Paracelsvs of the [brace] chymical transmutation, genealogy and generation [brace] of metals & minerals.: Also, of the urim and thummim of the Jews. With an appendix, of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge. The second part of the mumial treatise. Whereunto is added, philosophical and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymvnd Lvlly; containing, the right and due composition of both elixirs. The admirable and perfect way of making the great stone of the philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England, by the said Raymund Lully, in the time of King Edw. 3. / Translated into English by R. Turner philomathēs.

To draw the Spirits out of the ponderous Body or Earth by Distillation.

MAke a great many plates of new Lead of the quantity of Groats, as thin as a peny; and hang them on a thred, or small Wyre, and fill a Body of Glass full of them, and fasten the Thred above the mouth of the Vessel: set there∣on a Head, and lute it fast and surely, and put thereto a Receptory, and put it in a Furnace with as easie a heat, that you may alwayes suffer your hand under the bottom thereof, and water shall distil every day from it, fait and cleer as Rose∣water: and at the last, the said Plates will wax soft,

as they were mire, and fall down to the bot∣tom: and then take the Glass, set it in Balneo or Fimo Equino, until the mire be dissolved into black Pitch Liquor: then put it into your Philo∣sophers Vessel, and mix it, and continue it in easie fire, that it may by Circulation become a dry earth as black as a Raven, which afterwards shall wax as white as Snow; the which is the white Elixir; the which you shall take from the Feces that lie there-under: for as Philosophers say, Totum quod subtile est ascendit sursum in vase, quod spissum manet in fundo.

Then put the white in a Fixatory luted up, and continue it with more Fire or heat, till it be first gray, and after that citrine as a yellow Flower; and finally, purple-red, the which is the great Elixir that fixeth all Amalgems into Medicine, which altereth all Bodies into Sol and Luna.