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To fix ☽ into ☉; given me by an Intimate Friend, who told me that he wrought it as followeth, taking his hints out of Lul∣ly's Experiments.
HE made a Mercurial {water}, as he teacheth, by his Vessel with three Bouls in three Furnaces (which Mercurial {water} will return again into running ☿ after a little digestion) and to this he put some pure white Salt of Tartar, and some ☿ {precipi}tate, that had been {precipi}tated by it self with three or four Months digestion, and some Calx of ☽ exceedingly well opened, and very subtil: This he di∣gested a good while, and drew off the {water}, and cohobated several times, after which he did put some Tincture of ♂ unto it, and digested and cohobated anew; and in the end he found almost all the ☽ converted into ☉, that endureth all Tryals, but it was a little pale. In Lully you may find Directi∣ons to make all the things that were used in this Work. The Salt of Tartar, was but the fixed, reduced to its highest purity; but it should have been Volatilised, and make to pass over with the Mercurial {water}, to acuate and animate it. He believeth the great Work is to be made with a Mercurial {water}, animated with a Volatile Salt of Tartar, to