Book I. The Rojie Crucian Crown. 1 7

CHAP, iv:

i Gold Sol. 2 r urged Gold. 3 Calcination.
4 Solution. 5 Putnfa&ion. 6 Filius^fo-
lisCa:leJiis. j FiliaLun^ Ccsleftk.

THe putrifaAion or purgation of gold is
cone as the Goldfmiihs ufe to do by melt-
^ ipg it with Antimony chat the gold may ^
remain in the botrome pure and clear from other
mettalis which th^^rcsM Re gn las.

Take 4 or 5 ounces of this refined gold; leaS
or fileings^nd diflolve irin ££jW«5, mixed
with equal weigbt of ^x£^^£552IwHerein falc
A mioniackrublfmed is difTclved, and vvhen it is
diflolvedincoa red Liquor or deep yellow cheti
it is well calcined.

Theft>Iu:ion ?nd putrifadfon is done as be*
fore you did with filver in the preparation of thq
vv nice Ferment.

^ When )ou have your white fulphur of nature-
f after purnfadion) aiekingtothe fides of the
gUis, let K cool, and take out your glafs and fet ic
in Aft3es,andencreafe your fire but not too much
left your matter vitrifie, and let your adies be no
hotter then you can hold your band therein, and
io let It ftand till the fulphur be of a perfed deep
red colour. Then have you ihe red fulphur of
tae red Luminary.

if you resolve this red fulphur in fpirit of wine
orciitiliei Vinegar int(> an oy|«i§ then the Li-

j g 7 he Rofie Crucian Crown. Book I.

f^:_, ». ^ —

quo:^ ot cheered Luminar}^ And Auramfotabile
curing ali infiranucs ifrherpiricot wine or vi-
negar be dcftilled i com it ^ Bue for this work ic
were better to diffolv" it in our red Lac Cirgtnis
fpoken of in the fecond Chapter of the fccond
Book-, diftill away the Z*^^ frorp the fulphur in
Afhes, and the fulphur remaining in an oile is the
Ferment of allftones to the red. The augmenta-
tion of this red Elixir in vertue is with his red
Tinfturcas before in the white Elixir with Ws
white Tindure. The augmentation in quantity
\% by proje^^ipn upon the body of gold molten :
And that brittle matter of gold upon ? and if ic
be powdered and refolved witi fpirit o^ wine in.
aBoylaswasfaid before oFfilver then it is the
^uinteifencex)f gold, and the great £lixir of life
and the fpiritual ferment for the tranfmutation
of mettals and for the health of mans body.

The 5 Chapter (hcwcth the abbreviation of
!he Red Elixir.

CHAP.

BpofcL rha Rofte Crucian Crown. iQ I

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CHAP. V.

j

I The Liquor of the redfulphur. q Fermu-
fjtion. ''

<i 1. wasp eakd Eo fay, That every iiccurtation P,.eiL^
dimmifted. the perfedion: becaufe Medicines ȣ.^i
which are made by accartacion have Icfs efftft of i^ii ^V

trsnrmutat.on, which 1 alfo afcent to with him/« /ioC'^L.
tor a truth, it the work be begun from the firft -^'"^ "/A^
tountam: yetbecaufc this work h«h its begin-'' <^"^
ning from thofe things which before wera
brought to a perfeA degree of perfcdion. there-
tore m this there is no ditriinution of the pcrfedi-
on ss the fame %^iymHn,i witnefieth Lb.LMecur '
pag 103. faying thus.

rh-l^ff°''rV''"^^"° ^^ d«'a^ed unto thee,'
th.t .f they be both well prepared (and that thou
begm With them) thou wilt do a wonderful work

fl^oi?"^' ^■'■''' '•''°"^ ^^'^^^ 'hen if thou
^vfnnhf"T' ""^'f'i^gslonc, Therefore
m Ion begin thy workof two things together as
Ifliewcd to thee i.uhe greater (lone, when w^
Joeof:he twof.,ld cuftody of the ,diol
21 ' ""'^'^ ^y '^' todies and fpi-

{n-Hlh''" "''"''^ '"' ""^^'^ ^y '^'s I'O'Ji" and
hu l;?J.""M"°'^'"Selfe but fulphuf,ivilhng

do-- r..?'°"''^ '''Sin with rulphnr. to which I
ap .u ivdl agree that I begin this my accurtation

2 2 ' witli

20 T'he Rofte Crucian Crown. Book I-

with iulphur alone and I add no other body to
this Elixir but onely thefulphur of 5 alone ciea*
ted of his own body andfpirit.

Take therefore 2 ounces of the white fulphur
thatwasdefcribedin the firfl Chapter and Ictic
in aflies to rubifie,in 30 days it will be turned into
red fulphur.

Which when you have done diffolve that ful-
phur in the red Tindure of Mecnry when it is
diffolved draw away tbe Tindure, in the bottom
reraaineth the Liquor of the fulphur.

To which li you add a due proportion of the
liquor of the red Lnmwarj it will be pcrfed Fer -
msnt, which if you diffolve and congeal as before
is fticwed, it is then Elixir of very great vercuc to
the red work and no man can make a (hertcr a-
breviation in the world ; And when the fulphur
gf any body is prepared it may this way very
ijpeedily be converted into Elixir by adding the li-
quor of the fer men c.

CHAP