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.

Another Vegetable Sal Armoniack by the Accurtation of Lully. Lib. de materia Vegetabili in practica septima.

TAke the best red Wine, distil the ardent Spirit, according to Art, so as to burn Cotton, after that the Phlegm, up∣on the matter remaining in the bottom of the Alembick, being thick as liquid Pitch, pour the Phlegm half a foot above it, let it boyl three Hours, decant the tinged Phlegm, pour on other, re∣peating

so oft, till no more will be tinged, if you have not Phlegm enough, you must draw off the tinged Phlegms in Balneo, which being evaporated, a Vegetable Oyl will remain in the bottom of the Glass, the tincture being drawn out of the Phlegm, the mat∣ter will remain like a dry Earth, upon this dry Earth pour of the ardent Spirit the height of four Fingers, let it boyl two Hours, that which is in the mean time distill'd pour again to the Earth, let it settle two Hours, then decant the animated Spirit from the Spirit or Soul of the Earth, pour new Spirit upon the Earth, doing as before, three times: The Earth being black and calci∣ned, put into a Glass with a long Neck, and pour the Vegetable Oyl (aforesaid) to it, digest in Ashes ten days, then decant, and put it into an Alembick, to which add a fourth part of the ardent Spirit animated, digest in a vaporous Balneo for twenty four Hours, then continue the superaddition of the other three parts of the animated Spirit every twenty four Hours, then distil away the superfluous, insipid, and useless Liquor gently by Ashes, and augmenting the Fire by degrees, sublime the Volatile Salt, &c.

Hitherto of the various preparations of Vegetable Sal Armoni∣acks. We will now proceed to the other part of the Coelum Vinosum, namely, the several ways of reducing these Salts into a liquid sub∣stance. The Adepts did for the most part distil through an Alembick one part of Vegetable Sal Armoniack with three parts of the Aqua ardens, to which Liquor they added again one part of the aforesaid Salt, and distill'd, and that they repeated three, and sometimes four times, to make the weight of the Salt and Water equal; for the great∣er the quantity of the same Salt, the stronger is the quality of the Menstruum, then lastly they circulated the Menstruum, thereby to make it more pure and excellent: But though this Method was more in use among the Adepts, yet either their curiosity or sedulity found out also other ways; so instead of the Aqua ardens, wherewith they prepared the Vegetable Sal Armoniack, as well as the Men∣struum, they sometimes took Aqua ardens circulated, or the Heaven, or Essence of Philosophical Wine, described in Numb. 1. It is thus done,