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.

31. Coelum Vegetabile of Lully Circulated. Lib. de materia Vegetabili in practica quinta.

TAke the best white Wine, distil the ardent Spirit till it burns Cotton; put this Spirit into a Circulatory two thirds empty, strengthen the Mouth with Wax, and Bury it in hot Dung, with its Mouth downward, for the Spirit to be circula∣ted and digested the space of forty five Days, or till it swims above more pure and clear, (in the Form of an Oyl, see the Hea∣ven, or Essence of Philosophical Wine, in Numb. 1.) having seen this sign, take out the Glass warily, and with a Needle perforate the Wax, that the impure may flow out, then suddenly turn up the Circulatory, that the pure or more fine may remain, which we call the ardent Spirit circulated, which is of a most delicious Sent: now take the residue, from which the Spirit of Wine was drawn, and distil the Phlegm; and upon the matter remaining like melted Pitch, pour the said Phlegm, so as to swim four Fin∣gers above it, digest two days in Balneo, decant the tinged Phlegm, and pour on other, and that repeat so often, till the Phlegm will be no more tinged, which is a thing useless in this operation: Now the Earth calcine in a Reverberatory, pulve∣rize, put it in an Alembick, and imbibe with an eighth part of the ardent Spirit circulated, digest in Balneo, and distil some cer∣tain superfluous moisture by Ashes: continue this imbibition, digestion, and distillation, till the Earth be impregnated with the dry Spirit, which was in the ardent Spirit circulated, of which the sign will be, if it doth almost all evaporate, being a little of it cast upon a red hot Plate: This impregnated Earth being put into a Sublimatory, sublime according to Art into a Volatile Salt, which digest in Balneo two days and more, with six parts of the ardent Spirit circulated, decant the dissolution gently, and if any thing remain undissolved, proceed with it as before, this dissolution circulate thirty days, and it will be a Quintessence to be compared in Virtue with the Aurum potabile of the Ancients.

As these Menstruums are made either weaker or stronger accord∣ing

to the variety of weight, so also are they more or less pure, by longer, or shorter, or altogether neglected circulation, for some Men∣struums there are of this kind, which the Adepts circulated not: For an Example take the following.