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.

143. The Vegetable Fire dissolved in the Calcinative Water of Lully. Pag. 363. Magiae Naturalis.

TAke of the Vegetable Water acuated (the Metallick Soul of Lully, described in Numb. 5.) one Ounce, put it in a Phial with a long Neck, into which you poured three Ounces of the Calcinative Water (the Mineral Menstruum described in Numb. 68.) and suddenly cover the Phial with its Cover, luted close with Wax, then place it well in a Balneo, the space of two Natural days, and in that time, the whole Vegetable will be converted into Clear Water.

Animadversions.

THe Adepts acuated the Spirit of Philosophical Wine di∣vers ways, and reduced it into several as well Vegeta∣ble as Mineral Menstruums in the antecedent Kinds. Now in this 24th and last Kind of Menstruums, they mix not either common Oyly or Arid, or Acid Matters, with the Ʋnctious Spirit of Philosophical Wine, as they did in the aforesaid Compositions of Menstruums, but joyn Vegetable and Mineral

Menstruums, already perfected together, in order to make Men∣struums of this Kind. The like Menstruum almost is made by Luly, and call'd