The Hermetic museum, restored and enlarged : most faithfully instructing all disciples of the sopho-spagyric art how that greatest and truest medicine of the philosopher's stone may be found and held. Now first done into English from the Latin origin

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quick or liqui ct silvor in to the true mercury, aS my practi Cal

Salt of tartar by itself is a po versul fi Xative, particularly ii the heat of qui clesime be in corporaled with it. For these two

substances are singularly em Caci ous in producing fixation. In the fame Way, the vegetable sali Of wine fixes and volatiliges according to the manner of iis preparation. ItS use isone of tho arcana os Nature, and a miracle of the Philos

When a man. drini S wine, there may be gainod Dona his Uri ne a Clear sali, whicli is volatile, and renders other fi Red subStances volatile, Causing them to rise with it in the alembi c. But the fame cloes not fi κ. Is a maia drank nothing but wine,3 et sor ali that tho sali Obtained si ona his urino would have adisserent property froni that gaine i out of the lees of wine. Forit has undergone a chemicat change in the human body, having

substances into flesti and sal, while the bee prepares honey out of the preci ous juices of flo vers and herbS. I he great change whicli talios place in theso and other substances is clue to putrefaction, whicli Separates and transmuteSthe constituent elementS.

The Common Spirit os sali, whicli is extracted according tot he direction gi ven in my last declaration, is there be ad dod toti a s mali quantity of the spirit of the dragon ' dissolves, volatiliges, and raises together With itscis in the alembic, gold and silver ; justas the ' ea te V together With the spirit os the dragon whicli is sound in stony places), besore the Spirit is Separated Dom iis body, is much more powersul in producing fiXationthan volatilily. This I also say, that is the spirit os common salt be join odio the spirit of wine, and distilled together with it, it bucomes s Woet. and loses iis acidi ty. This prepared Spirit cloes not dis

it e Xtracis the esse iace of iis colour anil rediness. Is this berightly done, it reduces the white and pure moon to the colouros that body front whicli it was itself extracted. The old bodymay al SO receive bacic iis sormer colour through the love of

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allu ring Uenus, si om Whose bl ood ii, in the fit si instance, derive liis origi n. But observe like vise, ita at the spirit os sali also destroysthe m Oon, and reduces it to a Spiritual esse iace, according to myteaching out of whicli the ' potable m Oon V may be prepared. This spitit of the moon belongs to the spirit of the sui , as the male an Swers to the male, by the Copulation or conjunction Osthe spirit of mercury or iis Oil. The spirit lies hid in mei Cury, the colour 3 Ou must Sech in sulphur, and their coagulation in Sali; then you have threethings whicli together are Capable of Once more generating a

persect thing. The spirit is sermented in the gold with iis o via proper oti : the sulphur is found in abundance in the property os preci ous Venus. This kindles the fixed blood whicli is sprungi rom it the spirit of the sali of the Sages imparis strength and

firmness, though the spirit of tartar and the spirit of urine, together With true vi negar, have great virtve. For the spirit os Vinegar is Cold, and the spirit os lime is intensely hol, and thus the two Spiriis are found to be Os opposite natures. I do nothere Speali according to the customary manner of the SageS But I must not say too open ly how the in ner gales are to be

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