Book 3 The Rofie Crucian Crown. 1 1

forcfaid Author and others ; RlfUy made his ao
curcation with Quick- filver precipitated with
GoJdj and the imbibition with Corrofive water>
which I like nor, becaufe the Elixir fo made will
be the grearelt poifon > as himfelf confeffeth >
that it were better for a man to eat the eyes of x
Bafilisk, then talk that Elixir.

But becaufe I defire tofet down this accurtati-
on of Lead alone and his Elements , thit no
ftrange body may be added to our Elixir^ and al-
fo that it may be made a Medicine for all utes ^ I
have found out the way of making alone with
the CM^rcury of Saturne and his own proper
Tindure ; for I make a body of one thing which
is a fpirit> and make that Medicine with its own
proper fpirir. Read all the Philofophers, and you
fhall never find a word of this procefs > nor none
of the Ancients will teach thee how to m^ake the
Mercury of Saturn^ which that it may be briefly
done J this following work will fhew at large in
oxxiHolj Guide,

' CHAP. II.

^ The Medicine^ Elixir ? firmentAtion , Imhi"
hition Precifitation^ Quick-LSilver^Satufney
Leady The Toad.

MY great Grandfather Chrlftopher Heydoff*
faith in a certain Manufcript of his , Levi
emmAru norHntAlchimtftdi, Mer curium current em
conficcrecxflnmboi that is to fay, theAlchimifts

knew

1 2 The Rojie Cructari Crovpn. Book 3 .

knew how by an eafie Arc to make currenc Mer-
cnry out of Lead ; but what Arc that wasj nei-
ther he nor any of the ancients have (hewed un-
to U5| Qu^rite, qH£ritei faith the firtt Alchimift
j(fo Paracelfns was pleated to fay in imicacion of
him) & invemetls > fulfate & oferletHr vohlsi
that is to fay, Seek and you (hall find > knock and
it fliall be opened unto you ; which may rather
feem td be the words of an envious Mafterj then
the precepts of a Teacher. But having learned
thisjl learned to feeLchac is to fay to readjl read,
I knocked>thatis> I tried many experiments* al-
though they were repugnant to do6^rine and
Philofophy > therefore although I almott de-
fpaired of that Art, yet becaufe nothing is diffi-
cult to the induftriousjby often knocking ? at laft
I found it apart, by what means I attained to the
Art of fuch a facility 3 that is to £ay , of making
Quick-filverof Lead ; and when the procefs is
lead to the operator j it will be rather rejeiled
then believed: but to the end this Art may be
revealed as a great fecrec ? I thought ic necef-
jfery tofpeak firft of the Inliruments neceffary in
this works before I coine to declare the do6lrine>
which are three in number » thatistofay^a Fur-
nace* a Crucible and a pair of TongSa as appear-
cth in the Holj (]md0.

CHAR