CHAPTER VI.

Concerning the Bud appe^uiinc in the Glass.
When you have seen the different colours* it is necessary that you persevere
in the work, by constantly continuing the fire, until the peacock's tail is quite consumed, while the matter of Luna becomes white and glittering" as snow, and the vessel attains its degree of perfection. Then at length you may break off a morsel of the reguluSi and place it on a heated copper plate. If it remains firm and fixed there, and tinges it, then it is a fermentation brought to the highest perfection o^ Luna* That King has strength and power, not only for transmuting metals, but also for healing all infirmities. He is a King worthy to be praised, and adorned with many virtues, and so great power, that he transmutes Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury into Luna, which will stand all tests. He also frees the bodies of men from an infinite number of diseases, as fevers, the falling sickness, leprosy, the gallic disease, and many mineral ailments which no herbs or roots, or anything of that kind, can remove. Whoever uses constantly this medicament, prepares for himself a fixed, long, and healthy life.