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SUblime ☿ three or four times with Salt, Nitre, and Vitriol; then dissolve it in A. F. and digest, then by distillations and cohobations, unite the Salts Armoniac of the A. F. to which (to have it more Pow∣erful) you may put an eighth part of {sal armoniac}: Distill and cohobate so often, till the ☿ comes
to be like Wax, and that it dissolveth easily in humido. Then dissolve this matter per deliquium, that it may attract the {water} which is contained in the Air: Put this Liquor in∣to a small Cucurbite, joyn its Head and Re∣cipient, and digest with very gentle {fire} with a Lamp. Nothing will come over during fifteen days, but afterwards, there will come over an AEthereal Liquor, which is the {water} of Paradise: Two drops of this {water} put into &ounce;iv. of S. V. is an excellent Medicine against the Pox, for it is the Planet ☿. The Dose is one spoonful. The Physical Stone is made of this Virginal, or Astral Milk, to wit, distill its flegm, in a small Cucurbite, with the same Lamp {fire}, and the Gluten or Mineral Gum will remain in the bottom; of which by digestion is made the Physical or Medicinal Stone. But note, that if you add ☉, the Operation is sooner accomplished. Note also, that if you cast one drop of this {water} of Paradise upon a thin Plate of ♀, or of ♂, it will penetrate and whiten it through and through, before it is fermented with ☉. Note also, that that which remaineth after the distillation, will serve also. If you would then make a Stone, different from that which is made with the Virginal Milk only, pro∣ceed thus: After you have distilled the {water} of Paradise, distill over with a gentle {fire} in
Ashes what remaineth, and you shall have a white Oyl; then force over the remaining part in a Retort, and you shall have a red Oyl; cast away the remaining feces. Take one part of the red Oyl, and four parts of the white Oyl, and eight parts of the {water} of Paradise, put them into a Matrass, and di∣gest them in an Athanor until all the colours appear one after another, and that the Glu∣ten be fixed into white. If then you aug∣ment the {fire}, it will become a red Medicine, of which you may make Projection thus: Take an hundred parts of ☿, heat it in a Crucible, and cast upon it one part of this fixt Medicine, and all will be a Medicine; whereof cast one part upon another hundred parts of ☿, stirring it with a stick; then melt them together. Cast one part of this Medicine upon an hundred parts of ☿, and all will be converted into ☽ or ☉, ac∣cording to the Tincture. In this manner, all Metals and Minerals may be reduced in∣to Tinctures by their {water} of Paradise, &c. Note, That this Work may be done also with ☿ dissolved in A. F. and Precipitated with Spirit of Salt; the Calx dryed and united with Calx of ♃ and {antimony}, and thence the Volatile Crystals, or Butter extracted, wherewith you may proceed as was said:
Or, you may make also a {water} of Paradise, made with ♃ per deliquium.