Book I,

The Rofie Crucian

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Set with Angels, Planets and Mettals ^^^

The Firji Book:

CHAP. I.

of the Gold Mercury or Argeut ^we^
2 Vitrification* 5 Sublimation* 4 Cal-^
cinatjon. 5 Exuberation. 6 Solution^
7 Se:paratiofi, 8 Conjun&ion. 9 Vutre^
faSion into Sulphur. 10 fermentation*
II Multifile at ion in vertue, 12 Mul^
iiflication in quantiiy,^^

^Qk^^% that an make the Scone of Ar-
gent vivc or 5 alone, is the
grcitcft fearcher out of Art and
Nature : becaufc there is all tbac
N '^^54^?^ in '^ which wife men do fcek,
for, Quick-filvcr is the raothec
itid rperra of tU Mculs andtfteir neareft matter ;
and it is not pnclyafpirit bucabodyjitiiairo

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a middle Nature and alfo a fulphur, it i« a ling*
I ring :.' , ic dieth and rifcth again anii is fixed with

its own proper Elements: wherefore it is firfl ne-
ccflary that it be purged from its impuiities %

The purgation or purification is on this wife ;
grind it upon a Marble withamuller or a wed-
den Peflili {^ a vvodden Mortcr with common fa l£
and a lirtlc vinegar fpringicd thereupon till tHe"
fait be black, then wafii it well vi'ith vincgcr
and dry it eafily at the fire , or at the
Sun, then ftrainjt through a double death or a
new ?kin of a (hceptiii it be dry and the vi-
neger clear taken away and be of a white co-
lour and clear.

Grind it upon a Marble v:{^:\ z llctle V fu»

^UlJ^ ^jjjniiite and let ic mortifie and in corporate

with it: then grind it with its equall weight

yj . oi fait- Peter and f^reen Co^^ras till it be Hke a

'^•^^^^^^^^ parte; Then pat aU into a fLibliming glals

and In Afiics fublime all the 5 that itbcwhite

and clear as fnow in the head of the I imbect

iuEKmeic again three times or oftener and ic

wlTfbepure ; and (iitJiaaate.

.Put one pound of this 5 fubliroatg into
. , two pountJ of common AgHafort^ by little and

diffolvediikefugar in wine then (hut theglals
andfctitin Balneo to diffolve thefpaceof lo
days then diflil away the Aqu4fortis in a lentheac
in Balneo and the ^ will remain in the bottonie
like butter of a white colour. And calcined by
cprronve watcr>

Put this calcined y into an Earthen body

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