I. CErtissimum igitur est in arte ista, quod Ani∣ma haec extracta à Corporibus, elevari non potest, nisi per ap∣positionem rei volatilis, quae est sui generis.
II. Per quam Corpora red∣duntur volatilia & spiritualia,
Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ...
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- Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ...
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- Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
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- 1692.
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"Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60662.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.
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sese elevando, subtiliando, & sublimando, contra naturam propriam, corpoream, gravem & ponderosam.
III. Et hoc modo fiunt non Corpora, & quinta essentia, de natura Spiritus, quae vocatur Avis Hermetis, & Mercurius extractus à servo rubeo.
IV. Et sic remanent inferi∣us partes terrestres, aut potius grossiores Corporum, quae per∣fectissimè non possunt solvi ullo ingeniorum modo.
V. Et fumus ille albus, album illud aurum, id est, haec quintessentia, dicitur etiam magnesia composita quae conti∣net ut Homo, vel composita est ut Homo, ex Corpore, Anima, & Spiritu.
VI. Corpus ejus est terra Solaris fixa, plusquam subtilis∣sima,
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per vim Aquae nostrae divinae ponderositer elevata.
VII. Anima ejus est Tin∣ctura Solis & Lunae, proce∣dens excommunicatione horum duoruns.
VIII. Spiritus verò, est virtus mineralis amborum & aquae, quae defert animam, five tincturam albam super Corpora, & ex corporibus, si∣cut portatur tinctura tincto∣rum, per aquam supra pan∣num.
IX. Et ille spiritus Mer∣curialis, est vinculum animae Solaris, & corpus Solare, est 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 continens cum Luna spiritum, & animam.
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X. Spiritus ergo penetrat, corpus figit, anima copulat, tingit & dealbat.
XI. Ex his tribus simul unitis fit lapis noster, id est, ex Sole, Luna & Mercurio.
XII. Cum ergo aqud nostra aurea, extrahitur natura om∣nem superans naturam, ideo∣que nisi corpora per aquam hanc diruantur, imbibantur, teran∣tur, parce & diligenter regan∣tur, donec ab spissitudine ab∣strahantur, & in tenuem spi∣ritum, & impalpabilem ver∣tantur, vacuus est labor.
XIII. Quia nisi corpora vertantur in non corpora, id est, in Mercurium Philosopho∣rum, nondum operis rogula in∣venta est.
XIV. Et illud ideo quoni∣am impossibile est illam tenuis∣simam
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animam omnem in se tincturam habentem à corpori bus extrahere, nisi prius resol∣vantur in aqua nostra.
XV. Solve ergo corpora in aurea aqua, & decoque quous∣que tota egrediatur tinctura per aquam in colorem album sive in oleum album, cumque vide ris illam albedinem super aquam, scias tunc corpora esse lique∣facta.
XVI. Continua ergo decccti onem donec pariant nebulam quam conceperunt tenebrosam, nigram & albam.