Secrets reveal'd, or, An open entrance to the shut-palace of the King containing the greatest treasure in chymistry never yet so plainly discovered / composed by a most famous English-man, styling himself anonymus or Eyræneus Philaletha cosmopolita ... ; published for the benefit of all Englishmen by W.C., Esq., a true lover of art and nature.

CHAP. 32. The Imbibition of the Stone.

I Know that many Authors do take Fermentation in this Work for the in∣ternal invisible Agent, which they call Ferment, by whose virtue the fugitive and subtile Spirit, without laying on of hands, are of their own accord thicken∣ed; and our forementioned way of Fer∣mentation they call Cibation with Bread and Milk, so Ripley; but I (not using to cite other Authors, nor yet to swear to their words in a thing which I my self know as well as they) have followed my own judgement in my Writings. There is then another Operation, by which our Stone is increased in weight more than virtue: Take of thy {sulphur}, white or red, and to three parts of the {sulphur} add a fourth part of the water, and after a little blackness, in six or seven dayes de∣coction, thy water newly added shall be increased or thickened, like unto thy {sulphur}; then add another fourth part, not in respect of the whole Compound, which

is now increased a fourth part by the first Imbibition; but in reference to thy first {sulphur} as thou tookest it at first, which being dryed add another fourth part, and let it be congealed with a convenient fire, then put to it two parts of the water in reference to the three parts of the {sulphur} which thou tookest at first, before the first Imbibition, and in this proportion, imbibe and congeal three other times, at last add five parts of water in the se∣venth Imbibition, still remembering to reckon the water in reference to the {sulphur} as it was taken at first; seal thy Vessel, and in a fire like to the former make thy Compound pass through all the foresaid Regimens, which will be done in one moneth, and then thou hast the true Stone of the third order; of which one part will fall on a thousand, and teyn perfectly.

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