A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman.

An unheard-of Arcanum, or new and unheard of Lunary, wherewith is made the Elixir, or Metalline Stone.

DIssolve what quantity of ☽ you please in the Sal Androgine; in four hours time half your ☽ will be dissolved into a very red Salt, pour it into a vessel of Copper, then make a Lixivium, which filter, reduce into a body what remaineth with ♄, and re-dissolve it in new Sal Androgine as be∣fore. Reiterate this, till all your ☽ go through the filter with the Lixivium, and you will be sure to have a ☽ altogether Spi∣rituous and Volatile, which you will find to be true to your loss, if you Precipitate it with an Acid Liquor, and reduce it with ♄; for it will all fly away at the Coppel; the same will happen if it be attracted by Plates of ♀. These two effects have happened to me by inadvertence.

Note, That this Spirituous ☽ is a Poten∣tial and Spirituous ☉, as you will find, if

you rejoyn it with its body at the Coppel: There is nothing to say to that. Note, That the corporal ☽ which is added, retains all what is of the Nature of ☉, which ren∣ders it afterward in the separating {water}. There∣fore, take all these filtred Solutions (which are yellow if the Lavers be made with Odor of Metals) and Precipitate them totally in∣to a Lunary Sulphur of a Golden colour, adding a sufficient quantity of that which Precipitates it: That which Precipitates it is of our invention, and is of the Saturnian Juice, which swims upon the ☿ of ♄, when its Solution is repercuted by the Salt {water}. Dry this Lunary Golden Precipitate gently, and mix it with ana of Calx of ♃, made per se in the {water}; or if you will, you may draw the Butter or fiery Crystals with ana of {antimony}; the Crystals are resolved per se in the Air. And with this unheard-of Magnet are Mira∣culously attracted the Influences of the Stars, or the {water} of Nature. This is chiefly done in the belly of ♈ that is to say, in the Month of April and May. Note here a very great Secret, which is, that there is no flegm attracted by this Magnet, but onely the pure Nutriment of Life, or the fiery vi∣••al Viand which is hidden in the centre of the Air; which you will find true, if you put some waterish part into this Liquor; for

you shall see that it will not mix with it in any wise, but will swim upon it in an hete∣rogene form, as Milk: You must further sepa∣rate this Liquor, which is the simple Lunary, in which ☉ is easily dissolved: For from this corporal Lunary you must have a Spiritual and unheard-of Lunary. Put then this Liquor in a Glass Cucurbite with its Head and Reci∣pient, and digest in Ashes with a very gentle heat by a Lamp the space of one Philoso∣phical Month. Nothing will distill over during the first fifteen days, or more; but it will become a red Sea, and the Matter will maturate, and after that, you shall see that by this gentle heat the Metalline Soul will mount invisibly upon the wings of the Wind, or the Spirit of the World, and will fall into the Recipient in the form of Tears, which are the Tears of Diana. This Li∣quor is much more precious than pure ☉, and of very great vertue. Continue the dissolution, whilst the Archaeus of Nature chaseth it, which is done in fifteen days a•• the farthest. In this Operation is done, wha•• Hermes saith, thou shalt separate, the sub•••••• from the Spirit gently, and with great dex∣terity. This distillation is altogether Na∣tural, and is perfected by the only Archaeus of Nature. This Liquor is the Spiritual Lu∣nary, which contains in it self Body, Spirit

and Soul; 'tis the {water} of Paradise, the Lunar Sphere, the Metalline Fountain, and the Universal Metalline Menstruum. It is a most certain anti-epileptick and Cephalick: If one or two drops of it are mixt with ℥iv. of S. V. all will become like Milk. For it is all {fire}; which changes the moist Element of the S. V. as being contrary to it, or at least not connatural.