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.

134. The Spirit of Universal Mercury acuated with the Sulphur and Salt of Luna of Basilius. Libr. partic. in particul. Lunae.

THe Sulphur of Luna being extracted and edulcorated, dry the remainder of the Calx of Luna, to which pour the same Corrosive Water of Honey, that you used for the Salt of Sol, digest gently the space of four or five days, that the Salt of the Luna may be extracted, which you will know by the Whiteness of the Menstruum. All the Salt being extracted, draw off the Water of Honey, edul∣corate the Salt, distilling and clarifying it with the Spirit of (Philosophical) Wine. The remainder left in extracting the Salt of the Luna edulcorate, and dry, then pour the Spirit of Tartar to it, digest fifteen days, and proceed as with the Gold, and you will have the Mercury of Luna (of which in the Second Book, for here we use it not.) The said Salt of Luna hath excellent Virtues for the Body of Man, of which I shall treat in a place more convenient. In the mean time the efficacy of the Salt and Sulphur of Luna you will learn by the Process following. Take the Lazurine Sulphur of Luna, dissolved in the Spirit of (Philosophical) Wine (rectified) and coagulated; put it in a Cucurbit, pour to it

double the quantity of the Spirit of Mercury made of the White Spirit of Vitriol: In like manner take the Salt of Lu∣na extracted and clarified, which mix with three times the quantity of the Spirit of Mercury, lute both the Glasses, and digest gently in Balneo the space of eight days and nights; have a care that none of the Sulphur and Salt be lost, but let them be in the same quantity as they were separated from the Silver. Putrifaction being ended, mix both Dissolutions and distil, &c.

He sometimes acuated this Spirit without Metallick Salt, and Sulphurs only thus: