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TAke &ounce;ss. of your Calx of ☉ prepared and attenuated, as was said, put it in a Glass Mortar, and pour upon it &ounce;iij. of the Solary ☿; the ☿ will suddenly swallow up its Body, as one drop of {water} mixeth it self with another; then squeeze out so much ☿ of this aaa, that there remain but about two parts
of ☿ with the ☉. Put this aaa in a Philo∣sophical Egg, and pour upon it by little and little of your Oyl of ☉ before-mentioned, hold it over a gentle {fire}, and stir the Matter with an Iron Rod, that all may well mix and incorporate, pouring on so much of the said Oyl, that it be of the consistence of thin Mustard, and then you shall suddenly see marvellous things, when the Soul of the said ☉ (which is its Oyl) entreth into the Body of the ☉, by means of the Spirit, which is the Solary ☿, and that by means of the said Soul, the Spirit uniteth with its Body, of three being made one; stop the Vessel speedily, because of the fumes. The Body of the ☉ which was dead before, being by this only and admirable means animated, dig∣nified, and filled with a Vegetative Life, will thereby acquire an inward Power of Multiplication, as well as the Sperms and Seeds of all Animals and Vegetables, and be made fit to grow and produce Fruit, (being sowed in a fit Earth) which it could not do before, because of that default. The Vessel being Sealed Hermetically, put it in Ashes in a brass Vessel in the shape of half a boul; digest it with a Lamp {fire}. As for the time, and the colours, mark what Trevesan saith of it; for at the end of fourty days you shall see the blackness: Continue the first
degree of heat to whiteness, which will appear within four Months: Then augment the {fire}, and continue until it come to be of a Citrine colour, and then there will be no more danger. Increase the {fire} to the fourth degree, and continue that, till your King ta∣keth his Robe, and that the Matter suffer Ignition without smoaking.
Hartman.) This Process was sent to Sir K. D. in a Letter from Paris, by Abbot Bou∣caud, with the following words. Sir, I have sent you here inclosed a great Work upon ♄, which Monsieur de Rouviere hath given me; it cometh from a Man who ha∣ving been carried away, and kept close in a Castle, made at last his escape, and was con∣ducted to the Duke D'Elboeuf, and Mon∣sieur de Rouviere found the said Process un∣der his Boulster.