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The thrice Noble Water of Paradise, or Apol∣lo Medens.

DIstill the fiery and Volatile Crystals from ☿ of ☽, with Calx of Iupiter, which keep. Dissolve ☉ in Spirit of Salt, which joyn with equal parts of your Crystals; di∣gest, and then distill, the Spirit of Salt will come over immediately first, then will fol∣low the red Crystals: Expose this Terrestrial ☉ to the Coelestial, that it may satisfie it self with its Solary Rays, and then dissolve it self into a Liquor, which will be a Mag∣net and an Amaranth AEthereal and immor∣tal. Put this Solary and Lunary Liquor into a Glass Cucurbite, and distill with a Lamp {fire} this Noble, Metalline, Radical moisture, those invisible Rays of the ☉, or this {water} of Paradise, during fourty or fifty days. This {water} is {water} of Nature, an Excel∣lent Attractive, and its Power is ineffable. This {water} drives out all Maladies, and com∣forts Nature, and is a Royal Medicine; for 'tis the astrum of the ☉, or a ☉ between the Terrestrial and Coelestial ☉. Of this is Apollo furens; for its Rays, or its {water} killeth ☿, which they convert into true ☉, as also all

other Metals. In this Liquor you may dis∣solve ☉ if you will, but it will not be ne∣cessary; for when it is freed of its flegm, the Solary Gluten remains, which you may di∣gest per se, until it acquire a purple colour. Thus ☉ is exalted to make a Tincture. The {water} of Paradise is the AEthereal Aurum pota∣bile; dissolve two drops thereof in &ounce;iv. of S.V. the Dose is ʒij. This is the {water} of Na∣ture, which is multiplyed ad infinitum by new addition of the Gluten, &c. Note, That when this Panacea is fixed, it is the Panacea of Panacea's, which Cureth Mala∣dies, both in Men and Metals.

Note, That this {water} of Paradise converts all Metals into ☉, if you digest their Plates in the same; yea, one drop thereof pene∣trates a Plate of ☽, and transmuteth it into most fine ☉. There is also made another A∣pollo Mede^ns, which is joyned with Spirituous Regulus of {antimony}, to wit, the Flowers reduced, or fiery Regulus, and conjoyned in the Sul∣phurous Sal Enixe, and both Precipitated into an Aureal Antimonial Panacea. But this Panacea is not comparable to the other. Apollo furens is the same {water} of Paradise, the which are the invisible Solary Rays, by which the Volatility of ☿ is killed, and is converted into ☉; and the same it is with the Solary {water}. Apollo Moriens is the Eclipse of the ☉

in the above-mentioned fiery and AEthereal Menstruums: For in all sorts of Menstruums it putrifies, groweth black, and maturates in the space of fifteen days: But after that, it resuscitates before the Judge Apollo resusci∣tans.