Book I. ihe R(>fte Crucian Crown, 1 5

When you fee your 5 will afeend no more buc
remain in the bottome of a black colour and
thatts dead and brought pedcdly into calx Ictic
cool and remove your body intofanddli it be
turned into a red colours And this is the perfed
precipitation profe without the help of any
corroiive water , take a little of this powder
upon a hot iron plate if it fume, dry it longer^
if not it is well.

Take of this red powder as much as you will
dirfoive and put thereupon at Icaft his double
weight of Lac Virginia and fee in Balneo till you
fee your L.ic Virgwis fiained a yellow or red
colour then filter it from its feces and
keep It by it felf in a glafs well flopped and
dry tne matter tha: remaineth in AQat^ and pour
thereon new LacVirginis and do as before till
yovi have drawn out all the tin<fture. And f©
your ^ isdiuGlrcd.

Pattbsfcfoluticns into a body luting to a head
and in balneo diftili away the LacVirginis and
the red oyi precipitate will remain which is fixed
andnecdcthnodilliilationbutis the tinging oyl
of red AievcHTj and the red tinSure of the red
floncof 2 and the foul and fpirtc of the lame
flonejoyncd,

Therefore take part of the white Sulphur re^
ferved ifl the firft Table and rubify it in a(hes til!
it be red then imbile it with equal weight of the
oyl of the tJn(ilure of this red 5 and fct it to dif-
folve in Balneo, and when you fci? it is diffolved
iflto a liquid fubftance take it out.
Then fetitinafcs or tipder the fire to fix

1 6 ihc Rofte Crucian Crown, Book I*

till the matter being dried remain fixed and fufi-
blc Ihnding in a mean .heat not over hoc
which try upon a hot Iron plate and if it fuaie
not it ifi well,if it do,cn<;reafe your fire till it be
totally fixed and dry.

If this matter be imbibed again with its oyl
till it drin^c upas much as it will and again dif-
folvcd in Balnco and then dried m Afties, it will
fticw many colours and laftly appeared. And then
it is the ftone penetrating and fufible, apt tor

Join this imbilcd matter (or ftone) with the
4t/?part of the liquor or oyl of the red fulphur of
(Sold or the red Ferment, and diffolve it m Bal-
neo, and drie it again, and again diffolve it io a
glaffe hanged in the fume of hoc water or Baine-
umtml congeal it again till it ft and like honey;
' Then it is the perfed red Elixir of Mercwrj.

The Multiplication or Augmentation of the
vertue and quantity is (hewed in the formeir
Chapter. ^

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