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its patient. Every effence that is diltilled forth is received into a recipient, but that recipient mutt firlt be made clean. Even fo mull the foul and heart of man : the vile affe6tions mud be thrown away, and trampled under foot ; then (halt thou be able to proceed in thy work, which do in the manner following-.
flfeSSON XII.
The expence thou mull be at will be but a trifle : all the inllruments ne- ceffary are but three, viz. a crucible, an egg philofophical, and a retort with its receiver. Put your line gold, in weight about b dwts., file it up, put it into your philofophic egg, pour upon it the twice of its weight of the bell Hungarian 5 , clofe up the egg with an Hermetic feal, put it for three months in horfe-dung, take it out at the end of that time, and fee what kind of form thy gold and $ has alfumed ; take it out, pour on it half its weight of good fpirit of fal amraon., fet them in a pot full of fand over the fire in the retort, let them dillil into a pure elfence, add to one pt. of this $ two pts. of thy water of life, or prima materia , put them into thy philofophical egg, and
lesson xfti.
fet them into horfe-dung for another three months ; then take them out, and fee what thou hall— a pure etherial elfence, which is the living g-old ; pour this pure fpiritual liquor upon a drachm of molten fine gold, and you will find that which will fatisfy thy. hunger and thirliing- after this fecret ; for the increafe of thy gold will feem to thee miraculous, as indeed it is. Take it to a jewel- ler’s, or goldfmith’s ; let him try it in thy prefence, and thou wilt have reafon to blefs God for his mercy to thee. Do thy duty as he hath commanded thee, and ufe all the benefit thou flialt receive, in actions worthy of thy nature.
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When thy fpiritual eye is opened, and thou flialt begin to fee to what end thou wert created, thou flialt want no necelfary thing either for thy comfort or
fupport ;
ALCHYMY.
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