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Therefore take four ounces of the Salt or heart
of Saturne, and as rr*uch of the red Oyl or wa-
ter of ParadicC) andfeal them up in aPhilofo^
phers Egg) and fo Toon as they (ball feel the heac
of the Balneum, the Salt will diffolvc and be
made all one with the Oyl, fo as youfliallnot
know which was the Saltjwhich was the Oyl.

Set your glafs in Balneo , and there let it ftand
in an equal degree of fire, till all your matter be
turned white and ftick to the fides of the glaCs>
and (bine like fifhes eyes, and thenit is white
Sulphure of Nature ; but if you proceed to the
red work* then divide your white Sulphure into
equal parts , referving one part for the white
work* and go on with the other partjand in a new
glafs well fealed up, fee it in A(hes till it be turn-
ed into a red colour.

When your Sulphurfe is thus convertedjimbibe
it again with equal weight of irs foul, diflblving
and congealing till it remain in an Oyl> andic
will congeal no more, but remain fixed and flow-
ing.

This then is to be fermented with the fourth
part of the Oyl of Gold, as is often mentioned
before.

We have fee down already before of the aug-
mentation in quantity and quality 3 therefore it is
not neceffary to repeat it here.

We will now return to the white Sulphure
before' referved, that we may fee down theman*
net of the white work.

When you have your red Oyl or Soul, if you
defiretomake the white Elixir, fetpart of the
faid Oyle in a glafs in Balneo to digel^, then take

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It ouc and puciciriLO a body , and in a lent firs
diftill away the fpiric or white Af<frr«ry, which
youmuit tryjthac you may know whether it arife
pure without water or not > as you do when you
Cfy the fpirit of Wine, for if it burn all up, it is
well ; if it do not, rec^ifie it fo often > till it be
without any Waterineis at all ; then have you
ret^ified your fpirit > wherewith diffolve your
white Sulphure, till it remain fixedj and flowing,
as you did before in the red work , then ferment
it and augment it with the fourth part of the Oyl
of the white Luminary or Luna , as you did the
red > and it will be the white Elixir, converting
imperfe<Sl bodies into perfed Silver,

A Corollary.

Rifle J divided the fcope of this work into four
operations, whereof the firft is the difiblution of
the body, the fecond, the extraction of the Men-
ftruum and the reparation of the Elements ; the
third is nor neceffary in our work, becaufe we
call away the earth after every diiiillation, in-
fteadof which we ufe our Salt or heart of Sa-
turfie ; the fourth \Sy that there be a conjuni;^ion
oE our Snit as is before defcribed.

Hereafter fo/Uiveth the ^^ccurtatwft of the
work of ^acurn.

The way of exrrp^ting Quick-filvef' out of
Saturne is found in Jfaacus , of which I know
how to make a fpecial ^ccurtation with his water
Of Paradice j which 1 gathered partly from the

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