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I. THE whole, then, of this Antimonial Se∣cret is, That we know how by it to extract or draw forth Argent Vive, out of the Body of Magnesia, not burning, and this is Antimo∣ny, and a Mercurial Sub∣limate.
II. That is, you must ex∣tract a living and incom∣bustible Water, and then congeal, or coagulate it with the perfect body of Sol, i. e.
fine Gold, without allay; which is done by dissolving it into a nature and white Substance, of the consistency of Cream, and made throughly white.
III. But first this Sol by putrefaction and resolution in this Water, loseth all its light or brightness, and will grow dark and black; after∣wards it will ascend above the Water, and by little and little will swim upon it, in a substance of a white colour.
IV. And this is the white∣ning of Red Laton, to sub∣lime it philosophically, and to reduce it into its first Mat∣ter, viz. into a white in∣combustible Sulphur, and into a fixed Argent Vive.
V. And so the fixed moi∣sture, to wit, Gold, our Bo∣dy, by the reiterating of the Liquifaction or Disso∣lution in this our dissolving Water, is changed and re∣duced into fixed Sulphur, and fixed Argent Vive.
VI. Thus the perfect bo∣dy of Sol, resumeth Life in
this Water; it is revived, inspired, grows, and is mul∣tiplied in its kind, as all o∣ther things are.
VII. For in this Water, it so happens, that the bo∣dy compounded of two bo∣dies, viz. Sol and Luna, is puffed up, swells, putrefies, is raised up, and does in∣crease by receiving from the Vegetable and animated Nature and Substance.
VIII. Our Water also, or Vinegar aforesaid, is the Vinegar of the Mountains, i. e. of Sol and Luna; and therefore it is mixed with Gold and Silver, and sticks close to them perpetually; and the body receiveth from this Water a white Tincture, and shines with an inestima∣ble brightness.
IX. Who so therefore knows how to convert, or change the body into a me∣dicinal white Gold, may easily by the same white Gold, change all imperfect Metals into the best and finest Silver.
X. And this white Gold is called by the Philosophers Luna alba Philosophorum, Ar∣gentum vivum album fixum, Aurum Alchymiae, and fumus albus: And therefore with∣out this our Antimonial Vi∣negar, the Aurum album of the Philosophers cannot be made.
XI. And because in our Vinegar, there is a double substance of Argentum vi∣vum, the one from Anti∣mony, the other from Mer∣cury Sublimate; it does give a double weight and sub∣stance of fixed Argent vive, and also augments therein the native colour, weight, substance, and tincture there∣of.