Thirdly, Add to the same Earth, the fixth part of its own animated Water; and putting on the blue Head, set in digestion for three days: and after that time, removing of the blind Head, and putting on the Alimbeck, distil the superfluous humidities.
Fourthly, Add again the fifth part of the ani∣mated Spirit to his own Earth, digest it, and by Distillation, evacuate the humidity.
Fifthly, Render the fourth part of the Soul of the Body, and digest it, and draw out the moi∣sture, as I have shewn before: and so with the fourth part of it upon the same Earth, prosecute the operation by Unvivistives, Digestion, and Distillations, till the Earth have drunk up all his animated Spirit, and both be reduced to an Homogeneal Body: then take the Earth which is withheld, and white, and put it in a Vessel of Glass, divided into three parts, which being luted, and carefully shut, must be put in a Furnace to the fire of the third degree, the space or a natural day: and so the pure part of it will be separated from the impure, and will be lifted up on high, and the impure part of the Body be left in the bottom as unprofitable, to be cast a∣way, and the pure to be gathered: and this is called by Raymund and other Philosophers, Mer∣cury sublimate, vegetable, Sal Armoniack, and set of Lunary vegetable, wherein are so many and so great vertues, that the humane tongue of man cannot express them.
Furthermore, All things being severally pre∣pared,