Mars altered as before of Vi Vitriol fixing it upon the calx of Sol altered and afterward rubified and then convert it into Oyl as before with the said compounded water thou shalt have a great Elixer converting every Metall into most pure Gold This work may be done in twelve weeks but it is not good for the health of Mans body In the same manner with the ferment of Lune altered thou mayst fix the white Earth of Vitriol and of Mars altered which are reduced into Oyl with the foresaid Virgins Milk being equally mixed with water of common Mercury sublimed fixed and calcined so hast thou the best Elixer to convert all Bodies into most pure Lune The Second Abbreviation IF thou canst artificially prepare the aforesaid white or red water thou mayst farr sooner attain the end of the work First therefore fix Mercury sublimed and calcine it and then dissolve it in the other Mercury white or red untill they be made one water purifie this water three weeks and it will alter the calxes of any Metall for in this work is joyned a twofold Water namely natural and against nature The way to fix Mercury sublimed is thus First sublime Mercury if there be half a pound of it joyn hereto half a pound of Saltpeter and as much of Vitriol grinding and tempering the mixture with distilled Acetum till all become like white Paste when they are thus incorporated sublime seven times that of his own accord he may be clear then fix it in this manner put two or three pound in a long receiver stop the mouth place it in ashes so as the Globe may be wholly covered the first week give it a gentle fire the second week stronger and the third most strong this done it shall be very well fixed Again dissolve it in Virgins Milk after the foresaid way and order if thou wantest money thou mayst obtain a branch or particular in farr shorter time Thus take the foresaid white compoundèd Mercury and fix it upon the calx of Lune not altered by circulating it thereon and when one part is fixed add more repeating it often untill the calx it self melt like Butter on a fiery Cole One part thereof projected upon ten of Mercury purged maketh good Lune for Vessels and Houshold-Ornaments This self-same way thou mayst handle our red Mercuries composition being made as before with the said water extracted from Mercury sublimed fixed calcined and dissolved in the said red Water so as it be then calcined upon the calx of Sol not altered and thou hast the best tincture to convert Lune into Sol whereof Rings and other things may be made The Third Abbreviation PUt into a Circulatory an ounce of the calx of the Egg-shells very well reverberated and pour thereon of white or red Mercury to cover it then nip the glass or stop it close with lute made of powder of Iron Vitriol and Honey well boyled together circulating in balnco till it be dryed up into powder This done pour in more observing the same order untill it be made oyl This converts Mercury and the other Metalls into most perfect Sol and Lune according to the nature and disposition of the Elixer After the same manner thou mayst circulate our Mercury upon the Calxes of Metals There can be no way shorter than this for if thou put an ounce of calx of Sol with Mercury before likewise fixed and pour thereto as much red Mercury as may cover the calx two fingers breadth then stop it close with Paste compounded with Hony Bolearmenick and Iron dust mix'd and strongly tempered and boyled till it be stiff and black Then set the circulatory in a Furnace and with gentle heat digest the red Mercury into a red and fixed calx then adde thereto as much more of that Mercury circulate and dry it as before till the Calx have drunk as much Mercury as it can and be converted into a thick blackish oyl and so thou hast an Elixer which converts ten parts of Mercury purged and heated into a most
its own specifical and natural form therefore it is called the secret Fire of nature stirring up the compound and perfecting it in our Glasse into a Stone in like manner as seed by reason of its own proper naturall heat and radicall moisture if its mother Earth doth putrifie to admirable Generation and Multiplication Whosoever therefore keeps not this our heat our fire our balnium our invisible and most temperate flame and of one regiment and continually burning in one quality and measure within our Glasse I say whosoever understands not this Dunghill horsebelly and moist fire shall labour in vain and shall never attain this Science Thou seest therefore that the radical humidity which is that first vegetable Vertue is the cause of multiplication of every thing in its kind Therefore of the Composition of Sol and Lune take our burning water that Aqua vite which the ignorant do think but falsly to be extracted from Wine Oyl and such like Liquors I say such green Sol and Lune in which the vegetable vertue is not extinguished but is living hot and moist and hath power to reduce all Bodies to their vegetability for by this with Gods permission bodies extinct and not multipliable may more easily get the habit and vertue to germinate which of Phylosophers is called the beginning and tearm from whence the Stone is generated Marie the Prophetesse in an Epistle to Aron writeth That the Body taken from little Mountains