Book 3 . The Rojie Crucian Crowo, 1 5

bottom ; then take of your Quick-iil\ er three
times fo much as your Golds and poor it up6n the
folution of the Gold, that they may mix together
and be united: then put your quick- filver with
the folution in a round Glafs ftopped onely with
a peece of Cotton > and with a Itick put it down
every day as it doth afcendj and keep your Glafs
in afhes the fpace of a moneth , till your quick-
ifvlver be turned into a red precipitate? then again ^
diflblve it in new ditlilkd Vmegarj till the whole
;ulrtance of the quick-fiiver be diffolvedjand the
Vinegar becolouredin a golden colour, thendi-»
iill away the Vinegar in afhes > and again pre-'
:ipitate the quick-filverj which is in the bottom-
Df a Gold colours into a red and fixed body ; and
b have you the cM^curj precipitate of 54*

t remaineth now that the body be imbibed
vith its foul J that this being from a fpirit redu-
ed into a body, may again imbibe its fouLthacit?
lay be diffolved therewith 5 therefore put it into;
Glaf?, and add thereto equal proportion of its
Dul or water of Paradice j and {hue your Glafs'
/ell the fpace of five days ^ till the body be dif*
)lved with the foul.

Thendry it in aflbes till it penetrate and flow 5

nd when it is dried? try it upon a hot Iron plate

it be fixed and melt, if not j imbibe it again wittt-

alf the weight of its water 3 and do fo till you

ake it fufible and piercing by imbibing and

ce Irying it , and when it will melt in the fire 9 and

ri hnetrate, it is then the ftone> and fie for fermen-

Ji'ition,

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1 6 The Rojie Crucian Crown, Book 3 ^

We have faid enough of ths manner of fer-
mentation in the fecond Book r and therefore ic
isnoc neceffary to repeat ic here: andfo after fer-
mentation it will be the Elixir.

Then it is to be augmented and projci^led, as is
before declared ; and thus the work of SatuvKc is
accurtated, of which George Rlp/ej/i^mh,

Adrof is the father of the l^one^ Sericon his
brother, Ljmpha his fi%r.2., the earth its mo-
ther. *"~' ' ^ ' ' .

But if you defire to ktiow all the fecrcc cf J^
tftrfjc or Lead , 1 will fet you down one procefs
Out of ^aracelfui : when you have well prepared
the heart of Saturfjfy faith he, take two or three
ounces of that heart and grind it fmall wich
double weight of Salt- peter, and put it inafub-
liming Glafs/witxh ahead well luted to fublimev^
encreafing the fire by little and little as long as
any thing will afcend or fublime h thus far Para-:
celfw : now if you find this true^ Ripiejf will teU'
you what you lliall do with it, in thele words.

When by the violence of the fire in the diftil-
lation of the Gum oi the Sericon^ a certain white^
matter (l^all afcend (ticking to the head of the
Limbeck, like Ice , keep this matter which hathl
the property of Sulphur not burning, and is a
fk matter for receiving form , you fliall give itf|
form after this manner by rubifying it inafh(
and when ic is red Sulphur,give it of its foul, until]
It pierce and flow, then ferment ir.

Here I have delivered unto you allthc wayjj
and manners of Saturne, which are found in any!
of the Pnilofophers Books : to the end thereforej
that the work may be compleated with a demons

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