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The whore work of the composrton

of thc phlfosophlcal Stone and

Grand Eflxlr, and of the

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Bodles:

Take our Artificial Antirnony, but not the Natural Antimony as

it comes out of the Earth, for that is too d.ry for our work, and

hath little or no hunidity, or fatness in it, but take I saf, our

Artificial Antimonial compound, whieh is abund.antly replinished

with the Dew of Heaven and the fatness and unctuosity of the earth,

.wherein precious 0i1s and rich Mercuries are by Nature closely

sealed up, and hidden from the eyes of all i€norant deriders of

the great and wonderful mysteries of Almighty God, to the end

that seeing they should not see, nor understand, what he hath in_

closed in the most obviousr coDmoh, and contemptible beginnings

of all Things in the whole World.

This our Antimonial Compound ls only to be revealed to the Child-

ren of Art, who firmJ.y believe the constant truth thereof , and

whomin all fraternal love and charity we sayr that it is made of

one Sulphur, srrd of two Mercurj.es, which otherwise by the wise

Philosophers are ealled, the Sun, Moon, and Mercury, or as some

of them will more plainly have lt, Sa1t, Sulphur, and MercurV,

whieh are the three several and distinct substances and bodies,

although for the most part we term them but one Thing, beeause

in the conelusion of our work they make but one Thing, that is

our admirable Elixir, and they have all one original, and tend

altogether but to one end. For if we had not in our Work a triune

aspect of these Pl-anets, and did not begin it with a Trinity, a1l-

would be lost labour and inutilous profile.

Wherefore if thou wilt thrive in our Art, w€ wish thee to begin

with our Mineral Trinity, whereof this our Artificial Antimonial

compoundis made. Take then first in the prime beginning of thy

Work, these three noble Kinsmen, who are immediately indued with

alL the strong and subtile qualities of the four Elements, and in

their due and most natural proporti-ons, (in which proportions

see thou do not erre, for if thou do, thou shalt never reduce thcse

bodies into our true Chaos, and so thou wilt be constrained to

begin again, which will be a most ted.ious discouragement unto thee).

Put them into a good and strong cucurbit, or glass body' and close

it well on the Top, that none of the spirits exhale, for if they

find a Vent to evaporate, thou art undone, because thereby thou

loosest and wasteth the flowers of our Gold. Whenthy Vessel is

well- closed, put it into the Phil-osophers Oven, and set it in

Ashes or sand, with a temperate fire under it, for the space of a

Philosophers Month, which is six whole weeks, and in that time

our grosse bodies will be dissolved and mortified and made fit to

begin a more royal generation.

In this time of dissolution and putrefaction our three noble

Kinsmen, most unnaturally becomethe immanehomicides of each

other, for they spare not with all cruelty to extract each others

vital blood, and are stewed in their own proper gores, and become

soft and tender, like unto butter, and are made all one thing

without any difference, or distinction. Whenthou hast brought

thy work to this pass, thank God, and be glad that through his

Grace and mercy thou hast obtained our Chaos dark and mistie,

which is the true one Thing written of by all the Philosophers,

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our confused mass , and the prime ground of al-l- our Secrets, for

therein lieth invisible couched, our Gold and Silver, our Sulphur

and Mercuries, our Christalline Water, our 0i1s and Tinctures, and

our four Elements which thou must make visible and apparant to

al-l seeing eyes, else can nothing be effeeted, neither shalt thou

ever obtain thy wished for silvery and golden desire.

These Mercuri-es , Waters, 0i1s, Tinctures, and El-ements, make

visibl-e then and conspicuous thus. After the aforesaid months

end, thy vessel being cold, open the mouth thereof, and set on the

top thereof a head of glass well fastened thereunto, and place

it in our Bath, and cl-ose well a reeeiver to the mouth of the hel-

ment, and draw out all the insipid and faint water, which take

away and reserve it close by itself, then fix your receiver on

again, and with a stronger fire in ashes, and draw out al1 the

White fume, whi-ch is called our Air, silverie Tincture and Virgins

Milk, which also remove and keep it l-ikewise most close stopped

by itself. Then last of all put to another receiver, and in sand,

with the strongest fire thou eanst make, separate the red fume,

which is cal-led our natural fire, our golden Ti-ncture, and radical

.humidity of our Elemental bodies, and continue thy fire so long

until it leave bleeding, then asswage the fire by degrees, and

suddenly close it well with wax' that the spirits vanish not away'

for this is caIled our blessed liquor, and trust me there is not

a stronger poison in al-l the World than it, therefore keep it close

and meddle not with it tilt hereafter.

Thus now the work of Art, for Division and Separation, is the sole

work of Art and of the Artist, and not of Nature; for here Nature

is forced by the Skill of the Workman, to forgo and part with her

beloved Elements, which she so straightly kept chained and inclosed

in her bosome, and which by violence by external fire' are even

as it were forcibly rent and torn from her.

Indeed, the first Work of Solution and Mortification is the

Sole operation of Nature, for the Materials being inclosed in their

dungeon there Nature attenuates them, there she dissolves and

putrefies them, and causeth them to run a retrograde course into

their own first matter again, that is, into a sl-imie and viscous

mass and substance, whereof at first out of the four Elements

they were formed and begotten. And in that first work, the Artist

is but only a fire maker, which only giveth Nature strength and

power to work in and upon the materials, for without an exciting

fire Nature were not able to effect anything, but she would who11y

remain idle and void of course, and that in regard of the extreme

coldness of the Mercury, for where cold predominates, heat must

needs lie fettered and immoveabLe,but when the external fire stir-

reth up and provoketh the fierce indignation of the Salt Menstrue,

she presently seizeth upon the fat unctuous body of the Sulphur,

and extracts his natural heat and fiery element, and then both

of them together do so ardently incircle and work upon the cold

Mercury, that they dissever and scatter all his members into smaller

atomes than f1y in the beams of the Sun, and then heat beginneth

to get the supereminence.

Therefore in this FIRST WORK

the Operator is but the Trustie

administrator of Nature, which in this case, the most illeterate

.and simple man in the World may be.

But in the Secret Work of the conjunction of our Elements, both

Nature and Art, hand in hand accompaning each other, for there

the Artist findeth and imbibeth, and Nature fixeth and congealeth,

which we will show hereafter, when we handle that work.

fhe FIRST WORK 0F SOLUTIONreduceth our Tri-nity and Antimonial

Compoundinto a green Errn, called the Green Lyon, which gum dry

moderately we1l, but beware thou burn not his flowers, nor destroy

greenness, for therein lieth his Soul, which is our mai-nSecret.

And our SECONDWORKmanifests those things which were before

hid from sight, namely, it makes our four Elements to appear vis-

ib1y, and to be had generally and distinctly. But in this Second

Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water,

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