is a Body white and clear not suffering putrefaction nor motion and it is that which is generated between Male and Female By those little Mountains is understood Sol and Lune which are naturally separated from us by a great distance by whose influence Gold and Silver are generated both which are in our Mercury By Male and Female we understand Agent and Patient Active and Passive both which are also in our active Mercury and in our Passive Earth Whereby without doubt is inferred that a mineral Earth and Water are the Active and Passive matter as the Philosophers Stone And here hence appears that community between the Poor and Rich seeing that the Stone may be made of one thing without visible Sol and Lune But here by the way I advertise thee that betwixt the Elixer and the Stone there is this difference for the Stone rejoyceth in unity and simplicity but the Elixer in plurality The Stone therefore is one thing our Mercury Sol Lune our Lincture white and red which may be naturally joyned with its own proper Earth or with the Earth taken from the little Mountains and may easily be obtained by mortal men But the Elixer is the same vegetable Mercury which yet by reason of its fixation is said not to be common but consisting of many things for it is absolutely fix'd in the Earth of common Sol and Lune And therefore it alwayes consisteth of many things viz. of Mercury vegetable and of a different Earth which is neither Common nor fit for poor men But of this Earth it is not much to be respected of what substance it is so it be fix'd Alphidius is of the same Opinion saying The Faeces from whence this Earth is taken seeing it is of no value is altogether to be rejected and the Mercury to be planted in another subtil Earth For it s own Earth is seldom natural in the composition of the Elixer Yet my Friend I will name it to thee by its own Name whereby the common People name it and it is the end of the Egg whereby we understand the nature of Mettals viz. Mercury rightly mix'd by Nature with its own sulphur of its own accord inclined by pntrefaction and growing From this Egg three things must be considered namely The Yolk the White and the Shell and this last is only and altogether necessary for Phylosophers which is called the end of the Egg that is the last part rejoycing in perfection having the likeness of a little Mountain and also generated between Male and Female which when it is perfectly calcined it exceeds all Earths whatsoever in whiteness and subtilty enduring the greatest fire embracing Tincture and desiring a metal in Nature which is hardly believed of Workers in the Art unless they being overcome by experience the Mistress of things that they be compelled to confess and admire it But another Earth wherein there is any Mercurial humidity will not drink up our Mercury with so much greediness and therefore it is not so commodious the reason is because it aboundeth with its proper and natural humidity but this hath non such for its humidity was naturally transferred to the generation and union of the White and the Yolk Yet we deny not that this vertue is necessary yet profitable for the preservation of man's Body which is derived from the outward parts to the inward yet so as it be mixed with the Elixer of life this Earth is wholly contemned when the matter included is corrupted and is cast out on the Dunghill and every where troden under foot and accounted unprofitable Sometimes I desiring to try whether it would joyn with our unctious humidity I put it thereto which it drunk up with so great appetite as that it seemed spongious a most fat congealation rather then an Earth naturally naked from which when I had gently evoparated Mercury it remained very Citron Here I will end and shew what matter and what way of practice is necessary for this Work and Art Of the Practick and Operative Part. In the Name of God take a Drop of the Green Lyon which I have mentioned before and dissolve him in distill'd Vinegar very well for ten dayes stirring the Compound strongly three times every day that it may be well mixed then separate the Foeces three times by filter afterward evaporate the Vineger with a gentle fire untill it be thick as Pitch then pour it out and keep it safe Having 12 pounds of the Green Lyon thus brought into Gum thou may'st believe that thou hast seen Earth of Earth and the Brother of Earth whereof Phylosophers have so often spoken put thereof three pound into a Glass whose third part may contain at least four Sextaries of Wine put it into a Furnace with Sand so as the Sand may be two fingers thick under the Glass and about and above the Matter then the matter being a little dryed with a gentle heat put a Receiver not yet luted thereto after a few hours having received a certain light Water when thou seest a certain white Fume begin to ascend put thereto another most long most large Receiver which lay close least the Spirits break forth which are most necessary in this Work Note also that from the first appearing of the White Fume the fire must be discreetly increased by little and little This same tingeth the Receiver with a certain thick and milky humidity which is our Lune and therewith shal also ascend a most red oyl called the Philosophers acreal Gold