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.On this we must insist largely & fully, for (trust me) this is the very hinge on which our secrets hang.First, then know that all the Mettals, and serveral Minerals have Mercury for their next matter, to which (for themost part, nay indeed always) there adheres, and is concoagulated an external Sulphur, which is not Mettaline, butdistinguishable from the internal kerne of the Mercury.This Sulphur is not wanting even in common Argent vive, by the Mediation of which, it may be precipitated into theform of a dry pouder.Yea and by a liqour (the Alchahest) well known to us, (though nothing helping of this Art oftransmutation) it may be so fixed, that it may endure all fires, the Test and Coppel, and this without the addition ofany thing to it, the liquor (by vertue whereof it is fixed) coming away intire, both in its Pondus and vertue.This Sulphur in gold and silver is pure, in the other Mettals it is less pure, therefore in gold and silver it is fixed, inothers it is fugitve, in all the Mettals it is coagulated; in Mercury or Argent vive, it is coagulable; in gold, silver andMercury, this Sulphur is so strongly united, that the Antients did ever judge Sulphur and Mercury to be all one, butwe by the help of the liquor, (the Alcahest) the invention of which, in these parts of the World we owe to Paracelsus(though among the Moors and Arabians it hath been and is (at this day) commonly known to the acuter sort ofchemists) but this I say we know that the Sulphur which is in Mercury coagulable, and in the Mettals coagulated, isexternal to the nature of Mercury, and may be separated in the form of a tinctured Mettalick Oyle, the remainingMercury being then void of all Sulphur, save that which may be called its inward Sulphur, and is now incoagulableof it self (Though by our Elixer it is to be coagulated) but of itself, it can neither be fixt nor precipitated, nor sublimed, but remains unaltered in all corrosive waters, and in all digestions of heat.One way then of Mercuryazating all Mettals and Minerals, is by the liquor Alcahest, which out of all such bodies as have Mercury in theirconstitution, can separate a running Argent vive, from which Argent vive all its sulphur is then separated, save thatonely which is internal and central to the Mercury, which internal Sulphur of Mercury no corrosive can touch, Nextto this way of universal Reduction, there are also some other particular wayes, by which Lead, Tin, Antimony, yea,even Copper, and Iron may be reduced into a running quicksilver, by the help of Salts, which because (beingcorporeal) they pierce not so radically as the forenamed liquor doth, they therefore do not spoile the Mercury of itsSulphur but that as much Sulphur as there is in common Mercury, so much also there is in this Mercury of thebodies, onely this Mercury hath specificated qualities according to the nature of the Mattal or Mineral, from which itwas extracted, and from that reason (as to our work, which is to dissolve perfect species of Mettals) it hath no morevertue than common Argent vive: There is then but only one humidity, which is applicable unto our work, whichcertainly is neither Tin nor Copper, nor is drawn from any thing, which nature hath formed, but from a substancecompounded by the Art of the Philosopher.So then, if a Mercury drawn from the bodies, have not onely the samedeficiency of heat and superfluity of foeces as common Mercury hath, but also a distinct specificated form, it must(by reason of this its form) be so much the farther remote from our Mercury then common Argent vive is.Our Art therefore is to compound two principles (one in which the salt, and another in which the Mercury of naturedoth abound) which are not yet perfect, nor yet totally imperfect and (by consequence) may therefore (by our Art) beexalted which that (which is totally perfect) cannot be: and then by common Mercury to extract not the Pondus, butthe celestial vertue out of the compound, which vertue (being fermental) begets in the common Mercury an off-spring more noble than it self, which is our true Hermaphrodite, which will congeal it self, and dissolve the bodies;observe but a grain of Corn in which scarce a discernable part is sprout, and this sprout, if it were out of the grain,would dye in a moment; the whole grain is sowen, yet the sprout onely produceth the herb: So is it in our body, thefermental spirit that is in it, is scarce a third part of the whole, the rest is of no value, yet all is joyned in thecompositition, and the faeculent corporeous, part of the body comes away with the dreggs of the Mercury [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.On this we must insist largely & fully, for (trust me) this is the very hinge on which our secrets hang.First, then know that all the Mettals, and serveral Minerals have Mercury for their next matter, to which (for themost part, nay indeed always) there adheres, and is concoagulated an external Sulphur, which is not Mettaline, butdistinguishable from the internal kerne of the Mercury.This Sulphur is not wanting even in common Argent vive, by the Mediation of which, it may be precipitated into theform of a dry pouder.Yea and by a liqour (the Alchahest) well known to us, (though nothing helping of this Art oftransmutation) it may be so fixed, that it may endure all fires, the Test and Coppel, and this without the addition ofany thing to it, the liquor (by vertue whereof it is fixed) coming away intire, both in its Pondus and vertue.This Sulphur in gold and silver is pure, in the other Mettals it is less pure, therefore in gold and silver it is fixed, inothers it is fugitve, in all the Mettals it is coagulated; in Mercury or Argent vive, it is coagulable; in gold, silver andMercury, this Sulphur is so strongly united, that the Antients did ever judge Sulphur and Mercury to be all one, butwe by the help of the liquor, (the Alcahest) the invention of which, in these parts of the World we owe to Paracelsus(though among the Moors and Arabians it hath been and is (at this day) commonly known to the acuter sort ofchemists) but this I say we know that the Sulphur which is in Mercury coagulable, and in the Mettals coagulated, isexternal to the nature of Mercury, and may be separated in the form of a tinctured Mettalick Oyle, the remainingMercury being then void of all Sulphur, save that which may be called its inward Sulphur, and is now incoagulableof it self (Though by our Elixer it is to be coagulated) but of itself, it can neither be fixt nor precipitated, nor sublimed, but remains unaltered in all corrosive waters, and in all digestions of heat.One way then of Mercuryazating all Mettals and Minerals, is by the liquor Alcahest, which out of all such bodies as have Mercury in theirconstitution, can separate a running Argent vive, from which Argent vive all its sulphur is then separated, save thatonely which is internal and central to the Mercury, which internal Sulphur of Mercury no corrosive can touch, Nextto this way of universal Reduction, there are also some other particular wayes, by which Lead, Tin, Antimony, yea,even Copper, and Iron may be reduced into a running quicksilver, by the help of Salts, which because (beingcorporeal) they pierce not so radically as the forenamed liquor doth, they therefore do not spoile the Mercury of itsSulphur but that as much Sulphur as there is in common Mercury, so much also there is in this Mercury of thebodies, onely this Mercury hath specificated qualities according to the nature of the Mattal or Mineral, from which itwas extracted, and from that reason (as to our work, which is to dissolve perfect species of Mettals) it hath no morevertue than common Argent vive: There is then but only one humidity, which is applicable unto our work, whichcertainly is neither Tin nor Copper, nor is drawn from any thing, which nature hath formed, but from a substancecompounded by the Art of the Philosopher.So then, if a Mercury drawn from the bodies, have not onely the samedeficiency of heat and superfluity of foeces as common Mercury hath, but also a distinct specificated form, it must(by reason of this its form) be so much the farther remote from our Mercury then common Argent vive is.Our Art therefore is to compound two principles (one in which the salt, and another in which the Mercury of naturedoth abound) which are not yet perfect, nor yet totally imperfect and (by consequence) may therefore (by our Art) beexalted which that (which is totally perfect) cannot be: and then by common Mercury to extract not the Pondus, butthe celestial vertue out of the compound, which vertue (being fermental) begets in the common Mercury an off-spring more noble than it self, which is our true Hermaphrodite, which will congeal it self, and dissolve the bodies;observe but a grain of Corn in which scarce a discernable part is sprout, and this sprout, if it were out of the grain,would dye in a moment; the whole grain is sowen, yet the sprout onely produceth the herb: So is it in our body, thefermental spirit that is in it, is scarce a third part of the whole, the rest is of no value, yet all is joyned in thecompositition, and the faeculent corporeous, part of the body comes away with the dreggs of the Mercury [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]