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Then in fand or afiies life up the fpiric gently
and tcmperacdy 5and when yoa iee a fume afcend
into the glafs and red drops begin to fall out of
thenofc of the limbeck into the receiver, then
the red oyl beginnetb to diftU, continue your di-
f^illation till all be come over, when it is done
you Qiall have the oyl In the receiver lifted up
andfeparated from its £arth more delightful
and fweet then any balfom, or Aromacick with-
out any (harpnefs at ail, whichoylis called the
blood of the Lamb. In the bottomc of the
body you (hall find a white fliining Earth like
fnow, which keep well from duft and fo you
hive the clear Earth fcpcrated from its
oyl.

Take this white Earth and put it in a glafs
^iol, and put thereto equal weight of the oyl
or fonl and body, will receive ic and embrace
it in a moipenr.

But that it may be turned into a ftonc
when you have joined thefe two together, (et
it into our furnace the fpace of 40 days and
you Ihall have an abfolutc oyl of wonderful
perfefiion wherewith Mercmj and other im-
perfed mettals tre turned into gold. As Var^-
cslfns was plcafed to fay.

The (lone being thus made, I now come to the
fermentation without which itisnotpoiffiblcto
give form to ic neither will I adhere to the opi*
nionofoneman alone contrary to allthcPhi-
lofophers alone, that is to fay, p.«r^c^//^/ repug-
. nant to the reft of the Philofophers becaufe chey
aii of ncce/Tity have decreed to give form to the
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ftone by fcrmenC and union, that is to fay, of
an iirperfect body* and by how much the
ferment is more ipirituall the ftone will be of
fo much more penetration and tranlmuta-
tion.

'\\y(q th'w.g'^ being promifed I do not think
it (it chat you lliould proceed to projection upon
Alercnry inliead of fermentation as V'-racelfus
re*checb, or that the ftone fhould be fermented
his way with gold cither corporea I or fpiri-

Vv hich gold will be the foundation of the
i\ri\ projection, but what do the Philofophers
command us to dor* that projeccion that is
to fay ferraentacion,be made of a perfed foun-
davion, and that upon impcrfed: bodies that
Kiediciiics may be made which foundation of
the ftone or Lhxir is not except it be onely the
wh'.tc cr red fciment, in re [pcct of whichbcth
gold and niver are laid to be imperfed: bodies,
thcr.CiOie tin's fcoue is to be fermented before
ic be projcded upon the corporeal foundation
or iinperfed, d^st is to fay corporeal ^old.

Therefore Joyn this oyle to the fourth part of
the oyie of tfic lulpur of t^cld, and this is
thrtjue fermcncation or conveifioa unco the
£i:xir.

i hen Augment it in vertue by folution and
co2i;nacion, arid in quantity by projection firft
up n the coiporea foundation that is to fay
gold, then that upon purified Mercury and that
iTi^-.dfc.ne upon other bodies which are moft
Mt for pio/edicn^ that is to fay moit fufible

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