Four books of Johannes Segerus Weidenfeld concerning the secrets of the adepts, or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine : a practical work, with very great study collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy : reconciled together by comparing them one with another, otherwise disagreeing, and in the newest method so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit or sophistical preparations of animals, vegetables and minerals, whether for medicines or metals, from true, and so avoid vagabound imposters, and imaginary processes, together with the ruine of estates.

24. The Aqua Fortissima and Vertuosa of Johan∣nes de Rupescissa. Cap. 43. Lib. Essentiae.

THe most Blessed God, the Creator of Secrets, hath made so many wonderful things in Nature, that neither can our Understanding perceive, some few excepted, nor Tongue express the wonderful things of God without stammering: and among the Secrets, I will reveal to you a Water of Divine Action, and the Magistery of it, is, to take the best white Tartar calcined, and put it in an Earthen or Glass Vessel, and pour to it the best (Philosophical) Aqua Ardens you can get, put on an Alembick, and distil the Aqua Ardens very weak, then take it away, being little or nothing worth, except for washing of the Eyes or other parts: Then take you Tartar, and you will find it twice as strong, and this you may prove each time by your Tongue; put other Aqua Ardens to it again many times more, because it will be every time strengthned above measure, and you may bring it to so great a degree of strength, that no created action can be compared to it: But if you would make it a hundred times stronger, grind it, and put it upon a Porphyry or Marble, to be converted into Water, which then must be distilled through an Alembick.

There is yet another way of preparing this Vegetable Heaven, not by sublimation of the Alcali, nor cohobation, but simple Circulation, namely by digesting the Alcali of Tartar, in the Spirit of Philoso∣phical

Wine, till it swims upon the Spirit of Wine like an Ovl. It is thus done,