Book I. ihe Rojie Crucian Crown 2 1

CHAP VI.

I The Bodj. Q The Spirit- 3 The Lion, 4 The
Eagle. 5 The Phjlofophers Lead, 6 Anti*
mony. 7 Antimony Mercury, 8 iht Clue
of the Eagle, ^) Solution of the red Lion
into Blood. 1 o Solution of the Glue of the
Eagle, II Solution of the Blood 0^ the
red Lion. 12 Conjun^ion. i^ PutrifaHi'
on, 14 The Stone, 15 Fermentation,
16 /;/ the Trinity of jheVhifical and
Alchimical Tincinre The Soitl 1 7 Is the
Vnity of the Medicine,

j^fTT^ Ake Antimony calcioiid fo much as you
j^ pleafe, and grind ic ro a fubcile powder,
then take twice fo much L^c VirjTinis and
put your powder oF Antimony therein and fee
ic in baineoy days^^cn put ic into a body j and
fe: ic in fand or afhes till the Lac be turned red,
which draw of and pour on more and fo let it
iiand, when that is coloured red, pourictothe
other and thus do rili you have drawn out ail the
tincture fee all this water in balneo or lent a-
Ihesto diftill with a Limbeck, and diftill ic wi^h
a lent lire and firft of all the Lac will afcend ,
then you (hall fee a (lupendious Miracle becaufa
you (hall fee through the noic of the Aiimbcck
asit wereathoufandveins of the liquor cf this

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l)lc{rcdmincrctocIefc».nd in red drops jufl: like
bloud, which when you have got thou haft a
thing whereto all the treaiure in the world is not
cquall ; Now you have the blood of the Lion
ficcordiog to Rupefffi^ let us here reft 2 little
and fpeak of the Glew of the Eagle, oi which
TarAcelfiu thus iaith.

Reduce Mercury fo far by fublimation till
it be a fixed Chriftall ; this is his preptration
of Mercury and Jiis way of reducing it into the
Olewofche Eagle, but above sll I require that
that way be ufcd which is deicribed by me before
in the firft Chapter, or that hereafccrfet down
after this.

Thenfa.'rb theforefaid Author, go on to re-
folutioH and coagulation, and I again will you
to obferve the fame manner of folution (hewed
in the firft Chaprer before.

Now letascome.toconjaiidion after the fo-
lution ofthefetwo, take equal weight of them
and put them in a vclfel well (hut.

After yoti have thus joined them together fet
your glafs in your furnace 10 putrifie and alter
► thefpacsof certain, days. Iheiefore Paracelfus
faith.1 then at length and prefentiy after 5?our Li-
li is made hot in your glafs it appearcth in won-
derful manners (or dcmonftrations) blacker then
, the Crow : afcer tha.t in procefs di tirae whiter
then the Swan and then pafling by ycllcw to be
lanore red then bloud.

This being putfified and turned into red is to
be taken for the fione, and then it is time it be
fermented.

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Of which Fermentation Paraceifuj rhns ip:?ak-
€th,onc pa!t thneof is to be projected upon
1000 pares of molron gold,ard then the tnedidne
i$ prepared aod this is the Fermcntaton of it.
Butir*t-be half or one part of the liquor of t Kg
fulphur of gold before defcribcd be added to
it then it would be fpirituall ferment, and
would be mi?ch more penetrating in fortitude
and fuliblc as Paracelfw doth tcLlifie in his
jiarora where he would have us to join the
ttar of the fun or tbc oyl of fol to this flcne.
And thus the phifical Alchimical ti ;c£ure is
performed in a fhort time for curing all man-
ner of Infirmities and humane difeafes (which
is alio the great Elixir for inertaLs) fo courtly
concealed by the Ancients. Which Hermes
Trifmagijlhs rhc ^y^jrjpti.ir.y Cfus the Cjretian^
Haly2in Arab'an^ and AlhertPis Ai<,:gnn^ a Ger^
vnayiy with many others., have ro4iP,ht- and pro-
fecutcd every one after their own metho i, and
one in one lubjed another in another, fo much
defired by the Phiiofophersonely for prolonga-
tion of life. , ■

In this compofidcn /^^ercury is made a fixc^-
and difToived body, the blood or ipiricofthe /
red Lion is the ferraentor foul, and (oof trinity
is made unity, which is called the Phifical and
Alchimicall tindure, never before that I knew
of colleded or writ in one work And I fwcars
I had not done this except that otherwife the
compofuion of this bjefTed mcdeciiie had for ever
been forgot.

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jifhorter wa^ to ntaks t^^^ glue of the Eagle,

If yon defi|[c to make the glue of ibc Eagle in
abreiferway. Take pare of the red precipicjic
proic as n taught before in the table of ATcrctirj i
zm dii^oht it in difti'ied vinegerand the vineger :
will be coloured into a yelovv »or delighttull
golden colour and after you htve deftiilcd
away the vinegef there will rfraain in the
bottome a white fubfcance of the yWifr^-z/r^ fixed
and iair. which istobf joyaed to the oylc of,
I be Lion; And this work i& much (horter and
lels laborious; look more hereof in the third
13Gok.

'The Calcination of At^timouy int% the red Lion.

Take Antimony well ground fo much as you
pleiie and m&It it ia n^kt^d fire with (a!i^4l212liL
atk^and when i*- is rx^^lted caft it fuddainly into
s^vcflel ^ioiort tall of diitiilcu^^vmeper wherein
(alt Armoniack hath hfen (".'Molvpd anH thus melt
at and call it in three tirac' , '^cu pour otf che vi-
neger from the Calxof ih(? Atitimony and drie
it well and grind it fmall and <f iirolvc it_as befor^^
IS taught, and fo have you the Rtd Lion of tha
ghilofophers Lead or Antiaony.

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