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.

25. Vegetable Mercury acuated with the Salt of Tartar of Lully. In Prima Camera Individuorum, dist. 3. Lib. Essen.

IN the first Chamber is signified, that our Mercury is in the power of H (crude Tartar) and in order to draw it out, the Artist must put the said H into E (that is, in a Glass-Makers Fur∣nace) three Natural Days, and there must be a great quantity of it, because but little will be made from thence, which H (Tartar now calcined) you must grind subtilly, and put it into H of Arbo∣ris Philosophical (into dissolution per deliquium) upon a Marble, in a very cold place, and covered because of dust; and H will be converted into T, (oleum per deliquium) which T must the Artist distil through a Filtre in a Glass Vessel, and the Artist having separated T from H, will be able to extract our Mercury out of the said T two ways. First, by the Magistery of the Chapter be∣ginning, Non reputes me, &c. (by Circulation like the Essence or Spirit of Wine of Lully.) Secondly, by the Magistery of the Chap∣ter, Non proetermittam (by the separation of the Elements, of which not in this place.)

Lully sometimes used the Salt of Tartar depurated instead of the Oyl of Tartar per deliquium, as in the First Experiment. You have, saith be, another sign more certain of the purification of this Individual (the Salt of Tartar) namely, when this most pre∣cious Salt will remain in the Vessel upon Fire in the Form of an Oyl, but being removed from the Fire, will suddenly be congeal∣ed. But dearest Son! Let not the Prolixity of time be irksome to you, in dissolving and congealing this Matter so often, to take away Corruption, which remaining, it can never be joyn∣ed with its Spirit extracted from the most precious, and its near∣est Individual, which is the best Wine, freed from all manner of Humidity and Corruption: Then Circulate it in a Circulating Vessel, and so reduce it into a Quintessence, and it will forth∣with embrace its Spirit: this Circulation we perform'd at first

in thirty days, but afterwards compleated the same in forty days, which Circulation was much better than the the first, because the longer it is circulated, the more is it purify'd, and adepted for any of our Physical Operations, which order when need re∣quires, you also must observe.

Menstruums of this kind may be divers ways made not only out of the Alcali of Tartar, but other fix'd Alcalies may be also taken in∣stead of that, as proves the following Menstruum.