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CHEIRAGOGIA HELIANA.
A MANUDUCTION to the Philosopher's Magical GOLD.
BASILIUS VALENTIN a Benedictin monk, and, by his country, of the higher Alsatia, who, in the memory of our neerer ancestors, excell'd in Magick and Chymistry, in his Triumphal Cha∣riot of Antimony, pag. 242. where he treats of the Stone of Fire made of the Mercury of Antimony, writes directly to this Sense: But the Stone of Fire (sayes he) does not Tinge Universally, as the Philosophers Stone does, which is prepared out of the Essence of Gold: No assuredly. For it has not alloited to It such an Efficacy by Its Virtue: but It Tinges particular∣ly, to wit, Luna into Sol besides Saturn and Jupiter, omitting Mars and Venus, save only,