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BUt when as we have by our Art exal∣ted Gold from an unary to a mille∣nary perfection, and advanced it from its gross corpulency to a Spiritual Tincture, which is unfading, and of all Sublunary
things the most durable, then out of this so glorious and triumphant in an uni∣versal virtue, we do make an Oyl so cal∣led by us, (though it be permiscible by mixture in any Liquor) which Oyl is the very Tree of Life, which prevails and triumphs over all the Miseries in the world. For it is not Metallum, but transcending all Metalline things: This Tincture is extracted out of Gold, not as Tinctures are drawn by the Sal Circula∣tum of Paracelsus, but by an universal changing of the Sickness of the Metalline off-spring, into a true posture of Health; by which means it is able to heal all Me∣talline Bodies from their Leprosie, and being resolved by its own Vegetable Hu∣midity, which is our first Menstrue, circu∣lated till the Water have a ferment from the Bodies, and the Bodies from the Wa∣ter, it will give a Spiritual Tincture, sparkling like the flame, to tast most sweet, to smell most pleasant, the most incomparable Treasure of the whole World.