CHAP. VII. Of the Spirit of ♃.

OF the spirit of Jupiter, we are to know, that it is derived of a white and pale substance of fire; but it is of a frangible and brittle nature, not enduring the hammer, so as Mars: wherefore it is a brittle Metal: an example thereof appears, if it be mixed with the Moon, it can hardly be wrought to its first malleation, without great la∣bour: the same effect it hath in all other Metals, except in Saturn onely. And the same operation which it hath in the bodies of metals, it also produceth the same effects in humane bodies; but burneth & corrodeth the members, hindring them from their own perfect operations, thereby disa∣bling them form performing the work which na∣ture requires, & necessitates them unto. Neverthe∣less, this spirit hath in it this virture, that it tak∣eth away the ulcers of cancers, fistula's and such like, especially such as exceed not the degree of its nature which God and Nature have given unto it.