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.

45. The incalcinated Menstruum of Lully. In Experim. 34.

TAke common Mercury, brought out of Spain in Skins seal'd with a Spanish Seal, to prevent Sophistication, force it through a fine Skin, then take the Mercurial Water, extracted from Mercury by the Magistery, as we taught you in the Ex∣periment of three Vessels, as you know, and so dissolve the Mer∣cury; being all dissolv'd, draw the Water from it by Balneo, and in the bottom of the Vessel will the Mercury remain in the Form of an Oyl: This therefore we will use to be incerated (circulated rather) into our Heaven or our coelificated Menstruum: Take therefore four Pounds of the coelificated Menstruum (the Vegetable Heaven described in the Fifth Kind in Numb. 17.) and

one Pound of the aforesaid Mercury reduced into Oyl, and joyn them together, then will you have at length the incalcinated Menstruum, with which you will dissolve the two Luminaries, preserving their Form, and not only preserving it, but also pro∣pagating it in infinitum.

The Receipt of this Menstruum is plain, yet must we declare what he means by the Mercurial Water extracted by the Magistery of three Vessels, the Description of which Menstruum we read thus;