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.Then its own sulphur can more easilyenter into its substance, and have great friendship with the same, for they have awondrous love towards each other.Thus you have two substances in one, and it is calledMercury of the Sages, but is yet a single substance, which is the first ferment.Now follows concerning SulphurSeek your Mercury in a similar metal.Then when you know how to extract the metalfrom its body by purification, the destruction of the first Mars, and reverberation, withoutthe use of any corrosive (the method of doing which I have indicated in my third Key) --you must dissolve that Mercury in its own blood out of which it was made before it became fixed (as indicated in the sixth Key); and you have then nourished and dissolvedthe true lion with the blood of the green lion.For the fixed blood of the Red Lion hasbeen made out of the volatile blood of the Green Lion; hence, they are of one nature, andthe unfixed blood again renders that which is volatile fixed, and the fixed blood in its turnfixes that which is volatile, as it was before its solution.Then foster it in gentle heat, untilthe whole of the mercury is dissolved, and you obtain the second ferment (by nourishingthe fixed sulphur with that which is not fixed), as all Sages unite with me in testifying.Afterwards this becomes, by sublimation with spirit of wine, of a blood-red colour, and iscalled potable gold.Now I will also give my Opinion respecting the Salt of the SagesThe effect of "salt" is to fix or volatilize, according as it is prepared and used.For thespirit of the salt of tartar, if extracted by itself without any addition, has power to renderall metals volatile by dissolution and putrefaction, and to dissolve quick or liquid silverinto the true mercury, as my practical directions shew.Salt of tartar by itself is a powerful fixative, particularly if the heat of quicklime beincorporated with it.For these two substances are singularly efficacious in producingfixation.In the same way, the vegetable salt of wine fixes and volatilizes according to the mannerof its preparation.Its use is one of the arcana of Nature, and a miracle of the philosopher'sart.When a man drinks wine, there may be gained from his urine a clear salt, which isvolatile, and renders other fixed substances volatile, causing them to rise with it in thealembic.But the same does not fix.If a man drank nothing but wine, yet for all that thesalt obtained from his urine would have a different property from that gained out of thelees of wine.For it has undergone a chemical change in the human body, having becometransmuted from a vegetable into an animal salt -- just as horses that feed on oats, straw,etc., change those vegetable substances into flesh and fat, while the bee prepares honeyout of the precious juices of flowers and herbs.The great change which takes place in these and other substances is due to putrefaction,which separates and transmutes the constituent elements.The common spirit of salt, which is extracted according to the direction given in my lastdeclaration, if there be added to it a small quantity of the "spirit of the dragon," dissolves,volatilizes, and raises together with itself in the alembic, gold and silver; just as the"eagle," together with the spirit of the dragon (which is found in stony places), before thespirit is separated from its body, is much more powerful in producing fixation thanvolatility.This I also say, that if the spirit of common salt be joined to the spirit of wine, anddistilled together with it, it becomes sweet, and loses its acidity.This prepared spirit doesnot dissolve gold bodily, but if it be poured on prepared calx of gold, it extracts theessence of its colour and redness.If this be rightly done, it reduces the white and pure moon to the colour of that body from which it was itself extracted.The old body may alsoreceive back its former colour through the love of alluring Venus, from whose blood it, inthe first instance, derived its origin.But observe, likewise, that the spirit of salt also destroys the moon, and reduces it to aspiritual essence, according to my teaching, out of which the " potable moon " may beprepared.This spirit of the moon belongs to the spirit of the sun, as the female answers tothe male, by the copulation or conjunction of the spirit of mercury or its oil.The spirit lies hid in mercury, the colour you must seek in sulphur, and their coagulationin salt; then you have three things which together are capable of once more generating aperfect thing.The spirit is fermented in the gold with its own proper oil; the sulphur isfound in abundance in the property of precious Venus [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Then its own sulphur can more easilyenter into its substance, and have great friendship with the same, for they have awondrous love towards each other.Thus you have two substances in one, and it is calledMercury of the Sages, but is yet a single substance, which is the first ferment.Now follows concerning SulphurSeek your Mercury in a similar metal.Then when you know how to extract the metalfrom its body by purification, the destruction of the first Mars, and reverberation, withoutthe use of any corrosive (the method of doing which I have indicated in my third Key) --you must dissolve that Mercury in its own blood out of which it was made before it became fixed (as indicated in the sixth Key); and you have then nourished and dissolvedthe true lion with the blood of the green lion.For the fixed blood of the Red Lion hasbeen made out of the volatile blood of the Green Lion; hence, they are of one nature, andthe unfixed blood again renders that which is volatile fixed, and the fixed blood in its turnfixes that which is volatile, as it was before its solution.Then foster it in gentle heat, untilthe whole of the mercury is dissolved, and you obtain the second ferment (by nourishingthe fixed sulphur with that which is not fixed), as all Sages unite with me in testifying.Afterwards this becomes, by sublimation with spirit of wine, of a blood-red colour, and iscalled potable gold.Now I will also give my Opinion respecting the Salt of the SagesThe effect of "salt" is to fix or volatilize, according as it is prepared and used.For thespirit of the salt of tartar, if extracted by itself without any addition, has power to renderall metals volatile by dissolution and putrefaction, and to dissolve quick or liquid silverinto the true mercury, as my practical directions shew.Salt of tartar by itself is a powerful fixative, particularly if the heat of quicklime beincorporated with it.For these two substances are singularly efficacious in producingfixation.In the same way, the vegetable salt of wine fixes and volatilizes according to the mannerof its preparation.Its use is one of the arcana of Nature, and a miracle of the philosopher'sart.When a man drinks wine, there may be gained from his urine a clear salt, which isvolatile, and renders other fixed substances volatile, causing them to rise with it in thealembic.But the same does not fix.If a man drank nothing but wine, yet for all that thesalt obtained from his urine would have a different property from that gained out of thelees of wine.For it has undergone a chemical change in the human body, having becometransmuted from a vegetable into an animal salt -- just as horses that feed on oats, straw,etc., change those vegetable substances into flesh and fat, while the bee prepares honeyout of the precious juices of flowers and herbs.The great change which takes place in these and other substances is due to putrefaction,which separates and transmutes the constituent elements.The common spirit of salt, which is extracted according to the direction given in my lastdeclaration, if there be added to it a small quantity of the "spirit of the dragon," dissolves,volatilizes, and raises together with itself in the alembic, gold and silver; just as the"eagle," together with the spirit of the dragon (which is found in stony places), before thespirit is separated from its body, is much more powerful in producing fixation thanvolatility.This I also say, that if the spirit of common salt be joined to the spirit of wine, anddistilled together with it, it becomes sweet, and loses its acidity.This prepared spirit doesnot dissolve gold bodily, but if it be poured on prepared calx of gold, it extracts theessence of its colour and redness.If this be rightly done, it reduces the white and pure moon to the colour of that body from which it was itself extracted.The old body may alsoreceive back its former colour through the love of alluring Venus, from whose blood it, inthe first instance, derived its origin.But observe, likewise, that the spirit of salt also destroys the moon, and reduces it to aspiritual essence, according to my teaching, out of which the " potable moon " may beprepared.This spirit of the moon belongs to the spirit of the sun, as the female answers tothe male, by the copulation or conjunction of the spirit of mercury or its oil.The spirit lies hid in mercury, the colour you must seek in sulphur, and their coagulationin salt; then you have three things which together are capable of once more generating aperfect thing.The spirit is fermented in the gold with its own proper oil; the sulphur isfound in abundance in the property of precious Venus [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]